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script.aculo.us’ Thomas Fuchs is releasing various goodies in his prototype_helpers repository. They seem to mostly be extractions from his time tracking app freckle. A great one is @defaultValueActsAsHint@, which adds…

BlogBridge looks pretty interesting: an open source, cross platform RSS reader. Their visual tour shows off many of the innovative features. And guess what? They’re hosted on GitHub: http://github.com/pitosalas/blogbridge …

The RestfulX Framework is a framework for quickly developing Adobe Flex and AIR applications. The project makes great use of GitHub Pages and the Wiki.  From the site: If…

I’ll be speaking at MeshU in Toronto on April 6th, 2009. So far the only announced speakers are myself and Ryan Singer (rjs) of 37signals. My workshop will be titled…

A bit late, but always delivered. All of the projects and people featured this week crank the volume to 11! (Stats Breakdown lost its passport on vacation, and hopefully will…

We hit two birds with one deploy today. First, some of you may have seen a very well reasoned constructive criticism of our header user block content on the 37Signals…

Compojure is a Clojure web framework similar to web.py or Sinatra. Your browser does not support IFrames The project also has a Wikibook and mailing list. Looks cool.

Old school GitHub user ivey has posted his Git Workflow. It covers small teams, large teams, and has a few tasty nuggets of knowledge thrown into the mix.  Thanks…

Parasite is a Firebug-like tool for debugging and tinkering with running GTK+ applications, hosted right here on GitHub.  From the page: You can actually modify your application logic while…

technicalpickles, author of jeweler, has posted a tutorial on his blog: Craft the perfect gem with Jeweler.  Check it out for info on how to build your own GitHub…

Now you’ll always know! technoweenie and seaofclouds have joined forces to bring us isLOSTonyet.com and isBSGonyet.com. More shows to come, they promise.  The code to both sites is hosted…

We’ve removed the Watchers tab (for good this time) and replaced it with a dedicated button in the Repo Details box. You’ll also see the number of forks the repo…

We’re now appending the gist name at the end of its raw url. That means it’s dead-simple to serve greasemonkey (or greasekit) scripts directly from gist.github.com. I was able to…

Sexy Curls is a pretty cool JavaScript effect. You can see it in action on their page.  The repo is available on GitHub.

Git ready, git set… go! Git ready is on fire, serving daily git tips for “the noob to the guru.”  Today’s tip? The staging area. Great job qrush!