News & insights

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!

This is pretty great (and thorough): An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows.  Thanks nathanj!

YUI2 and YUI3 now join YUIDoc on GitHub.  Welcome! You can read the blog announcement with all the details.

Henrik has a great article explaining why and how to display Git’s dirty state status (along with the branch, of course) in your bash prompt. topfunky prefers a skull and…