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Okay, it’s official: let me google that for you is the new RTFM. Someone on your team asks where to download solr. Let me google that for you. Your friend…

Lately I’ve been working with submodules – specifically developing plugins / libraries as submodules within a separate project. Turns out, they’re pretty cool. I’ve written a short guide, Developing with…

Microsoft’s IronRuby is moving to GitHub.  They’ve already been here for a while, but now the main repository is officially moving. IronRuby joins Rubinius and dozens of other language…

I’ve done some serious work towards generating more accurate statistics this week. If you’re interested in how the graphs are made, check out my rebase project. I’m going to be…

Want to make sure your post-receive hook only gets called by GitHub? Post-receive URLs now support HTTP basic auth.

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying you guys are a pain in the ass. We love our users. Didn’t you get the box of chocolates we sent you?…


Vim user? Emacs true believer? Don’t feel left out – we’ve got Gist support for you too!   Vim users can grab Gist.vim (GitHub repo) while Emacsers will enjoy…

gtcaz has begun improving the Gist support in drnic’s GitHub TextMate Bundle  The Gist support was originally written by mattmatt. It uses gist.rb and supports authentication out of the…

Update: You should check eclipse.github.com instead. Using Eclipse? Interested in GitHub integration? You may be in luck with EGit and this GitHub Guide by PEZ.  If you can help…

You can now pass @–learn@ to any GitHub gem command to see the @git@ operations being run under the covers. Hot off the presses: Your browser does not support IFrames…

Now you can search GitHub repositories or code using this new Ubiquity command. Thanks bastos!

People have asked for our delayed_job god config. Welp, here it is:

One of the features I use a lot in git is ‘git blame’, which will show you who was the last person to change each line in any file in…

Edit: this feature has been replaced by https://github.com/trending You can now browse recently updated and recently created repositories for a specific language. Go nuts!