Sidejack Prevention Phase 3: SSL Proxied Assets
This is the third, and hopefully final, response to session hijacking on github.com. We’ve been safe from session hijacking for a while now but we were still serving pages with…
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The library
A comprehensive archive with older product announcements, company updates, guides, tutorials, and other blogs from GitHub. Consider the library a repository of historical GitHub information where you can explore the evolution of GitHub’s tools and features over time (like the pull request!).
New uploader & downloads screen
Update: Uploads have been deprecated Not too long ago we rolled out the one true downloads button, but unfortunately the Downloads page was still left unattended. Well, today we’re rolling…
Sirron Norris Octocat GelaSkins
A few months ago I contacted one of my favorite local San Francisco artists, Sirron Norris, to see if he would create a custom piece for us featuring the Octocat,…
Sidejack Prevention Phase 2: SSL Everywhere
Last Tuesday, we rolled out a secure cookies for all SSL-protected pages. This meant that all private repositories, user dashboards, all admin settings (even for free users and repositories) were…
New! I [octocat] Code Shirt
Here at GitHub we take our t-shirts seriously. So far we’ve produced the world famous “fork you” shirt, and the sold-out limited edition “all your rebase are belong to us”…
Sidejack Prevention
A Firefox plugin called Firesheep was released this week that makes it easy to capture and exploit other user’s HTTP session cookies sent over insecure connections on untrusted networks. This…
Basho moves Riak to GitHub
I’d like to welcome Basho, the makers of Riak, to GitHub. Mark Phillips posted to the Riak mailing list that they have started developing Riak and their other projects primarily…
GitHub Meetup: Rio de Janeiro
We’ll be holding a GitHub Drinkup on Tuesday October 19th at 20:00 at Botequim Informal Leblon in Rio de Janeiro. Come have a beer and get some GitHub stickers! (Thanks…
GitHub South America
GitHub will be visiting South America this month! If you’re attending any of these conferences, say hi to the GitHubbers attending — either defunkt, schacon, or both, as indicated by…
GitHub Meetup SF #22
We’re getting back into the swing of meetups and would love it if you would join us this Thursday, October 14th at Thee Parkside. Its supposed to be a beautiful…
Hibernate on GitHub
We’d like to welcome Hibernate to GitHub, and more importantly, Git! Migrating an old subversion repository is no small task. Hibernate is a suite of tools providing relational persistence for…
Job Seekers: Spotlight on CrowdFlower
In our quest to make GitHub Jobs a great place for job seekers and employers we’re rolling out a new feature: Company Spotlights. What are they? Short interviews with awesome…
All of your downloads. One big button.
Update: Uploads have been deprecated A couple of weeks ago, downloads on GitHub were everywhere — we had the Download Source buttons, the Downloads tab, and, some clicks away, perhaps…
Ruby and Rails EU, October 21-22
The Ruby and Rails European Conference is being held on October 21-22nd at Pakhuis De Zwijger in Amsterdam. Also, Corey Haines is putting on another Code Retreat on the 23rd.…
Business Time
GitHub’s very own Eston Bond designed some awesome business cards. And yes, that’s an embossed octocat.
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