GitHub Rebase #6
Welcome to the sixth edition of Rebase! (guaranteed 100% tryptophan free) Stats Breakdown (GitHub users definitely love their football and turkey. Check out the huge drop on 11/27!) Notably New…
Welcome to the sixth edition of Rebase! (guaranteed 100% tryptophan free) Stats Breakdown (GitHub users definitely love their football and turkey. Check out the huge drop on 11/27!) Notably New…
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…
Sorry about the delay on this one folks. Enjoy! 🙂 Stats Breakdown Notable Projects acts_like_git: Crappy name, but this Rails plugin really does some neat stuff. It allows you to…
This is a bit of old, but fun, news. Back in August we bought a full page ad spot in The Rubyist, a print and digital magazine for Ruby programmers.…
While at RubyConf this year, giving my talk and drinking like an idiot with nearly every internet-famous Rubyist out there, I had a great idea. Only my incredible humility prevents…
This week I’ve changed the graphs around quite a bit! The activity on the site just continues to increase, and surprisingly it didn’t take a hit because of RubyConf. Stats…
It looks like I’ve been enlisted as an official blogger to bring you the latest and greatest work that’s coming out of GitHub! Sit back, ogle at the graphs, and…
Yesterday we moved to a new queue, Shopify’s delayed_job (or dj). After trying a few different solutions in the early days, we settled on Ara Howard’s Bj. It was fine…
With awesome tools like GitNub and GitX adding GitHub integration, it would be great if you didn’t have to keep re-entering you username and API token. So let’s settle on…
Mozilla’s Ubiquity is pretty cool. We just pushed out support for commands in Gist If we detect that a Gist contains an Ubiquity command, we’ll add the proper markup to…
You asked for them and we listened. We now have two GitHub shirt designs for sale via rubyrags.com! The one and only, classic “Fork You” shirt is sure to turn…
The keynote I gave at the Ruby Hoedown a few weekends ago has just been posted. View the video or read the transcript. While it’s not directly related to Git,…
Called the “next killer app for Ruby,” Adhearsion has moved to GitHub. Jay Phillips, creator of Adhearsion, has a great blog post explaining the move and discussing GitHub. From the…
Bryan Helmkamp of weplay has published his team’s Git deployment workflow over on his blog. It includes a bunch of Rake tasks which we’ve Gist’d for your convenience. # by…
In the next month I will be keynoting the Ruby Hoedown (August 8-9) and speaking at erubycon(August 15-17). If you’re at either of these events stop by and say hi.…
You can now clone public repositories hosted on GitHub over HTTP. This is very slow and should only be used if the git port (9418) is blocked due to a…
The 350 GitHub t-shirts we gave away at RailsConf 2008 last weekend were a huge hit! For anyone that wasn’t there, the fronts say “fork you” and the backs say…
Chad Fowler and friends busted out the amazing gitjour this weekend at RailsConf. It’s a simple RubyGem which lets you serve and clone git repositories over Apple’s Bonjour. I’m at…
Meet the three gentlemen responsible for all your favorite GitHub bugs and features. PJ Hyett (pjhyett) is one of the two penmen behind popular Ruby and Rails tabloid rag Err…
Many users are claiming coolness boosts of 90% – 100% after installing Dr Nic’s GitHub Badge on their blog. I should know — I’m one of them. Just look at…
Last summer, before GitHub, I spent a lot of time playing with Shoes. Ruby has always been lacking in the GUI department and Shoes is a really smart, innovative, cross-platform…
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