GitHub availability this week
GitHub.com suffered two outages early this week that resulted in one hour and 46 minutes of downtime and another hour of significantly degraded performance. This is far below our standard…
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GitHub Enterprise 11.10.280 Release
We're excited to announce the latest release of GitHub Enterprise. We've been working hard to bring you the most recent features from GitHub.com, and we're shipping this version with our…
New Issues and Gist API
One of the first requests we received after launching Issues 2.0 was API support. Today, we are launching the documentation for API v3, with support for all of the new…
New Organizations API
I pushed the new Organization API documentation today. You can now access and modify Organization and Team information for your repositories. The Org API managed to test the limits of…
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…
GitHub Rebase #41
git rebase --interactive --onto edition-41 Lots of projects this week folks, keep them coming! Like always I'm more than welcome to consider user submissions to Rebase. Let me know about…
Announcing Ernie 2.0 and 2.1
Over the past few months I've been working on a major new version of Ernie, the RPC server I wrote to power GitHub's sharded file server architecture. As a reminder,…
GitHub Rebase #30
This is the second of many themed Rebases to come...our first was the book edition. In related news, the column has also been going on for over a year now!…
GitHub Rebase #29
Time to get your Rebase on! Send me a message about your project if you want to see it featured here, and please check out the Rebase howto as well.…
Unicorn!
We've been running Unicorn for more than a month. Time to talk about it. What is it? Unicorn is an HTTP server for Ruby, similar to Mongrel or Thin. It…
Revenge of the double billing
As I'm sure you're aware, Monday morning's billing batch processed twice. As soon as we realized this we ran a batch to void the duplicate transactions. We thought this solved…
Deployment Script Spring Cleaning
Better late than never, right? As we get ready to upgrade our servers I thought it'd be a good time to upgrade our deployment process. Currently pushing out a new…
GitHub Rebase #23
It's Rebase time once again! Featured Project clojure is a functional programming language based on Lisp that runs on the Java Virtual Machine. It recently hit a pretty huge milestone…
GitHub Rebase #18
First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it... Yes, git branch doesn't take a @-b@ flag. Sidewalk and chalk doesn't edit easily. Featured Project synapse Oh, you…
Three20: iPhone UI Goodness
The venerable @joehewitt has release Three20, a handful of UI extractions from the Facebook iPhone app. His announcement blog post details the libraries it contains, shows some demos, and explains…
GitHub Rebase #14
Want to get on Rebase? Find out how. Stats Breakdown Featured Project dynomite is an open-source Erlang implementation of Amazon's Dynamo, a distributed key-data storage that strives for high availability.…
GitHub Rebase #13
@$ git rebase --continue@ Stats Breakdown Thanks to Feedzirra, the stats are back! Featured Project visor adds a system-wide hotkey that can bring up your terminal, much like games that…
Using Input Values as Hints
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…
GitHub Rebase #10
And we're back! Rebase went on a bit of hiatus, but it has returned in full force for 2009. Read on for the latest and greatest coming out of GitHub!…
Git over Bonjour
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…
Myspace for hackers?
rtomayko says GitHub is 'Myspace for Hackers' over on his blog. Flattering, yes, but read closely: this dude gets it. From his post: "Pull requests" happen every day over email…