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GitHub Rebase #38

Welcome to Rebase 38. Suggestions for projects to cover are always welcome, check out the criteria here. In the meantime, check out this preview of some neat visualizations using the…

Nick Quaranto
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GitHub Rebase #35

Rebase: good for reorganizing commits, squashing down changesets, and repairing dentures. Featured Project vanity is an experiment driven development framework for Ruby on Rails that uses A/B Testing to maximize…

Nick Quaranto
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GitHub Rebase #34

It's time for Rebase #34! As always, suggestions are welcome if you have a neat project you'd like to show off. Featured Project jquery is a cross-browser JavaScript library that…

Nick Quaranto
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TinyMCE on GitHub

TinyMCE, an HTML WYSIWYG editor written in JavaScript, has moved to GitHub: http://github.com/tinymce img http://img.skitch.com/20100115-m19rkf3wb3panm2fhnw5gb6h9u.png http://github.com/tinymce Their announcement lists the main reasons they chose GitHub: Community Speed Ease of access…

Chris Wanstrath
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Erlang/OTP now on GitHub

img http://erlang.org/images/erlang-logo.png I'm pleased to announce that GitHub now hosts an official Git version of Erlang/OTP. The core Erlang team states: Beginning with this release [R13B03] we will maintain (and…

Tom Preston-Werner
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TypePad Developer Platform

Today blogging company Six Apart released their TypePad Developer Platform. It's been covered on TechCrunch and on the TypePad blog, but the reason I'm writing is they've put GitHub front…

Chris Wanstrath
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GitHub Contest Winners

The results have been tallied and the curtains have closed. The 2009 GitHub Contest prize of a Large account and a bottle of 20 year Pappy Van Winkle goes to…

Scott Chacon
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Pro Git Book

For about the last 8 months, I've been working on a side project. In November, Apress contacted me about writing a book about Git and I thought it would be…

Scott Chacon
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Grails Internals Handbook

Inspired by the Merb Internals Handbook, the Grails community has begun working on a handbook of their own: The Grails Internals Handbook. From the README: If you want to contribute,…

Chris Wanstrath
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GitHub Rebase #22

This week it's Rebase Book Edition! There's plenty of documentation projects going on at GitHub, and it's about time they got some attention. Clone yourself a copy, head outside with…

Nick Quaranto
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Hg-Git Mercurial Plugin

We hear from a number of people who are using Mercurial for their projects but want to host them on GitHub because they want their project to benefit from the…

Scott Chacon
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Documentation Explosion

RDoc.info is a web service that generates and hosts documentation for your favorite GitHub-hosted Ruby libraries and Rails plugins. Just add a post-commit hook to your project and it'll take…

Nick Quaranto
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GitHub Rebase #20

Yet another Sunday, yet another Rebase! Featured Project compass makes CSS not suck. It's a flexible CSS meta-framework that ties together the power of SASS (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets) and…

Nick Quaranto
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Amanda!

Amanda developer @djmitche writes: I'm a developer of Amanda, which has been around and open source for over 15 years, but has always had a fairly small development community. We're…

Chris Wanstrath
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GitHub Rebase #16

It's time for another Rebase! Let's get started. (Want to get noticed? Here's how to improve your chances) Featured Project selectorgadget is the swiss-army knife of embeddable bookmarks. It can…

Nick Quaranto
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Gruber Gets It

From Daring Fireball: One thing I’m noticing about GitHub is that it seems to be the first open source community through which multiple forks of the same project feed back…

Chris Wanstrath
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Scripting Bioclipse

Bioclipse (a Java-based, open source, visual platform for chemo- and bioinformatics) has scripting support and the community has developed a great method for sharing those scripts: Gist! They create Gists…

Chris Wanstrath