
Merge Commits are Back (and Better than Ever)
After a long hiatus, we’re linking to merge commits again. We truncated merge commits months ago, because they didn’t provide any information beyond the shas of the parents, but now…
After a long hiatus, we’re linking to merge commits again. We truncated merge commits months ago, because they didn’t provide any information beyond the shas of the parents, but now…
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!…
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.…
The Unofficial Apple Weblog, or TUAW, is now on GitHub: http://github.com/tuaw img http://img.skitch.com/20091014-p9c85ngu2yrhsr7jnrd888ex6.png http://github.com/tuaw While there’s nothing there yet, they only announced the account yesterday and said in the post,…
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…
Now that news from the move has slightly settled down, it’s Rebase time! As always, if you’ve got awesome projects you’d like featured, feel free to send me a message.…
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…
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…
Rebaaaaaaaase. I’m always looking for great projects to feature, so don’t hesitate to let me know about yours! Featured Project redis is a key-value store that just hit 1.0.0. So…
A few days ago, the 2009 GitHub contest ended. I’m currently going through all of the top submissions to verify the winners and look through some of the code used.…
Continuous Integration is a fancy term for “run your project’s tests after someone pushes to the repository and notify interested parties if they fail.” We’re currently in the process of…
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…
Last weekend was a microformatsDevCamp in San Francisco. What’s a DevCamp? Chris Messina has an explanation. img http://img.skitch.com/20090730-fhntg8t8ia5capxuwsyhhp862q.png http://microformats.org/wiki/events/2009-07-25-dev-camp Now that the dust is settled a few projects have been…
Today we’re announcing our 2009 GitHub Contest. Since the Netflix prize is now over, we figured you guys needed something to do. Here is your chance to contribute to the…
Welcome to Rebase #26! If you’ve got an interesting project you’d like to see on the column feel free to shoot me a message. I’d love to see more themed…
It’s the 25th edition of Rebase! If you’re feeling nostalgic and want to dive through the previous issues, check out the archive here. Featured Project pinax is a Django-based platform…
Welcome back to Rebase! Want your project featured? Check out the guidelines and remember: the more information on your README/project page the better! Featured Project blue-ridge is a no-hassle JavaScript…
If you’re in New York, or are interested in Open Government initiatives, you may be excited to know that the New York State Senate has opened up to the online…
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…
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…
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…
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