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As always, if you have neat projects you want to show off send me a message! I usually try to keep a balance of languages/domains between the posts, so don’t…

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…

See the archives and more over at rebase.github.com! Want in for the next rebase? As you can see, I’m a bit web biased today, but I’d love to get more…

Ruby has Gemcutter, Python has Pypi, and now PHP has Pearhub! img http://img.skitch.com/20100108-j2gtgapb9a1s11fqeukw6tqfdt.png http://pearhub.org Whether your project is hosted on GitHub or somewhere else, Pearhub makes it easy to publish.…

Want to see your project on Rebase? Check out the howto! I also seem to be running short of interesting Git images as well. If you see any, and given…

This week I released hub, a command line script which adds GitHub knowledge to a few git subcommands. For example, clone: $ hub clone cytzol/cope Initialized empty Git repository in…

Once again it’s Rebase time. Let’s do this. (Want in for next time?) Featured Project mongo is a document-oriented database that’s bridging the gap between new NoSQL tools and your…

The Changelog is a new blog and podcast which keeps you up to date on open source happenings. img http://img.skitch.com/20091130-tikw7yti51ee6u2c9hsdnb1bkx.png http://thechangelog.com While it seems to be mostly Ruby-centric, it also…

We spend a lot of time optimizing the front end experience at GitHub. With that said, our asset (css, javascript, images) packaging and serving has evolved to be the best…

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!…

Resque is our Redis-backed library for creating background jobs, placing those jobs on multiple queues, and processing them later. Background jobs can be any Ruby class or module that responds…

As I detailed in How We Made GitHub Fast, we have created a new data serialization and RPC protocol to power the GitHub backend. We have big plans for these…

Now that things have settled down from the move to Rackspace, I wanted to take some time to go over the architectural changes that we’ve made in order to bring…

Last week I offered fame and fortune to anyone who could speed up our version_sorter. It’s used to sort a repo’s tags: This morning I ran the numbers and the…

Some people have been asking for our Unicorn god config. Here it is: # http://unicorn.bogomips.org/SIGNALS.html rails_env = ENV[‘RAILS_ENV’] || ‘production’ rails_root = ENV[‘RAILS_ROOT’] || “/data/github/current” God.watch do |w| w.name =…

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.…

If you received two email receipts tonight it’s because we accidentally billed you twice. That said, the second charge has already been voided. In the craziness of migrating hosts we…

Hi folks, if you’re reading this, you’re on the new servers! I wanted to put up a quick update so that everyone knows what to expect going into our first…

BioPython has moved development to GitHub. Read about it in their blog post or check out their GitUsage guide. img http://img.skitch.com/20090924-t52bbe8xiuyjyajbwpcp4i13xk.png http://biopython.org/wiki/Main_Page They join BioRuby and all the other bio…

In just a few short weeks we will be moving GitHub to a new home at Rackspace. We’re aware of the current stability and performance issues, and we want to…