Everyone’s favorite davglass has released his YUI Git helper to make contributing to the YUI suite of repositories even easier. The wiki does a great job of documenting the script and his blog post provides an overview.

Very cool!

Six Apart, the company behind TypePad, Movable Type, Vox, and other services, has begun open sourcing code on GitHub as sixapart.

They join 37signals, digg, yahoo, techcrunch, shopify, and tons of other companies releasing code here on GitHub.

Welcome sixers!

pcalcado has posted a simple Clojure app that runs on Google App Engine at https://github.com/pcalcado/my-best-mate.

He’s also written a blog post explaining much about App Engine and running Java titled Getting Cloudy: Clojure on Google App Engine.

Nicely done!

The code for Planet Scala is now hosted on GitHub. DRMacIver explains the rationale behind the move:

I really don’t care about the web frontend. As far as I’m concerned, planet scala is a feed aggregator that happens to have a web page. [...] What I really need is someone else to do it for me. Someone who actually cares about the web page, is good at it and has the time to work on it. [...] If only there were some way of getting a distributed group of programmers with disparate interests to collaborate on a project…

Tada: https://github.com/DRMacIver/planet-scala

Michael Foord has written a great blog post summarizing some the recent progress devhawk (Harry Pierson) has made on the IronPython debugger front. Check it out: Further Adventures of the Debugger

While there are a bunch of great changes, the new REPL has an interesting blog post explaining its implementation.

Grab the debugger from GitHub at https://github.com/devhawk/ipydbg and dive in.

Thanks guys!

GitHub officially launched one year ago.

Thanks for a great first year, everyone!

I’d also like to give a special thanks to mojombo, pjhyett, schacon, tekkub, and qrush for being so awesome and helping make GitHub so great. You guys rock!

The tiny robots over at Thoughtbot have just released a new feature for Hoptoad, the app error app. Exceptions that pop up now link back to the source tree at GitHub, including the file and line where the error occurred. You can track the git revision for deploys, as well. Definitely check this out if you’re hosting your Rails app from GitHub.

(And thanks for the plug!)

I just released Jekyll 0.5.0 which contains a huge overhaul that allows you to specify options in a _config.yml file. GitHub Pages will honor most of these settings, so if you want to have your Page rendered with RDiscount instead of Maruku, just put this in your config file:

markdown: rdiscount

And if you’d prefer to use a different permalink style, you can set that too:

permalink: pretty

This release also contains tons of bugfixes. More info on GitHub Pages at https://pages.github.com and be sure to peruse the Jekyll Readme

The highly Googleable E Text Editor is now open source and available on GitHub at https://github.com/etexteditor/e. Read the blog post announcement for more information.

It was open sourced as part of their commitment to being an open company.

The four GitHub developers will be doing a panel at RailsConf 2009 this year and want your questions!

Please submit them using this Google Moderator app.

We’ll record the event, so even if you’re not attending RailsConf feel free to submit.

aaronjensen has posted the ASP.NET MVC source code at https://github.com/machine/msmvc. Fork it, implement your ideas (or suggestions as failing tests), then appeal to the ASP.NET MVC overlords for inclusion.

(I heard haacked is one of them.)

On the same note, jschementi pushed up IronRubyMvc a while ago. It’s an extension to ASP.NET MVC to support IronRuby. According to the README, it lets you write your controllers (and presumably other parts of your site) in Ruby.

Welcome to the Hub, MVCers!

Sideline is a Twitter app for Adobe AIR built with YUI. With it you can create custom queries and group them by topics of interest.

It’s open source and released under the BSD license. Looks slick!

https://github.com/cauld/sideline

Drupal_TDD contains code and sample apps to simplify Test Driven Development and unit testing with Drupal.

More updates are on the way, so be sure to check out the latest news from MarkBennett on his blog.

The Pinax Project, a premiere up and coming platform for rapidly developing Django sites, now lives on GitHub at https://github.com/pinax/pinax.

Cloud27 is an example of what can be done with Pinax.

The features overview is very impressive:

• openid support
• email verification
• password management
• site announcements
• a notification framework
• user-to-user messaging
• friend invitation (both internal and external to the site)
• a basic twitter clone
• oembed support
• gravatar support
• interest groups (called tribes)
• projects with basic task and issue management
• threaded discussions
• wikis with multiple markup support
• blogging
• bookmarks
• tagging
• contact import (from vCard, Google or Yahoo)
• photo management

Having personally coded almost half of those features for GitHub (and other sites in the past), I’d say this is a huge potential time saver worth a look.