Nerd Merit Badges bring the fun of collecting merit badges to those of us with a penchant for late night coding sessions and weekends poring over esoteric nerd folklore. Get yours now in the GitHub Shop!
You can proudly display this badge if you are a contributor to an open source project. Displaying the Octocat will demonstrate to your friends and enemies that you love open source and have the code to prove it!
Each merit badge is 1.5 inches in diameter, fully embroidered, and Velcro-backed. Attach to your jacket, your backpack, or the lid of your over-clocked, battle-scarred laptop.
Today Tower, the most powerful Git client for Mac, was officially released.
The best part? Use coupon code GITHUB10 to get 10% off until March 15th, 2011.
Or, just click this link.
Not sold? Tower has a 30 day free trial.
Congrats to the fournova team for shipping Tower!
GitHub is in New York City and tomorrow night at 9pm we're sponsoring the drinks at the O'Reilly Tools of Change conference at the Sheraton in midtown. Please stop by and have a drink on us. You'll need one of these spiffy coupons to get a drink, so find me to get one.
Afterwards we might go elsewhere, so stick around. I'll tweet it if we move.
tr;dr:
Tuesday, February 15th
Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers
811 7th Avenue at 53rd Street
New York, NY 10019
9pm
To finish off this epic week of hiring, we're announcing that Tater is now a GitHubber.
Tater is coming on as our new Chief Happiness Officer (sorry PJ). Look at that face! All Tater wants to do is make everyone happy. His main task will be to drop pug bombs when we least expect it.
Welcome to the team, Tater!
Back when I started using TextMate, its cmd-T file finder completely changed the way I browse and read code. When I switched to Janus last year, it was only because I found the excellent Command-T plugin for vim.
These days, though, I find myself reading most new code in my browser on GitHub. And I really miss cmd-T.
So, I did the only thing that made sense: I added cmd-T to GitHub.
Try it out: just hit t on any repo's file or directory view.
Today marks Aman Gupta's first day as a GitHubber. Years ago, Aman embarked upon a crusade to make Ruby faster, leaner, more concurrent, and more debuggable. Today he brings that expertise to GitHub.
We've already been using Aman's code for years. His work on EventMachine has allowed us to write a routing proxy in Ruby that shuttles gigabytes of data between the frontends and file servers with ease and simplicity. Tools like memprof, gdb.rb, perftools.rb, and rbtrace have finally given Ruby developers fine grained insight into the memory and performance of their Ruby projects. Whether he's disassing MRI or writing killer Rails code, you can count on Aman to take things to the next level.
We're insanely excited that Aman has joined the team, and you can be sure to see his mark on GitHub very soon.
(And don't forget to follow Aman on Twitter and GitHub for additional awesome.)
Today we're happy to announce that Simon Rozet has joined the GitHub team. His experience working on large Ruby applications and as a heavy GitHub user will surely result in some pretty sweet improvements.
Simon hails from Brussels, Belgium and is currently visiting our offices in SF. Say hi if you see him at the drinkup this week.
You might recognize Simon from his contributions to Sinatra and Integrity projects, but even if you don't you should definitely follow him on GitHub and Twitter.
Welcome to the team, Simon!
Join us for a meetup at the Edinburgh Castle Pub! Thats PUB. Not the castle. In SAN FRANCISCO. Not in the United Kingdom. Sorry to our lovely UK users- we'll make it out there again eventually, promise.
The Facts:
Edinburgh Castle Pub 950 Geary Street Thursday, February 10th 2011 8:30pm
Today marks Mislav Marohnić's first day as a GitHubber. As a JavaScript and Ruby expert, Mislav is going to help us bring some serious awesome to your github.com experience.
Whether it's his beautiful Instagram web frontend, his innovative approach to Explaining Ruby, his groundbreaking work on will_paginate, or his amazing blog, Mislav has been impressing us for years.
We're super excited to have him on the team and even more excited to see what he's going to do. Welcome, Mislav!
(And don't forget to follow Mislav on Twitter and GitHub for even more greatness.)
I will be in Boulder on Thursday, February 10th giving talks at NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) and BLUG (Boulder Linux User's Group). The BLUG talk will be titled "Unlocking the Secrets of Git" and starts at 7pm. See the previous link for details.
After the BLUG meetup I will be holding a GitHub Drinkup at the Southern Sun Pub & Brewery at 9pm.
Hope to see you there!
Today marks Tim Clem's first day as a GitHubber. From repairing battleships with laser wielding robots to creating iPhone apps, Tim has done it all. He'll be using his vast expertise to help us with top secret projects. Also: kegerator.
Check out Tim's blog for great posts, his Twitter for classy Instagrams, and his GitHub for creative code.
Welcome to the team, Tim!
That's right. They're here. Now you can comment directly on individual lines in the Diff attached to any Pull Request.
These things are smart. They keep their proper position, even after pushing additional changes to the same file.
Diff comment threads are also interleaved chronologically into the Discussion view along with a small diff excerpt for context. Great for coming up to speed on the evolution of a branch over time.
Leaving line comments is easy. Hover left of the line that you hate and hit the bubble.
Want to know more about how people are using Pull Requests? Check out our Futuristic Code Review feature page.
Next Friday, February 11, GitHub is hosting another online Git training course conducted by our friend Matthew McCullough of Ambient Ideas. If you or your teammates need to get up to speed on Git quickly and from the comfort of your home or office, this course is just the ticket.
Matt will do six 50 minutes sessions during which you'll explore the foundations of Git through the practical every-day commands. The course runs from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm EST and costs $195.
You can learn more about the course and sign up here.
Past classes have been great. Here are some things our students have had to say about it:
"Thank you very much for your Git class! It was excellent, very clear, great examples, very professional. I am a lot more comfortable with Git now."
-Oscar Pagani, Front End Web Developer, Wells Fargo Bank
"Online git training today was phenomenal. Highly recommended."
-David Bock, Founder, Code Sherpas
"Wow - finally seeing the full power of rebase - loving the #git training from Matthew McCullough."
-Peter Bell, CTO of SystemsForge
"I feel you were a great instructor. The presentation, your control, and the overall presentation were great. I feel that class had enough freedom to explore different things, but was still grounded with a plan of attack. Very easy to listen for 6 hours today; can't say that with every instructor. Overall I would give this course and you very high marks."
-Ryan Gibbons, Senior Developer at Warren Douglas
One of my New Year's resolutions for this year is to make GitHub search awesome. Today I'm happy to announce that Phase One of this project is complete, in the form of a totally redone Gist search:
There are a few new features to notice.
- Matched snippets are shown and specific matches are highlighted in yellow.
- Code is syntax highlighted if a proper filetype was specified.
- Multiple matches in a single Gist file will be shown (up to a max of 3 snippets).
In addition, the reliability and comprehensiveness of the index are vastly improved and a ranking formula has been put in place that we can easily tweak over time to dial in the best results.
As I mentioned, this is only the beginning of the search improvements that you can look forward to over the coming months. I aim to make GitHub search your first and best choice when it comes to finding the projects, people, and code that you care about.
GitHub is putting on a conference. You are invited.
