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The latest blogs from GitHub
Explore the latest blogs from GitHub on all things software development from the newest capabilities on the GitHub platform to research and insights—and guides to help you level up your engineering skills.
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OctoTales • MailChimp
What does a modern developer look like? The workforce is overcoming the stereotype of siloed, surly coders typing from dim, stall-like cubicles. We talked with the team at MailChimp, who…
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GitHub Pages now runs Jekyll 3.2
As promised, GitHub Pages has been upgraded to Jekyll 3.2. The move to Jekyll 3.2 brings over 100 improvements including the introduction of Gem-based themes. You can begin using the…
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Back to School: Learn Fundamentals of Web Development with Thinkful
Thinkful is now offering their Fundamentals of Web Development course to Student Developer Pack members. As a student, you will receive two weeks of 1-on-1 mentorship from a professional software…
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Publish Your Project Documentation with GitHub Pages
You might be familiar with how GitHub Pages helps you share your work with the world or maybe you have attended a class that helped you build your first GitHub…
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GitHub Extension for Visual Studio 2.0 is now available
We’re pleased to announce that version 2.0 of the GitHub Extension for Visual Studio is now available. You can install it directly from the Tools and Extensions gallery in Visual…
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Building your first Atom plugin
Authored by GitHub Campus Expert @NickTikhonov. This tutorial will teach you how to write your first package for the Atom text editor. We’ll be building a clone of Sourcerer, a…
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The full schedule for GitHub Universe 2016 is now live
Join us in San Francisco for three days filled with the creativity and curiosity of the largest software community in the world. GitHub Universe features two keynotes, six featured speakers,…
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See the users you’ve blocked on your settings page
You’ve been able to block users for a while now, but you can now see who you’ve blocked from your account settings page. You can also search and add new…
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Simpler GitHub Pages publishing
We’re making it easier to publish a website with GitHub Pages. Now you can select a source in your repository settings and GitHub Pages will look for your content there.…
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At GitHub we use MySQL as our main datastore. While repository data lies in git, metadata is stored in MySQL. This includes Issues, Pull Requests, Comments etc. We also auth…
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Build an integration for GitHub
You can now access more tools from our Integrations Directory. The Directory now has more than 15 categories — from API management to application monitoring, there’s a GitHub integration to…
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Back to school: Join the GitHub Education Community
Just in time for back-to-school preparations, we welcome you to join a new forum for technology education: education.github.community This supportive environment will allow educators to collaborate with each other, and…
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GitHub Universe Big Bang Benefit Concert
You’ve never been to an after party like this. We’re doing something a little different with our conference after party and opening it up to GitHub communities outside of our…
Learn moreProduct Change the base branch of a Pull Request
You can now change the base branch of an open pull request. After you’ve created a pull request, you can modify the base branch so that the changes in the…
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Patchwork Tampa Bay
We’re taking Patchwork to sunny Tampa Bay on August 30. Together with our friends at Women in Linux, we’ll be hosting this event at First WaVE Venture Center. As with…
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Ticket Scholarships to GitHub Universe
GitHub Universe kicks off next month in San Francisco. To make the conference accessible to more people and enrich the experience for all attendees, we’re excited to offer free tickets…
Learn moreThe library GitHub Pages to upgrade to Jekyll 3.2
GitHub Pages will upgrade to Jekyll 3.2 on August 23rd. The upgrade to Jekyll 3.2 comes with over 100 improvements including the introduction of themes, meaning that soon, you’ll be…
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Search wiki pages
You can now search for wiki pages from either the main search page, or within a repository. Quickly discover how to use the exec command of your Redis client, or…
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Patchwork Dallas
We’re thrilled to be visiting Dallas and hosting a Patchwork with our friends at Improving. As with all our Patchworks, the event is open to all beginners to Git and…
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Hear from the GitHub team at Universe
Universe is three full days of featured community speakers, in-depth product training, keynotes from GitHub leadership, and breakout sessions led by experts from across the industry. You’ll hear from the…
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