Phabricator – code review, browser, bug tracker, and wiki
Phabricator is an open source collection of web applications which makes it easier to scale software companies.
For those people who can’t afford GitHub, this should be a pretty good alternative. Developed at Facebook. All you’ll need to do is setup your git repositories.
P.S.: The best product descriptions ever (for parts of the Phabricator).
GitHub blog announced a new look and navigation for the programmers’ best friend. Have a look at some of the screenshots, say “WOW!” and rush back to your repositories, looking for the magic “Enable Repository Next” button.
This being a big change and GitHub being such a crucial daily tool for so many people, the changes will be rolled out slowly. So you might need a bit of luck or time to see it right now. Gladly, my repositories do have the feature, and once switched to, they do look better. Navigation is simpler indeed, but will need a little getting used to, as I have it in the muscle memory by now. I also like a tiny bit of more color added, as the white and lightly not white were slightly disorienting after long coding and merging hours.
To the GitHub team: thank you guys, you are awesome! Please keep doing what you are doing – it’s obviously working.
GeoJSON – an open format for encoding a variety of geographic data structures
Looks handy. Learned about it while reading the GitHub blog post on announcing the support for interactive display of GeoJSON files in repositories.
I am having a really proud and exciting moment at work right now. We’ve just deployed the biggest merge ever. I can’t really share enough details to provide you with the context (NDA and all), but here is a GitHub screenshot that gives you an idea.
If you are not familiar with GitHub and don’t know how to read this, here is a summary:
And it all went so smooth, that we even deployed it on Friday, without a single second of downtime. Awesomeness!
Update (April 15, 2013): And just when I thought that that was the biggest merge ever, we did one more the next working day. Have a look!
GitHub is five years old. I find it really difficult to believe that the service I rely on so heavily, both at work and at home, haven’t even been around so recently. I use GitHub both at work, and at home. In fact, every single piece of development I do, even if that’s just for a one time bash oneliner, I start it with a new git repository. And more often than not, that repository ends up being pushed to GitHub.
Happy birthday, guys! Please keep doing what you are doing. It obviously works for millions of people.