February 3rd, 2013

Thanks To GitHub, The Enterprise Just Walked Away With The Crunchies

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It’s the Crunchies’ after party and GitHub Co-Founder and CEO Tom Preston-Werner is sitting at a table by the front door at Absinthe in San Francisco with the Crunchies statue he had just accepted for best overall startup. → Read More

January 30th, 2013

Microsoft Announces Git Support For Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server And Service

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Microsoft just made a major announcement that will likely take many developers by surprise. At the ALM Summit in Redmond, WA this morning, Microsoft Brian Harry just announced that its Team Foundation Server and hosted Team Foundation Service (TFS), as well as the complete Visual Studio 2012 suite (through a plugin the company is releasing today) will offer support for Git, the increasingly… → Read More

October 9th, 2012

Atlassian Updates Bitbucket And Stash, Faces Important Turning Point In Emerging Battle With GitHub

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Follow the rise of GitHub and you have to also look at Atlassian and its powerful combination of tools for developers, particularly in the enterprise market. → Read More

October 2nd, 2012

Perforce Aims to Bring Git to the Enterprise

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It’s no surprise that the pace of technological innovation in the startup and web development world greatly eclipses the pace of technology adoption at most enterprise organizations. Enterprises are generally slow, risk averse, and demand long-term support for products in which they invest. Startups, web development shops, and open source enthusiasts move at a significantly faster pace. While some… → Read More

July 14th, 2012

What Exactly Is GitHub Anyway?

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Andreessen Horowitz announced a whopping $100 million investment in GitHub this week. You can read commentary and speculation all over the web about what GitHub will do with the money, whether this was a good investment for Andreessen Horowitz and whether taking such a large investment is a good thing for GitHub.

But what the heck is GitHub and why are developers so excited about it? You may… → Read More

July 22nd, 2008

GitHub unites Version Control with the Pastie

GitHub, the popular service for hosting Git repositories, has taken a step outside the box and improved upon the classic pastie service (place for coders to post code snippets). To do that, GitHub took the same formula that has proved successful with their repository hosting service and applied it to pasties. The result: a new service launching today at gist.github.com. What does this mean for… → Read More