Widgets for Webmasters
In just a few short months GitHub has become a huge hit in the programming community, especially in the open source and Rails communities. GitHub provides software repository services using Git, the decentralized version control system created by Linus Torvalds and used by the Linux kernel project. GitHub hosts about 10,000 projects and officially launched in April of this year after a beta period of a few months. It may seem counterintuitive to create a centralized software repository using what is supposed to be a decentralized system, but what makes GitHub special are the social features it offers. Git makes it easy to fork and merge code, and GitHub has taken those concepts and built social networking features around them, including user and project news feeds of comments, forks, commits, and other project related... [read full story]
