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I just blogged about the new git-notes functionality over at the Pro Git blog. If you're interested in using Git notes for something, you might be interested to know that GitHub now supports them and will display them on your commit pages.

I just released and deployed Jekyll 0.7.0 to GitHub Pages today. This release includes support for SmartyPants via RDiscount for Markdown files. To get all those nice curly quotation marks, em/en dashes, and elipses, simply make sure your Jekyll repo's _config.yml contains the following lines:

Mozilla Labs is now mirroring open source to GitHub: http://github.com/mozillalabsRead the blog post or check out the repositories on GitHub.Rumor has it we'll being see more from Mozilla on GitHub in the future, too!

kinisoftware ha creado un vídeo en español explicando como preparar un entorno de desarrollo Grails utilizando también Git (con GitHub en remoto) y SpringSource Tool Suite.kinisoftware gracias!

I'm currently at the FOSSLC conference in Ottawa, CA and we're going out to Dantessa Italian Bar tonight starting at 21:00 (9pm for us Americans). GitHub will be buying a round or two, so come meet the FOSSLC attendees who will be newly imbued with amazing tech knowledge and share some beer with us.

iOSDevCamp 2010 is being held at the PayPal headquarters in San Jose, California this weekend.What is it? Straight from the horse's mouth:

Lets do this meetup thing.The Facts:Benders Bar 806 S Van Ness Ave (between 19th& 20th St) Thursday, August 19th 2010 8:30pm

Sorry for the last minute notice, but GitHub will be buying beer for geeks at Flat Top Johnny's in Cambridge tonight (Tuesday, August 10th) around 9:30. We're piggybacking on the bostonrb after party, so come mix and mingle. I may even get a couple LinuxCon geeks to come out with us, which is why I'm here in the first place.

We've been hearing a lot of great feedback regarding our current wiki system. Today, we're launching the first phase in a rollout of a completely rewritten Git-backed wiki system to address these issues. Each page is a file in a directory. Each change is a commit.

We added a special header to all outgoing repository and direct message notifications that should make it much easier to filter emails:Direct messages get a List-ID of user.github.com, while repositories get repo.user.github.com. Do you want to easily filter all notifications from a user or organization? GMail supports wildcards too: