episode 45

GitHub

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Adam and Josh sat down with Tom Preston-Werner and Chris Wanswrath. They are two of the three guys behind the genius that is github. They also talk a bit about previous projects like FamSpam and Gravatar.

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shownotes

  • Interviewed at Pivotal Labs
  • Twitter hired Pivotal Labs to help scale
  • We have twitter, web20show, adamstac, joshowens
  • We launched Handcrafted
  • Engineyard gives customers free accounts for Lighthouse, New Relic, and Github
  • New Relic is awesome for tracking performance, we want to interview them!
  • We used New Relic to speed up Transpondr, LessAccounting, and TastyPlanner
  • Read Ezra’s blog, especially Vertebrae
  • We love Octocat!
  • Github was born in a bar!
  • Sharing a git project publicly was painful.
  • Chris was selfishly writing a replacement for himself
  • Gitweb didn’t allow great forking
  • Who owns a project is more of a social problem
  • They haven’t done much on the SEO side
  • A million+ page views
  • ErrFree is where PJ and Chris do client work
  • They used it internally to develop FamSpam
  • Github launched a private beta in January
  • Adam loves the logical-ness of Git!
  • Myspace for coders! Errr, wait, Facebook for coders.
  • TPDubs – Git is your permission to fuck up
  • Git distributed source control is a defactor backup because everyone has the commit history
  • Git workflow is a huge step forward for open source
  • Signal (Josh’s wiki) was published on github and a random person started finishing it
  • Github is a free resurrect spell!
  • Github has search
  • They use GFS, mirroring, etc for backup
  • S3sync is a great backup tool
  • Git can be setup to push to two remotes at once
  • DHH startup school video
  • Chris compares FamSpam to Github
  • Github is inherently self-propagating
  • Github helps users kick ass and show off stuff (like Kathy says)
  • Companies like twitter help make the Ruby/Rails community even strong
  • We all hate quickbooks
  • Using twitter for testimonials
  • TastyPlanner had a painful git moment
  • TPDubs wants to create quick git screencasts
  • logical awesome tries to be very transparent
  • Github isn’t interested in VC
  • They used Github to write Github
  • Adam recommends his own book! The four hour work week
  • Build something sustainable, like Github, because donations suck
  • They are working on super sekret stuffs, but they don’t want to talk about it yet
  • They plan to expand the collaboration and add more groups and company stuff
  • They were at railsconf! The giant octocat went to cabooseconf, though
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bynbound added June 16, 2008
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Good interview! “The four hour work week” is a great book!
bydegsy added June 17, 2008
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As ever, top quality. You planning on keeping these regular again?
byLongTimeListener added June 24, 2008
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I love the work you do, but if you could hold off the the stray profanities a little it would be appreciated. Josh seems to keep it professional but Adam slides into the dark side. I love the energy but the profanities seem out of place.
byAdam Stacoviak added June 25, 2008
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Hey all thanks for the comments on the show.

1. We are planning to keep these regular. We have a queue of shows that are scheduled. Please, stay tuned if you enjoy the content.

2. As for the profanity, I didn't realize I was such a potty mouth. I'll have to re-listen to the ep to see what I said, but I have always tried to be professional when it comes to the interview as well as our intros. I'll be sure to keep the profanity down to a minimum.

3. If there are any suggestions for the show, please don't hesitate to send us feedback. We love to hear comments from our fans.

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