Application development

How can you robustly assert and identify a user’s identity?

At GitHub, we recently added a new feature to Rails that will be available in 7.0: support for handling associations across database clusters.

CodeNaija is a GitHub-led Hackathon where we hosted over 100 software engineers for over 30 hours of learning and passionate discussions about technology.

Vulcanizer is a Go library for interacting with an Elasticsearch cluster. Its goal is to provide a high-level API to help with common tasks associated with operating an Elasticsearch cluster such as querying health status of the cluster, migrating data off of nodes, updating cluster settings, and more.

You can now build a GitHub Pages website with a Jekyll theme in just a few clicks. Create a new GitHub repository or go to an existing one. Open the…

Publishing a website or software documentation with GitHub Pages now requires far fewer steps — three to be exact: Create a repository (or navigate to an existing repository) Commit a Markdown…

We’re making it easier to publish a website with GitHub Pages. Now you can select a source in your repository settings and GitHub Pages will look for your content there.…

A month ago, we announced that GitHub Pages had upgraded to Jekyll 3.0. Starting May 1st, 2016, GitHub Pages will no longer support Textile. If you are currently using Textile…

Today we’re releasing Scientist 1.0 to help you rewrite critical code with confidence. As codebases mature and requirements change, it is inevitable that you will need to replace or rewrite…

There are many cloud services that support automated code deployment from GitHub. In this post, we’re going to be taking a look at connecting a GitHub repository to a Microsoft…

Whether you’re just getting started or have been building applications on the GitHub API for years, the GitHub Developer Program is all about making sure you have the right resources…