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  • Ruby 2.1 Garbage Collection to Address Criticism on Large Scale Deployments

    Ruby’s creator announced the move to generational garbage collection in Ruby 2.1 in what is expected to be an important performance boost for the language. The announcement took place during Barcelona Ruby Conference where Ruby’s GC was singled out as a major pain point in large scale Ruby deployments.

    Manuel Pais
    on Sep 15, 2013

  • OSGi Alliance Opens Up Review Process

    The OSGi Alliance has published their draft specifications onto GitHub, allowing non-OSGi members to see the process that goes behind a specification for the first time, and allowing them to be involved in commenting and suggesting improvements before the specification goes live. Read on for more information about where to find these specifications.

    Alex Blewitt
    on Aug 20, 2013

  • Joy of StackMob

    In the beginning of MBaaS, there was StackMob. Since then the mobile ecosystem has become flooded with competitors in this new approach to app dynamics. InfoQ takes a closer look at the Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) provider StackMob and its privacy practices.

    Martin Monroe
    on Jun 26, 2013

  • Eclipse goes to GitHub

    With the migration of Eclipse repositories to Git, the Eclipse Foundation is looking to make it easier for people to contribute code via enabling a Contributor License Agreement and facilitating projects to be hosted on GitHub to take advantage of social features.

    Alex Blewitt
    on Jun 21, 2013

  • CloudMunch Launches a Full-Stack DevOps Platform

    CloudMunch launched its full-stack DevOps platform - a dashboard of pre-integrated tools for version control, build management, validation, automated testing, deployment and cloud connectors. The company claims its platform significantly simplifies deployment of applications and infrastructure.

    Grischa Ekart
    on May 13, 2013

  • GitSync for Plastic SCM with Native Git Protocols and Visual Studio 2012 Support

    GitSync for Plastic SCM has been released with support for native Git network protocols and Visual Studio 2012 support.

    Anand Narayanaswamy
    on Mar 19, 2013

  • GitHub Boxen: Automating Mac OS X Configuration and Management

    GitHub has open sourced Boxen used internally for automated configuration of Mac laptops, a tool that could be converted to set up Linux or Windows machines.

    Abel Avram
    on Feb 19, 2013

  • Thoughtworks Technology Radar March 2012

    ThoughtWorks recently published the latest update to its Technology Radar; a report produced to help technology decision makers understand emerging trends in software development techniques, tools, languages and platforms. There are some interesting observations of interest to Agile software development teams.

    Craig Smith
    on Mar 22, 2012

  • GitHub Has Open Sourced Janky, A CI Server

    GitHub has open sourced Janky, their Continuous Integration server built on top of Jenkins and augmented with Hubot, a chat automation tool.

    Abel Avram
    on Dec 23, 2011

  • Interview with Spring Social Lead Craig Walls

    Following on from the recent release of Spring Social, InfoQ caught up with Craig Walls, lead of the project. The interview covered the current state of the project, as well as the community involvement since its release.

    Alex Blewitt
    on Sep 19, 2011

  • GitHub Adds Web-Based File Edit and Commit Feature

    GitHub just added a new feature: files in the web view of a Git repository can now be edited and then committed in the browser. A similar feature was added to Google Code a few months ago.

    Werner Schuster
    on Aug 16, 2011

  • Google Code Gets Git

    Google Code has finally released support for Git repositories on Google Code, adding to the existing DVCS support with Mercurial and the CVCS support of Subversion. The only remaining player not to fully move towards Git repositories is now Apache, which has its own read-only copies of a writable Subversion repository.

    Alex Blewitt
    on Jul 15, 2011

  • GitHub Releases OSX Client

    GitHub have launched a desktop client for Mac OS X called simply GitHub for Mac.

    Alex Blewitt
    on Jun 22, 2011

  • GitHub Passes 2m Repositories

    GitHub recently announced they had passed two million git repositories hosted, with 70% being created in the last year alone and an expected 1m users later this year. What else is new at GitHub?

    Alex Blewitt
    on Apr 21, 2011

  • Eclipse on GitHub

    First Haskell, and now Eclipse moves to GitHub. Only Git repositories are being mirrored to GitHub, but there's more than 70 repositories already created at the Eclipse Foundation page on GitHub. With EGit 0.11 being released as part of 3.6.2 and aiming for a 1.0 release in Eclipse 3.7, there's more demand than ever to move to Git for Eclipse projects.

    Alex Blewitt
    on Apr 01, 2011
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