I did this summarization when I added Lirate_CoffeeScript support for GitHub-Linguist, i.e how does GitHub do Marjdown render and code highlight in its front end.Lots of font end tools used by GitHub are open sourced. They are:1. HTML/CSS/JavaScript1.1 HTML templateGitHub markup and template styleguide : https://github.com/styleguide/templates1.2 Style and CSSGitHub uses replacement of CSS:SCSS：https://github.com/nex3/sassKSS：https://github.com/kneath/kssGitHub CSS styleguide : https://github.com/styleguide/css1.3 Behavior and JavaScriptGitHub uses CoffeeScript:CoffeeScript：http...

Code hosting community Github has much proud data: 55 employees, Andreessen Horowitz promised a $100 million investment, $750 million valuation, a place developers stay longest since its launch in 2008 ... Github announced the official launch of a separate teaching page, to teach developers collaborative programming through various forms.Github announces the detail about the training program on its official blog, the entire training project has two modes : free and paid. The content of their trainning is about basic Git and Github technologies. The separate training page provides web-based cou...

If not invested by Andreessen Horowitz, GitHub might not be noticed by Forbes, CNN, New York Times. People didn't know this tool because it was very far away from the world -- GitHub is a project hosting service used by programmers.But to some programmers, it is not just a place for project hosting, it is`also the hub for open source projects, a place for programmers improving themselves and a social network for programmers.There are around 3.26 million projects hosted on GitHub currently, including Linux, Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Apache and the popular Node.js.Why is GitHub so popular?It is an ...

Popular social coding and code hosting site GitHub is close to make an fund raising agreement with venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. After this round of fund raising, GitHub's market value will be around $500-800million.GitHub is a very popular social coding website, the major clients are programmers from big IT companies. Recently, GitHub even becomes a platform for some big companies to recruit new programmers, some HR managers are more willing to read applicant's GitHun profile instead of just the personal resume.Since launched in 2008, GitHub has over 1.6 million registered users a...

We want to foster a creative environment. We love it when employees hack onside projects. It gets people excited. Excitement is contagious, andspreads easily from one project to another. Even if we’ll never make money onthat side project, the excitement generated from it can bleed into things thatwill make us money.AlcoholIt’s no secret that there’s more than a few people at GitHub who like to drink.I mean, we have four beers on-tap at the office in our kegerator.But alcohol is more important than just intoxication.We meet people. Through our sponsored drinkups, we meet a ...

This is — by far — my favorite aspect of working at GitHub. Everything isasynchronous.ChatGitHub didn’t have an office for the first two years. Chat rooms (in our case,Campfire) is where things got done. Today we’ve moved into oursecond office, and Campfire is still where we get things done. There’s areason for that: chat is asynchronous.Asynchronous communication means I can take a step out for lunch and catch upon transcripts when I get back. Asynchronous communication means I can ask mycoworker a question in-chat and not worry about bothering her since she...