We’re having another maintenance window tonight from 22:00 to 23:00 PDT. We will be installing and testing the “sorry server” that will be enabled if no frontends are available to serve requests. Instead of just refusing connections, this server will point you to the Twitter status feed and display information on surviving when GitHub is down.

jbalogh has a write up on how to implement GitHub’s Ribbons in pure CSS: Redoing the GitHub Ribbon in CSS

You’ve probably heard about Rack, right? Few months ago during the conversation with my teammate about potential and possibilities of Rack, and Rack middleware we’ve came up with an idea of creating some coding contest. We wanted to encourage Ruby developers to explore the power of Rack because we believe it’s the best thing since sliced bread. And what better way than to hold a contest? And now we can proudly say that it happened! We’ve just launched it and got really positive feedback about it so far.

In the last post, I introduced Boson and its options for commands. What I didn’t mention was that Boson also gives those commands default options. Among them are ones to control rendering a command’s output with Hirb and even toggle rendering. At the flick of a switch, Boson commands (Ruby methods) can have Hirb’s views.