Krishna

(This is the text of the keynote I gave at Startup Riot 2009. Will update when video becomes available.)

Hi everyone, I’m Chris Wanstrath, and I’m one of the co-founders of GitHub.

GitHub, if you haven’t heard of it, has been described as “Facebook for developers.” Which is great when talking about GitHub as a website, but not so great when describing GitHub as a business. In fact, I think we’re the polar opposite of Facebook as a business: we’re small, never took investment, and actually make money. Some have even called us successful.

Which I’ve always wondered about. Success is very vague, right? Probably even relative. How do you define it?

After thinking for a while I came up with two criteria. The first is profitability. We employ four people full time, one person part time, have thousands of paying customers, and are still growing. In fact, our rate of growth is increasing – which means January was our best month so far, and February is looking pretty damn good.

igrigorik

require 'rubygems'
require 'rack'

class Object
  def webapp
    class << self
       define_method :call do |env|
         func, *attrs = env['PATH_INFO'].split('/').reject(&:empty?)
         [200, {}, send(func, *attrs)]
       end

jeresig

au BufRead,BufNewFile jquery.*.js set ft=javascript syntax=jquery
set nocompatible
set autoindent
set tabstop=2
set showmatch
set vb t_vb=
set ruler
set nohls
set incsearch
syntax on

bmarini

# https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/2.1/tutorial/vcl.html
# https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/VCLExamples

# Summary
# 1. Varnish will poll the backend at /health_check to make sure it is
#    healthy. If the backend goes down, varnish will server stale content
#    from the cache for up to 1 hour.
# 2. Varnish will pass X-Forwarded-For headers through to the backend
# 3. Varnish will remove cookies from urls that match static content file
#    extensions (jpg, gif, ...)

iain

class Users::Register

  def self.call(attributes)
    new(attributes).call
  end

  def initialize(attributes)
    @attributes = attributes
  end

bokmann

# This is the code from my 'There is No Such Thing as Metaprogramming' talk,
# which premiered at the Arlington, VA Ruby Users Group on Feb 22nd.
# Without the deliver and walk-through to the solution below this example
# will be missing quite an important bit of content (mainly the tracking of
# 'self' while developing the solution, but it still a useful read.

# Here is the Toddler with no metajuju. Note that the developer, as well as
# the code, is completely unuaware of the interpreter. A developer with a
# background in compiled languages would be comfortable looking at this.

danielberlinger

require 'statsd'
$statsd = Statsd.new('your_host_here')

ActiveSupport::Notifications.subscribe /process_action.action_controller/ do |*args| 
  event = ActiveSupport::Notifications::Event.new(*args)
  controller = event.payload[:controller]
  action = event.payload[:action]
  format = event.payload[:format] || "all" 
  format = "all" if format == "*/*" 
  status = event.payload[:status]