defunkt

(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.

jbarnette

I've always had a vision of GitHub as a roving pack of feral liquor store patrons,
migrating from section to section, stopping only to grab another bottle of rotgut
whiskey or slaughter an unsuspecting stockboy for food.

Code, I imagine, gets written on aisle 7 (cocktail olives, napkins, and mixers),
on tiny desks made from empty beer cases and wine bottles.

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

jdp

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import types
import operator

class Runtime:
    def __init__(self, env={}, stack=[]):
        self.env = {
            # Primitive words, not an impressive base but it works

ahoward

#! /usr/bin/env ruby


status = DATA.flock(File::LOCK_EX | File::LOCK_NB)

if status == 0
  puts "we have the lock..."
  sleep

else

jesseproudman

worker_processes  1;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
events {
  worker_connections 1024;
}

user daemon daemon;

http {

maddox

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# SHOW ME
# Takes X pictures of you via your iSight, animates them, uploads them to CloudApp, and puts
# the url in your clipboard
#
# This uses a bunch of projects to make the magic happen, mostly thanks 
# to Zach Holman: http://github.com/holman
#
#

ry

// Based on http://bit.ly/215MBZ

function FailureDetector(ws) {
  // ws stands for window size.
  // How many heartbeat intervals we keep track of.
  this.ws = ws || 100;
  this.window = [];
  this.last = null;
}
exports.FailureDetector = FailureDetector;

bergie

Some exercises from the Falsy Values workshops.

The good parts:

• HTTP server and client in same script
• Express cookies example
• Express routing example
• Express error handling
• Express middlewares example
• Simple HTTP proxy

Janiczek

@_1 = ->

  # sum of multiples of 3 or 5 (not both) under 1K

  answer = 0

  for n in [1...1000]
    if n % 3 == 0 or n % 5 == 0
      answer += n