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Application development
Application development encompasses the processes, methodologies, and technologies used to create software applications. Whether you’re building a mobile app, a web app, or a desktop application, we have insights and tutorials designed to help you wherever you are in your journey.
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How GitHub engineers learn new codebases
Strategies to quickly get up to speed, whether you’re a seasoned engineer or a newcomer to the field.
How we built the GitHub Skyline CLI extension using GitHub
GitHub uses GitHub to build GitHub, and our CLI extensions are no exception. Read on to find out how we built the GitHub Skyline CLI extension using GitHub!
Insider newsletter digest: Cook up a controller with GitHub Copilot
Whether you’re coding up a storm or cooking up code, building a controller function with AI is your secret sauce to a flavorful app.
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Build code security skills with the GitHub Secure Code Game
Learn to find and fix security issues while having fun with Secure Code Game, now with new challenges focusing on JavaScript, Python, Go, and GitHub Actions!
Insider newsletter digest: Build from anywhere
Explore the August 2023 edition, featuring easy tips and tricks for GitHub Mobile.
Getting started with edge computing
Edge computing practitioners answer your questions about when and why to build applications at the edge.
Implementing a robust digital identity
How can you robustly assert and identify a user’s identity?
Adding support for cross-cluster associations to Rails 7
At GitHub, we recently added a new feature to Rails that will be available in 7.0: support for handling associations across database clusters.
Presenting CodeNaija: A hackathon hosted by Andela and GitHub’s Blacktocats
CodeNaija is a GitHub-led Hackathon where we hosted over 100 software engineers for over 30 hours of learning and passionate discussions about technology.
Vulcanizer: a library for operating Elasticsearch
Vulcanizer is a Go library for interacting with an Elasticsearch cluster. Its goal is to provide a high-level API to help with common tasks associated with operating an Elasticsearch cluster such as querying health status of the cluster, migrating data off of nodes, updating cluster settings, and more.
New theme chooser for GitHub Pages
You can now build a GitHub Pages website with a Jekyll theme in just a few clicks. Create a new GitHub repository or go to an existing one. Open the…
Publishing with GitHub Pages, now as easy as 1, 2, 3
Publishing a website or software documentation with GitHub Pages now requires far fewer steps — three to be exact: Create a repository (or navigate to an existing repository) Commit a Markdown…
Simpler GitHub Pages publishing
We’re making it easier to publish a website with GitHub Pages. Now you can select a source in your repository settings and GitHub Pages will look for your content there.…
Upgrading your Textile posts to Markdown
A month ago, we announced that GitHub Pages had upgraded to Jekyll 3.0. Starting May 1st, 2016, GitHub Pages will no longer support Textile. If you are currently using Textile…
Scientist: Measure Twice, Cut Once
Today we’re releasing Scientist 1.0 to help you rewrite critical code with confidence. As codebases mature and requirements change, it is inevitable that you will need to replace or rewrite…
Automating code deployment with GitHub and Azure
There are many cloud services that support automated code deployment from GitHub. In this post, we’re going to be taking a look at connecting a GitHub repository to a Microsoft…
Announcing the GitHub Developer Program
Whether you’re just getting started or have been building applications on the GitHub API for years, the GitHub Developer Program is all about making sure you have the right resources…
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