Chris Wanstrath

Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

by Thomas L. Friedman  · 22 Nov 2016  · 602pp  · 177,874 words

for the rapid learning and improving of software programs that drives innovation faster and faster. Originally founded by three grade-A geeks—Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, and P. J. Hyett—GitHub is now the world’s largest code host. Since I could not visit any major company today without finding programmers

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an exact replica of the Oval Office, right down to the carpet! They like to make their guests feel special. My host, GitHub’s CEO, Chris Wanstrath, began by telling me how the “Git” got into GitHub. Git, he explained, is a “distributed version control system” that was invented in 2005 by

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from Walmart’s mobile app. They also introduced me to the best ribs in Arkansas. I am deeply indebted to Doug Cutting from Hadoop and Chris Wanstrath from GitHub for patiently walking me through the evolution of both of their companies and ensuring that I got every fact right. It took multiple

Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups

by Ali Tamaseb  · 14 Sep 2021  · 251pp  · 80,831 words

success of billion-dollar startup founders. 2 MYTHS AROUND FOUNDERS’ EDUCATION ON DROPPING OUT It took only two years at the University of Cincinnati for Chris Wanstrath to get bored with school. He’d been working toward an English degree, but he spent more time coding than going to class. Wanstrath loved

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we would meet every two weeks at someone’s office, and there’d be some technical talk for maybe an hour. I got to know Chris Wanstrath [the other co-founder of GitHub] through that group, and I’d always admired his work. He was doing consulting and had put out a

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-Old College Dropout Co-Founded GitHub, Which Just Sold to Microsoft for $7.5 Billion,” CNBC, June 4, 2018, www.cnbc.com/2018/06/04/chris-wanstrath-co-founded-github-which-microsoft-bought-for-billions.html. 2. “Number of People with Master’s and Doctoral Degrees Doubles Since 2000,” United States Census

Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby: Control Your Computer, Simplify Your Life

by David B. Copeland  · 6 Apr 2012  · 408pp  · 63,990 words

in the book, including, but probably not limited to, the following: Aslak Hellesøy, TJ Holowaychuk, Ara Howard, Yehuda Katz, James Mead, William Morgan, Ryan Tomayko, Chris Wanstrath, and, of course Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, who created such a wonderful language in which to write command-line apps. With all that being said, let

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writing documentation. Fortunately, the Ruby ecosystem of open source libraries has us covered. gem-man,[21] a plug-in to RubyGems created by GitHub’s Chris Wanstrath, allows users to access man pages bundled inside a gem via the gem man command. ronn [22] is a Ruby app that allows us to

Pro Git

by Scott Chacon  · 17 Aug 2009  · 282pp  · 79,176 words

--git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..03902a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/README2 @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +grit + by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath + http://github.com/mojombo/grit + +Grit is a Ruby library for extracting information from a Git repository It’s important to note that git diff

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all the commits since your last release, if your last release was named v1.0.1: $ git shortlog --no-merges master --not v1.0.1 Chris Wanstrath (8): Add support for annotated tags to Grit::Tag Add packed-refs annotated tag support. Add Grit::Commit#to_patch Update version and History.txt

New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World--And How to Make It Work for You

by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms  · 2 Apr 2018  · 416pp  · 100,130 words

-jen Poo, Katie Radford, Thomas Reese, Jay Rogers, Robin Sather, Nathan Schneider, Michael Silberman, James Slezak, Lara Stein, Courtnie Swearingen, Madelon van Tilburg, Eric Topol, Chris Wanstrath, David Weinberger, Paul Wicks, Rob Wijnberg, David Willey. Most of all, we want to thank the many people we have never met who have already

Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (And What to Do About It)

by Salim Ismail and Yuri van Geest  · 17 Oct 2014  · 292pp  · 85,151 words

stable, stratified environment over much the last decade, with the community producing little in the way of new innovation. Everything changed in 2008, however, when Chris Wanstrath, P.J. Hyett and Tom Preston-Werner (all out of Paul Graham’s Y Combinator entrepreneurial incubator program) founded a company called GitHub. An open

Lurking: How a Person Became a User

by Joanne McNeil  · 25 Feb 2020  · 239pp  · 80,319 words

GitHub Exit” was authored by Alex Wilhelm and Alexia Tsotsis (March 18, 2014). GitHub hired a third-party investigator to look into Horvath’s allegations. Chris Wanstrath published the findings on the company blog on April 28, 2014 (“Follow up to the investigation results”). The investigator found that “Tom Preston-Werner in

Pro Git

by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub  · 12 Nov 2014  · 549pp  · 134,988 words

all the commits since your last release, if your last release was named v1.0.1: $ git shortlog --no-merges master --not v1.0.1 Chris Wanstrath (8): Add support for annotated tags to Grit::Tag Add packed-refs annotated tag support. Add Grit::Commit#to_patch Update version and History.txt

Node.js in Action

by Mike Cantelon, Marc Harter, Tj Holowaychuk and Nathan Rajlich  · 27 Jul 2013  · 628pp  · 107,927 words

for its templating needs. Hogan is an implementation of the popular Mustache (http://mustache.github.com/) template language standard, which was created by GitHub’s Chris Wanstrath. Mustache takes a minimalist approach to templating. Unlike EJS, the Mustache standard deliberately doesn’t include conditional logic, nor any built-in content-filtering capabilities