Krishna 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.

Authoring Ebooks: http://www.authoringebooks.com/
Create Your Own Programming Language: http://createyourproglang.com/
Exceptional Ruby: http://exceptionalruby.com/
JavaScript Performance Rocks: http://javascriptrocks.com/performance/
Redmine Tips: http://www.redminetips.com/
The SPDY Book: http://spdybook.com/
Rails 3 Upgrade Handbook: http://www.railsupgradehandbook.com/
Refactoring Redmine: http://www.refactoringredmine.com/book/
Bootstrapping Design: http://bootstrappingdesign.com/
Recipes With Backbone:

Moved to http://toxicsoftware.com/uistoryboard-issues/

	# Video: http://rubyhoedown2008.confreaks.com/08-chris-wanstrath-keynote.html

	Hi everyone, I'm Chris Wanstrath.

	When Jeremy asked me to come talk, I said yes. Hell yes. Immediately. But
	then I took a few moments and thought, Wait, why? Why me? What am I supposed
	to say that's interesting? Something about Ruby, perhaps. Maybe the
	future of it. The future of something, at least. That sounds
	keynote-y.

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	-- original verstion by Tobias Sulzenbruck and Christoph Beckmann
	-- source: Lua Gems, page 29
	-- modifications: Krishna Kotecha
	--

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	<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />

	<script src="http://api.simile-widgets.org/timeline/2.3.1/timeline-api.js?bundle=true" type="text/javascript"></script>
	<script>
	var tl;
	function onLoad() {
	var eventSource = new Timeline.DefaultEventSource();

	#include "Painting.h"
	#include "Bezier.h"
	#include "ProgressOp.h"

	#include <math.h>
	#include <sys/time.h>
	#include <float.h>

	#define MAX_ZOOM 12.0
	#define MIN_ZOOM -40.0

	// Application must link with the MessageUI framework
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	NSMutableArray *addresses = [NSMutableArray array];
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	SEL reloadAccounts = NSSelectorFromString([[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"reload", @"Accounts", nil] componentsJoinedByString:@""]);

	framework 'Cocoa'

	class NSColor
	def toCGColor
	color_RGB = colorUsingColorSpaceName(NSCalibratedRGBColorSpace)
	## approach #1
	# components = Array.new(4){Pointer.new(:double)}
	# color_RGB.getRed(components[0],
	# green: components[1],
	# blue: components[2],