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(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.

Awesome PHP Libraries

A list of amazingly awesome PHP libraries that you should be using:

Composer/Packagist - A package and dependency manager.
Symfony2 - A framework comprised of individual components.
Zend Framework 2 - Another framework of individual components.
Symfony2 Components - The components that make Symfony2.
Aura Components - A package of PHP 5.4 components.
Silex - A micro framework built around Symfony2 components.

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<!--
	## SOURCE: xe.com
	-->
	<currency-symbol count="115">
	<entry code="ALL" unicode-decimal="76, 101, 107" unicode-hex="4c, 65, 6b">Albania Lek</entry>
	<entry code="AFN" unicode-decimal="1547" unicode-hex="60b">Afghanistan Afghani</entry>
	<entry code="ARS" unicode-decimal="36" unicode-hex="24">Argentina Peso</entry>
	<entry code="AWG" unicode-decimal="402" unicode-hex="192">Aruba Guilder</entry>
	<entry code="AUD" unicode-decimal="36" unicode-hex="24">Australia Dollar</entry>

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<currency source-url="http://themoneyconverter.com">
	<entry code="ARS" feed-location="/rss-feed/ARS/rss.xml">
	<name>Argentine Peso</name>
	<unicode>
	<decimal>36</decimal>
	<hex>24</hex>
	</unicode>
	</entry>
	<entry code="AWG" feed-location="/rss-feed/AWG/rss.xml">

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
	<states updated="2007-10-17">
	<state>
	<name>Alabama</name>
	<abv>AL</abv>
	<counties>
	<county>Autauga County</county>
	<county>Baldwin County</county>
	<county>Barbour County</county>
	<county>Bibb County</county>

	<?php
	//much of this borrowed from the amazon documentation
	//http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/LowLevelPHPTableOperationsExample.html
	require_once('include.php');

	$response = $dynamoDB->query(array(
	'TableName' => $properties["table"]["TableName"]
	, 'HashKeyValue' => array(
	$properties["table"]["KeySchema"]["HashKeyElement"]["AttributeType"]
	=> $hashKey )

	// Use Gists to store code you would like to remember later on
	console.log(window); // log the "window" object to the console