Today, GitHub launched a new application, GitHub Desktop, for both Windows and MacOS platforms. As most GitHub users will know, GitHub already had applications for Windows and MacOS, although they were wildly different experiences on occasion. According to the blog post announcing the release, the new GitHub desktop provides: “a unified experience across both platforms.” Overall, the new app aims to improve collaboration between developers, which is afterall, what Git does best. Extra...
If you’re working in web development you probably fit into one of two categories of developer: You think jQuery is the best thing since sliced images and you couldn’t get through the week without it; or, you think jQuery is a bloated crutch used by people too lazy to learn real JavaScript. However you feel about jQuery, there’s no denying the impact it has had on the industry, and the changes rung in by the Web’s most popular JavaScript library. So this week’s announcement of jQuery 3.0 is...