ReadWriteWeb

Andrew Vos has mined Github comits to determine amount of profanity in GitHub commit messages per programming language. He analyzed 929,857 commit messages and found 210 instances of any of George Carlin's seven dirty words.

C++, JavaScript and Ruby developers used the most profanity. PHP and Python developers used the least.

Some variety of Stuxnet is on GitHub. Crowdleaks posted the code but it's uncertain if its the actual source or that of code posted by an organization possibly working on behalf of a government organization.

Stuxnet, as you may recall, is a virus that targets industrial control systems. It's already been given credit for disrupting Iran's nuclear program. We wrote recently how you can protect your organization from a Stuxnet attack.

A few months ago, Nodejitsu co-founder Marak Squires wrote "The day's of resumes and references for developers are slowly dying." Squires sends his Github account to potential employers before he sends a résumé.

With that in mind, check out My Github Résumé, a web application that will generate a résumé from a Github account.

GitHub has become the go-to site for many developers and businesses to host their open-source repositories. The site now boasts over 1.6 million repositories and over 560,000 users.

But a project created this weekend at the Philly Startup Weekend addresses some of the pain-points that both developers and businesses face: how do developers find interesting projects to contribute to? And how do maintainers and businesses find developers who can fill the needs of their projects?

A domain profiler document on GitHub is providing some interesting insights into the services that Y Combinator startups use to host its services.

The breakdown is according to Web host, Email host, DNS Host, Registrar, SSL Issuer and Certificate type.

We chose our top 10 services based upon what trends bubbled in 2010 and the companies and organizations that responded or even set the tone for the overall market.

We looked at the entire landscape but with a particular focus on platforms.

Platforms provide infrastructure and serve as developer ecosystems. Platforms are where apps are created and served.

Developer Matt Biddulph recently released code for calculating the social influence developers in Github based on their location. Marak Squires took the code and lists of the most influential developers in different regions. He notes there are some issues that skew the results, but offers some suggestions on how to improve them.

Seeing a lack stories on the experience of small teams switching from SVN to GitHub, Brian Krausz decided to share the experience he had switching his startup GazeHawk to Git. The team was having some issues with SVN and decided to make the leap. He was able to get the whole thing transfered in one weekend.

Working in an indie town like Portland, I hear geeks drop "GitHub" in their lingo like they did about apps back in the day. Code repositories are hot. They represent how collaboration is moving deeper into development cycles and permitting universal ways to fork code.

GitHub is so hot that the company recruited Eston Bond, a product designer from Facebook. It's of note that Eston is the second Facebook star to take work in the more obscure world of enterprise and developer technology companies. Facebook's Monica Keller recently joined Socialcast, a startup with some well regarded activity stream technology.

But there's another code repository out there that also gets points in the geek circles. It's called Bitbucket and they were just acquired by Atlassian, the company that wants to be the Adobe of the developer world. Adobe has served as the designer's tool box. Atlassian seeks to be the go to source for product development tools.

Oftentimes, when you hear the arguments for "Why open source?", they are aimed at convincing companies to use open source software. But the other piece of the argument is, of course, an argument for why your company should build open source - why it should develop its technology in a community-driven, open sourced way.

Along those lines, Peter Friese, head of mobile development at Itemis recently wrote an article arguing "Why Your Next App Should Be Open Sourced."

He lists the following "pro open source" reasons: