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22nd February 2010 - Link Blog

Ryan Tomayko on Github's development process. In the comments—a fascinating insight in to how GitHub’s “developers work on whatever is most interesting to them” process manages to achieve really good results.

Posted 22nd February 2010 at 9:18 am

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