{"id":4106,"count":2,"description":"Recently acquired by Microsoft, GitHub is a web-based hosting service - almost a <a href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tag\/social-media\/\">social media<\/a> of sorts - for version control using <a href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tag\/git\/\">Git<\/a>.\r\n<h2>Version Control<\/h2>\r\nWhile the <a href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tag\/version-control\/\">version control<\/a> services alone are good, what makes GitHub so powerful, and such a resource to the <a href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tag\/open-source\/\">Open Source<\/a> software world in particular (as well as closed source and private projects) is the collaboration it affords.\r\n<h2>Collaborate on Code<\/h2>\r\nTools like issue tracking, feature requests, task management as well as merges and Pull Requests are all handled in a pretty seamless web-based interface.\r\n<h2>A Part of Microsoft<\/h2>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tag\/microsoft\/\">Microsoft<\/a> closed its purchase of GitHub for USD $7.5billion on 26th October 2018.\r\n<h2>A brief history of GitHub<\/h2>\r\nGitHub was\u00a0developed by Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett, Tom Preston-Werner and Scott Chacon, built using Ruby on Rails in February 2008.","link":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tag\/github\/","name":"GitHub","slug":"github","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/4106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=4106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}