In using the Repository design pattern, you can hide the details of how the data is eventually stored or retrieved to and from the data store. This data store can be a database, an xml file, etc.

All design patterns can also be found in the GitHub repository. Other interesting tidbits are the impact of signed and unsigned comparisons, mixing floating point datatypes and of course lock-free ...

GitHub has this week pushed a new design on to developers' repository homepages – but many people just want the old interface back. According to GitHub, the general UI refresh to the home page ...