Inspired by the great presentations at the Magento Developers Paradise 2011 I’ve been following some of the code created there on GitHub and some of the presenters own projects and here’s 7 great Magento projects you should be following on GitHub:
Magento GitHub Sites
1. 2Boys1Shop / Twoboysoneshop_Configr
Multi-shop configurator shown at MDP 2011
https://github.com/2Boys1Shop/Twoboysoneshop_Configr
2. alistairstead / MageTool
Tool to quickly create now Mage extension frameworks
https://github.com/alistairstead/MageTool
3. dankocherga / MTool
Auto creates files for new Magento module
https://github.com/dankocherga/MTool
https://github.com/dankocherga/MTool/wiki/Manual
4. jirafe / magento-plugin
Magento plugin for Jirafe stats
https://github.com/jirafe/magento-plugin/wiki/Overview
5. firegento / firegento-dynamiccategory
Dynamic category
https://github.com/firegento/firegento-dynamiccategory
6. More Vanish options
http://www.kalenyuk.com.ua/magento-performance-optimization-with-varnish-cache-47.html
http://jirafeinc.tumblr.com/post/6392764424/varnish-caching-with-magento
7. Firegento
FireGento extension with core functionality for debugging Magento
https://github.com/firegento/firegento