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1 Jul New Code Viewer in Beanstalk

Posted by Ilya Sabanin on July 1, 2009 — 2 Comments

Ilya Sabanin

I’m extremely pleased to announce a new feature in Beanstalk in addition to Search that we launched last week (yes, we don’t sleep at Wildbit). Today we’re launching the new Code Viewer with support for more than 80 (eighty!) language syntaxes and a new improved look. Read on for the juicy details…

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22 Jun Introducing Search in Beanstalk

Posted by Ilya Sabanin on June 22, 2009 — 4 Comments

Ilya Sabanin

We’ve been working on a new search functionality in Beanstalk for a while and today I’m super excited to introduce it to you! Initially we thought about something simple for the first iteration, but I managed to make a full-featured indexed search of commits, scoped by repository or specific user. And there are a few tricks for power users also! Let me show you.

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26 May What happened to OpenID support in Beanstalk?

Posted by Chris Nagele on May 26, 2009 — 12 Comments

Chris Nagele

You may be wondering why we removed OpenID support in Beanstalk. While we love OpenID, it just did not fit with Beanstalk’s system. Since Subversion requires a user/pass (no OAuth love for svn yet), it makes OpenID less valuable.

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18 May Recent Beanstalk outage explained

Posted by Chris Nagele on May 18, 2009 — 0 Comments

Chris Nagele

Last Tuesday around 5pm EST Beanstalk experienced a pretty major outage. It reminded me of the days before we had Engine Yard around. While we do battle with performance issues and periodic slow downs, an outage like this is pretty rare. I want to explain what happened.

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13 May Why we changed the navigation on Newsberry

Posted by Gilbert Guttmann on May 13, 2009 — 0 Comments

Gilbert Guttmann

The new Newsberry has been online for quite some time, and you might have noticed that some things are different. We mostly applied the new look of the public site to the application, but one thing needed a serious overhaul…

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13 May Wildbit at RailsConf 09

Posted by Ilya Sabanin on May 13, 2009 — 1 Comments

Ilya Sabanin

I’ve worked with Rails for 5 years, but since I live in Siberia it’s always pretty hard to find anyone like-minded in my area, except bears and php guys. So this year I wanted to attend to RailsConf badly, and luckily Chris said: sure, why not.

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11 May TeamSupport Integration with Beanstalk

Posted by Chris Nagele on May 11, 2009 — 1 Comments

Chris Nagele

Recently one of our customers, TeamSupport, contacted us about integrating their product with Beanstalk. We decided that our new WebHook integration would be a great place to start, and a few weeks later they came back with a fully functioning integration.

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28 Apr Fresh, new look for Newsberry

Posted by Natalie Nagele on April 28, 2009 — 1 Comments

Natalie Nagele

You may have already noticed that we redesigned Newsberry public to give it a fresh, clean new look. It’s Step Two of the effort we talked about earlier to update the application with not only new features, but also a clean-up of what’s there.

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21 Apr Space Cookies on CNN

Posted by Chris Nagele on April 21, 2009 — 0 Comments

Chris Nagele

In the beginning of the year we helped sponsor Space Cookies, An all-girls FIRST robotics team from the San Francisco Bay Area. They’ve been doing extremely well and were just interviewed on CNN for their competition in Atlanta. Really great work and best of luck!

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31 Mar Beanstalk Update: Incidents, Releases, Upgrades

Posted by Dima Sabanin on March 31, 2009 — 6 Comments

Dima Sabanin

Hi! I’m Dima Sabanin, Rails developer at Wildbit. I’ve been working on some cool new Beanstalk features that we’ll be releasing today. Let me give you a short guide on what we’ve added and changed.

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25 Mar A closer look at Newsberry’s new public site

Posted by Gilbert Guttmann on March 25, 2009 — 3 Comments

Gilbert Guttmann

It was about time that we finally redesigned the public site of our Email Marketing application, Newsberry. I’m very proud that I had the chance to do this – I kind of lurked on this task since I started working at Wildbit.

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20 Mar Newsberry Redesign Sneak Peek

Posted by Natalie Nagele on March 20, 2009 — 0 Comments

Natalie Nagele

A new look for Newsberry’s public site is coming next week, along with some exciting new features. Here is a sneak peek, so be sure to check out the site next week and follow us on Twitter for the announcement.

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17 Mar Newsberry: Target subscribers based on behavior

Posted by Natalie Nagele on March 17, 2009 — 0 Comments

Natalie Nagele

We have released a great new update related to sub-lists feature for Newsberry, which will allow you to control even more efficiently than before to whom you would like to send the email campaigns. From now on, you would be able to create sub-list of all opened, unopened, bounced emails (even by type of bounce) and sub-list of email addresses of subscribers which clicked a link in the campaigns they received.

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12 Mar Deploying Rails apps with Beanstalk and Passenger

Posted by Chris Nagele on March 12, 2009 — 2 Comments

Chris Nagele

Here is a nice write up from Jason Schrader on deploying Rails apps with Beanstalk and Passenger. Jason explains how to use Beanstalk’s deployment feature to quickly and easily release to his server.

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11 Mar Recent Beanstalk delays explained

Posted by Chris Nagele on March 11, 2009 — 2 Comments

Chris Nagele

The last couple days were pretty rough for Beanstalk and our customers. We experience very high load across all of our slices, eventually determining that the performance problem was on our GFS drives that store our application and SVN data. Since we host with Engine Yard, we have nice Nagios warnings about high load, which started to come in on Tuesday. After lots of digging and help from the Engine Yard support team, we were able to narrow down the problems.

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