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We just had a short outage on Beanstalk, which required a quick reboot on our slices at Engine Yard. While this situation really sucks, it happens. The best thing you can do is let people know you’re working on it and update them on the progress. By using Campfire, we’re able to give people an extra sense of comfort that real people are hard at work on the problem. In the end, a negative thing becomes a positive experience.

While we work on improving the performance and speed of our deployment tools, we also wanted to push a small, but important update to the releases interface. The previous interface was kind of clunky and, in our opinion, “was trying too hard” to be ajaxy and cool. Well, we got rid of that crap and kept things simple. The new interface using the same work flow that we use for our integration tools, which creates a consistent interface in our app, reduces code we need to write, and gets rid of any javascript and ajax requests that make things more complicated than they should be. Here are some before and after screen shots.

In one of our recent projects I decided to go with a CSS framework to cut down on development time and simplify work on complex visual grids. Our team already used Blueprint framework on another project and was happy with it, so my choice was obvious.

Hi there, my name is Petyo, and I recently joined the Wildbit team as rails developer. After 7 years of cubicle dwelling, I decided to see what the whole remote work fuzz is about.

Sounds good, does it? I was really excited about the idea of working from home. Thanks to Wildbit I could make it happen. Say hello to freedom, say goodbye to uninspiring workspaces. But having complete choice about how you organize your day can be dangerous. You can easily tend to disorganization, less productivity and motivation problems. Here are some tips how you can fight against this.

Like Beanstalk? If you’re a really big fan, like us of course, we’ve designed some pretty iPhone Wallpaper images that you can add to your iPhone or Touch. Grab them below.

I put together a small set of tips for tracking bugs, ideas, and changes when working with software projects. We’re always trying to find the right balance between organization and simplicity. If you have your own tips, please let me know and post a comment.

During my recent work, I occasionally discovered several nice features in AspNetEmail component , which might be used in ASP.NET web projects while sending bulk emails. Emailing is often required, for instance,

We recently started the private beta for MeetPips.com, a tool to help people track and discuss their currency trading results. We designed and built the application for our client, BabyPips.com.

To say the least, the Wildbit retreat was amazing. It was an all around good time and we discussed strategy, goals, and had plenty of knowledge sharing. We’d like to be as open as possible about our goals and plans. With that in mind, here are some things we are focusing on in the next 6 – 12 months.

We’ve made some great updates to Newsberry recently, including our partnership with SenderScore, new subscriber forms that allow complete customization of fields and forms, and the ability to add users and set permissions for the account and lists.

We arrived in Turkey on Friday night and so far it has been amazing. It’s great to meet with a team of people who you work with each day, but hardly see in person. Some of us have never even met in person, although the first time meeting was as if we’ve always been friends. As Ilya put it, “It’s really great to meet as a team, but even better to now realize we are a group of good friends from around the world.”