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Hi! My name is Hristo Deshev, and I am the new kid on the block here at Wildbit. Well, “kid” is a gross exaggeration with me being almost 30, but I sometimes like to think of myself as just a kid – the only difference from me being 10 is that I have different toys now. :-)

I am a programming language, development tool, and platform junkie with many interests, but at the moment I am serving as a .NET developer for Newsberry. Newsberry is an old project with a huge codebase. And guess what? I have to learn it. I’ve been doing that for some time now, and I daresay I have been making good progress. Here I’d like to share some tips and techniques both on the technological and philosophical level that have proven themselves useful.

We have been using Basecamp for bugs and features tracking for a while, and we have realized that it doesn’t work well for us. We were struggling to make it work until we realized that we needed to search for another tool, since Basecamp is not suited for agile software development. I’ll be reviewing a series of applications in the next few weeks. The first up, Pivotal Tracker.

In Philadelphia we’re really lucky to have car sharing. I am not sure which city had it first, but I am pretty sure Philly was one of them. It started with Philly Car Share, a not for profit company who set out to make car sharing an effective and affordable solution for city drivers. I’d like to walk you through how they took me from being a loyal customer to driving me to the competition.

I’m pretty sure you noticed it by now, but we have a new identity. It was actually a very long and hard process, but it was worth the pain in the end. Want more insights? Keep on reading…

In the quality assurrance field, the main goal is to ensure the quality and reliability of the product. Manual testing is the most common way of testing and it consumes a lot of time. However, there are techinques to shorten the time needed for manual testing by automating time-consuming tasks.

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…