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Since the early days of Beanstalk we have been using our Twitter account for status updates and maintenance notices, but it became obvious that a separate status page was needed for better communication. Twitter is a great way to learn about problems or maintenance, but only for people who check it all the time. People who are not on Twitter or don’t follow us have to check our Twitter stream which can be cluttered with replies or retweets and not clearly display the current status of our services.

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A month ago, Wildbit released a mobile-optimized view of Beanstalk which is very handy for code-collaboration on the go. While researching for this project, I was surprised to find that mobile usage is slowly passing usage of IE 6-8 at Beanstalk. It’s like a dream come true!
Mobile isn’t just in the browser
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We’re looking to hire a Rails developer to help grow and support our apps: Beanstalk and Postmark (with a primary focus on Postmark). A minimum of 2 years experience in building Rails apps is required. Email jobs@wildbit.com or continue reading.

I was excited and eager to try HTML5 in a real project for a long time, so when Gilbert redesigned the Beanstalk landing site I was fully armed for coding it. The web doesn’t need one more HTML5 overview, so this post will focus on 5 things I liked the most during the project.

We’re migrating Beanstalk to a new environment at Rackspace. Read more about our decision process, the migration, and what you have to look forward to as a Beanstalk customer.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.