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Two Great iPhone Apps for Beanstalk – Win a free copy!

Published at Beanstalk

We are excited to announce two iPhone apps made specifically for Beanstalk – Habichuelas by Microedition Biz and Magic Bean by Andrew Yates. Both of them provide access to the repository activity on the go with some unique features. Read on to find out more, and find out how to get a free copy of your favorite app for yourself!

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Improving commit email notifications

Published at Beanstalk

Recently we decided to improve our commit email notifications. They are used by cusotmers for code reviews and staying up to date on changes, but the experience was poor in some email clients. The biggest problem was from messed up line numbers and buggy scrollbar behaviour, plus we wanted to refresh and clean up the UI a bit.

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Iterating on the welcome email

Published at Beanstalk

We recently redesigned our welcome emails and I want to share the process we went through.

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What’s New: Keyboard Shortcuts

Published at Beanstalk

To speed up interaction with Beanstalk we released the first set of keyboard shortcuts. Now it’s possible to show previous and next changesets, file revisions and releases with your keyboard only.

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HTML5 on Beanstalk’s landing site

Published at Wildbit

I was excited and eager to try HTML5 in a real project for a long time, so when we 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.

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Impressions of the Blueprint CSS Framework

Published at Wildbit

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.

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OmniFocus Tips

Published at Wildbit

When Omni Group announced OmniFocus I was really excited. Being a GTD fan for several years I tried most of the Mac and web applications based on this methodology, but was never fully satisfied. After some time I came up with own system based on Yojimbo, but it wasn’t good enough — after all these apps were built for different purposes. So, after several days playing with OmniFocus beta version during the New Year holidays I decided that it is what I was looking for.

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Continuous process of self-improvement

Published at Wildbit

Great lawns need small amounts of daily care, and so do great programmers.

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Ligatures in Mac OS X

Published at Wildbit

Apple is known for their attention to detail and producing stunning user interfaces. Recently I found a nice typography touch in the Mac OS X interface that got me really excited.

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