Beanstalk

As the clock winds down on 2016, there’s a growing emphasis for 2017 and the years to follow. And that emphasis is on the importance for knowledge workers to be able to focus in order to do the...

https://blog.beanstalkapp.com/post/154389767359

Our good friends at Tower have an exciting announcement. Their excellent Git client for macOS is now available for Windows ! It’s written natively with stability and performance in mind. This ...

https://blog.beanstalkapp.com/post/153357527649

If you work in web development, you know how difficult it is to change from one tool to another. It can disrupt your workflow, and adjusting can be an uncomfortable and painful experience. On t...

https://blog.beanstalkapp.com/post/149797803559

Over the last few months on the Beanstalk blog we’ve been covering best practices from commit messages to deployment processes , and to branch management . We thought this would be a good time...

https://blog.beanstalkapp.com/post/149000072049

Any developer can commit code — but knowing when to commit is often up for debate. Most developers will admit that making a commit for every changed character, or keystroke is not best pr...

https://blog.beanstalkapp.com/post/147799908084

In order to have a reliable development process , you must take deployments into consideration. And while using services like Beanstalk or DeployBot are a step ahead of transferring files via FT...

https://blog.beanstalkapp.com/post/146606060099

CORNERSTONE 3 RELEASED We’re excited to share that our friends at Zennaware have announced that the latest version of Cornerstone is now available . Cornerstone has long been our favourite cli...

https://blog.beanstalkapp.com/post/146362501624

Being new to the Wildbit team, I was curious in learning how my new teammates use Beanstalk. At Wildbit, we use Beanstalk’s version control tools to ship every single one of our products. I al...

https://blog.beanstalkapp.com/post/145977128889

Wildbit is a truly remote company with more than half of the team working from around the world. This means we rely heavily on our communication tools. For day-to-day communication, we use Slack,...

https://blog.beanstalkapp.com/post/145256972519

Any software development team that values their code knows the importance of testing. It’s a process used for validating code quality, and functionality. Testing is often thought of in the cont...

https://blog.beanstalkapp.com/post/144815485419

In comparison with most version control systems, creating branches with Git is effortless. Before the standard branch process, software teams used various methods to add features and fix bugs. No...

https://blog.beanstalkapp.com/post/143216181984

In the current state of web development, it doesn’t take much work to put tools in your tool belt. Finding the options for any given job is quick work and the biggest challenge you’ll face is...

https://blog.beanstalkapp.com/post/141906921099

“Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” - Martin Fowler Have you ever read a line of code and thought, “this is great, but I’m not sure I understand what’s making it...

https://blog.beanstalkapp.com/post/141439075429

Security is a big deal here at Wildbit . For us, it’s not just mere lip service. We value your code as much as you do, and are committed to keeping it secure. But how can you be sure? There are...

https://blog.beanstalkapp.com/post/135397911694

Detailed commit messages are an essential part of any good development process. Have you ever read someone else’s commit message, and wondered what on earth were they doing? Perhaps you’ve ...

https://blog.beanstalkapp.com/post/134929320564

One of the more exciting aspects of working as a team is adding new team members. But after going through the process of adding the new potential all star, reality kicks in: internal onboarding i...

https://blog.beanstalkapp.com/post/134466186744

Today we’re happy to introduce an enhanced and more useful dashboard. Our team uses Beanstalk every day and we felt like the current version needed some love and some key features. And you — ...

https://blog.beanstalkapp.com/post/134343423054

Hey folks, Summer is a time for kicking back and enjoying the cool breezes off the water. But it’s also a good time to take a step back to review things, then do a little maintenance on your ...

https://blog.beanstalkapp.com/post/127096543174

We rolled out a couple of small updates this week that could give you and your team a boost with your workflow. CREATING REPOS Until this week, only Beanstalk account owners and account admins...

https://blog.beanstalkapp.com/post/125433520779

At just over two hours of downtime, today’s outage deserves some details and explanation. It was one of the more significant outages we’ve had in our eight years in business. This severely im...

https://blog.beanstalkapp.com/post/122795296704