Customer Story: NMSU Learning Games Lab
This week we’re feating the New Mexico State University Learning Games Lab, who uses Beanstalk to host their Flash and iPhone multimedia projects. I caught up with CC Chamberlin, here’s what he had to say:
This week we’re feating the New Mexico State University Learning Games Lab, who uses Beanstalk to host their Flash and iPhone multimedia projects. I caught up with CC Chamberlin, here’s what he had to say:
We’ve had Git in beta for a couple of months now and the feedback has been great. Now that we’ve worked on some issues and tested the workflow, we thought it was time to release it to all accounts. Adding Git support is a big step for Beanstalk, here are some of the decisions and details that we went through.
We’ve made a small update to the repository overview page. You can now instantly subscribe to email or rss notifications directly from the repository overview page. Below the repository url, you will find two new links and options to update your notification settings. We’ve also set the default setting to “off” for email notifications, making it a bit less annoying for those who don’t want to receive email notifications on each commit.
Today we released a pretty big update to Beanstalk, including web hooks for deployments, Git integration for web hooks and Lighthouse, and many small improvements. Here is the full list:
We’re thrilled to introduce our next customer story, Happy Cog. We reached out to Mark Huot in their Philadelphia office to learn more about how they use Beanstalk for their business. Here’s what he had to say:
This morning we launched a really nice addition to Beanstalk. For each changeset in either Git or Subversion repositories, you can now post comments to discuss the changes and provide feedback on specific lines of code. We feel this will go a long way when it comes to team collaboration. Even better, comments are also accessible via our API. Here’s a quick screencast on how it works.
We just came across a great tutorial on using Beanstalk with Basecamp integration from Avi Tzurel at Kensodev.com. It’s very well written and includes some fantastic screen shots. In his words:
We just noticed a nice review of Beanstalk over at Garry.tv. It includes a great screenshot tour of some of the more useful features Beanstalk has to offer.
As you may have noticed, Beanstalk had a pretty big update today. The main changes are a combination of code and design improvements as part of our final 2009 clean up. We aimed at improving the small items and managed to fit in some larger updates as well, the most noteworthy being Git support. A few people asked for a changelog, so here is the short list:
This is our second customer story, where we feature customers who use Beanstalk in their business process. This time we’re featuring ShootQ, which automates the tedious business processes for professional photography and videography studios and gives them the freedom to focus on what they love – building their business, investing in their relationships, and giving [...]