Here’s a great new feature especially handy for our businesses, education, and government users: Access-via-email lets you set an email domain, and anyone with an email under that domain can grant themselves Contributor access to your wiki. An example will make this a lot more obvious – here at PBwiki we run a bunch ofContinue reading “Super-handy new premium feature: Access via email”
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New feature for premium wikis: Accelerated access and search
The PBwiki team is on our annual office offsite, and we’ve been spending lots of quality time together brainstorming about new product possibilities, ways to make PBwiki more useful to our users, and how to make PBwiki the obvious answer for your online collaborative needs. In addition to the longer-term strategic planning and such, we’ve alsoContinue reading “New feature for premium wikis: Accelerated access and search”
PBwiki = paintball wiki
The PBwiki team is on an offsite this week, and on top of a bunch of regular work we’re doing a couple of great activities — here’s some photos from our paintball session this morning.
PBwiki versus the speed of light
Here’s some timing data for a simple request to one of our development servers. 1 ms – server A (San Francisco) -> server A (San Francisco) 7 ms – server B (San Jose) -> server A (San Francisco) 55 ms – PBwiki office (DSL + Ethernet, San Bruno) -> server A (San Francisco) 137 msContinue reading “PBwiki versus the speed of light”
Unicode support in PDF output
It’s been on our to-do list for a long time but now it’s good enough for general use — our PDF export feature now supports more interesting characters such as what you’d find, oh, anywhere in the world other than the US. We’ve also thrown in image embedding and some basic support for tables andContinue reading “Unicode support in PDF output”
Statshot — PBwiki by the numbers
I’ve been running some internal stats on the various activity levels across the PBwiki landscape. This set of numbers breaks categories down by volume of activity rather than unique users. How much activity on private versus public wikis? Around 2/3 of our activity is on private wikis. Takeaway: Our users have found lots of usesContinue reading “Statshot — PBwiki by the numbers”
No loafing at the PBwiki HQ
And Fridays are very serious. Apparently some kid by our local Vietnamese place was making balloon … pbj sandwiches. They’re not usually that chewy.
Hard drives – a proper sendoff
These drives we’ve pulled from some old servers are about to head to the big drill press in the sky (i.e. destroying them and the data on them) but I’m kinda obsessive-compulsive so I had to sort them into piles by model. Horray, order!
We do [not] like spam
As part of our spam abatement we’ve been doing some research about how to identify various kinds of Spam. The following data is from our test of Spam musubi. Initial results are promising.
Brief PBwiki outage
We and the rest of the world were unable to access our San Jose data center for a few minutes this evening (around 5pm PST) — apparently somebody bumped the wrong fiber optic cable. Your wiki’s data was completely safe and most users were able to access their wikis at all times. We’ve discovered aContinue reading “Brief PBwiki outage”
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