When PBwiki 2.0 launched, it included lots of great new features, but one thing stayed exactly the same: the notification emails you got when somebody changed a page on your wiki. We fixed that today — here is a sneak preview of the new version of notifications. The new notifications… Let you see all changesContinue reading “New email notifications for your PBwiki 2.0”
Category Archives: Geek
PBwiki
That’s geek code for “PBwiki loves South by Southwest!” One of the advantages of a tool that’s simple to get set up and running with like PBwiki is that you can use it to make quick, ad-hoc workgroups at conferences like South by Southwest. If you’re looking to post your own itinerary or put togetherContinue reading “PBwiki”
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”
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”
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!
PBwiki Wall Computer
So we like to have fun here, too. You just can’t help but want to hack on neat projects with such talented engineers around, so Nathan, Brian, and I put together a computer that is attached to our wall with thumbtacks, displays hundreds of silly cats, and makes a sound whenever interesting things happen atContinue reading “PBwiki Wall Computer”
Curious about PBwiki privacy and security?
We’ve had a few people e-mail us with questions regarding the privacy and security of PBwiki. Is PBwiki secure? Is it managed by a 3rd party? Are PBwiki servers sitting in some guys living room or running at an appropriate colocation center? In an e-mail written to one of our users, our master chief, DavidContinue reading “Curious about PBwiki privacy and security?”
PBwiki is now a billion times faster!
OK, not a billion times, but more like 6 times faster than we were a month ago. When we first started out, PBwiki was super-fast because there wasn’t much going on. As we’ve grown two things have happened – first, we’ve added lots of useful features and second, we now have lots more traffic allContinue reading “PBwiki is now a billion times faster!”
Whither pagers?
Earlier this week we had a service outage. The proper chain of events would be: 00:00:00 Server problem 00:00:03 Monitor processes notice problem, send page to admin’s phone 00:00:10 Phone rings with new message 00:00:30 Admin logs in to server, fixes problem 00:01:00 Problem resolved But what happened was: 00:00:00 Server problem 00:00:03 Monitor processesContinue reading “Whither pagers?”
RSS & Atom Feed "Leaks"
Dear wiki owners, A few people have been surprised recently when their users accidentally republished information from private wikis to the world at large by way of an RSS / Atom feed. Here is the low-down on how this can happen and how you can avoid it. Your users must be careful when using aContinue reading “RSS & Atom Feed "Leaks"”
PBworks Official Blog 