What are the steps to do a Balsamiq Mockups release?

June 15, 2011 · Posted by peldi in Process & Tools, Videos · 11 Comments

We do a lot of releases at Balsamiq.

After all the code is in and all the devs and testers give the build the go ahead, what are the steps to get the new release out the door?

In this video you see Peldi going through the steps for this release.

The video is sped up 2x, and only minimally edited. Grab a cup of coffee, go full screen, sit back and enjoy! :)

If you see something we could improve, let us know in the comments below, we're all ears! :)

Music credits: songs by "The Bird and The Bee", from their excellent "Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future" album.

Video: A first look at Bazaar

March 5, 2010 · Posted by peldi in Videos · 7 Comments

Hi there. So Luis came to our office in Bologna for a couple of days, which was great.

We took the opportunity to take a look at Bazaar, the source-control system used by Ubuntu, mySQL, GNome.

Luis likes it more than Git, and we've been using SVN all this time, which I hear is "the old way" of working.

Anyways, we thought we'd record the session to share it with you...who knows, it may be useful if you're like me and still don't "get" these new ways of sharing your code...

Warning: the video is unedited and 48 minutes long.

In the end, I wasn't totally convinced but I'm willing to give it a try. We'll port our myBalsamiq code-base to Bazaar after our next beta refresh release and see how it feels.

What do you think? Will we ever go back to SVN?

Peldi