At Evernote our vision is to help the world remember everything. If you want to work in a face paced, highly rewarding environment with some of the smartest engineers on the planet, then come join us ! We are looking for Sr. Security Engineers and Sr. Operations Engineers/DevOps to join our operations team.
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The trend in OS X utility apps the past few years is to throw everything in the menu bar.
My app Committed is a menu-bar based utility since it really doesn't have a UI beyond a menu listing and a preference window. Then there's apps like that one calendar app or the latest Dropbox release that have a window attached to a menu bar item. Other apps like Tweetbot or Evernote are full-blown OS X apps, but put a secondary utility item in the menu bar. It's gotten …
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We reached out to Chris Traganos , Evernote's Senior Web Developer (pictured below), to learn more about his insight behind choosing Foundation, and learn how Foundation helped him and his team build an amazing developer's portal for the company.
What is the Evernote Developer Portal?
Our developer portal is the home of our API documentation and technical resources for building apps with the Evernote platform.
What led you to choose Foundation? …
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In this week's news, we find out how Facebook approaches release engineering, how Evernote solves its Big Data problem, and what trends lie in store for 2013.
* The DevOps Zone discovers how Facebook pushes twice daily to over 1 billion users.
* Evernote reveals how it serves billions of API requests generated by its online application.
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* Steve Souders…
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The links go marching two by two...
Meet UpShot, Screenshot Sharing via Dropbox on OS X - Evernote certainly encouraged a lot of activity in this area when they screwed up Skitch.
Bug Triage - How exposed are you? - And for that matter, do you even bother to triage your bugs?
Listango - Tool for organizing your own bookmarks online. It's refreshing to find one that's explicitly non-social.
ActionArgs - Modify Rails controllers …
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And a happy Thanksgiving to you as well.
Colour Schemes - A whole pile of 'em for Sublime Text 2 or TextMate.
Zuck - Gem to use Facebook's ads API.
Cramp - Asynchronous Ruby web application framework built on top of EventMachine.
Skitch and Evernote: A Letter from Keith Lang - Looks like they're actually listening to user feedback. Amazing.
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…keep them up to date as the landscape continually changes. While some companies do it really well ( Evernote and Wunderlist for example), it's definitely a challenge and one not to be taken lightly.
Leigh Williamson, an IBM distinguished engineer, raises another point you should consider. While you may believe that a particular platform is the one to focus on, you may not have a choice . Your customers may be using two or more platforms equally. If that's the …
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Evernote with a nicely detailed note on a recent outage . A kernel panic happened while upgrading two new "shard" servers with 3x as much RAM, SSDs instead of 15krpm disks, bonded networking, and an updated kernel. They had to revert and shite loves to happen when other shite happens.
Heroku with their postmortem on what happened when AWS went down. They lost 30% of their instances across 3 AZs in the US-East region. Rich detail on the impact of the …
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Creating a new note in Evernote
Sending a tweet
Send an SMS message
Tasks let you use data from the triggers (ie the subject line in an email) in your task. So you could, for example, use the subject of an email to populate the subject of your note in Evernote.
Recipes are pre-made combinations of the other items, created either by the team at ifttt, by other users, or yourself. There are a lot of them, and chances are you will find a lot of them that you can put to use immediately. …
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