Vuvuzela and some of its many meanings [https://www.flickr.com/photos/jikatu/4741686942] by Jimmy Baikovicius [https://www.flickr.com/photos/jikatu/] You've always been able to individually @mention your teammates in Gitter chat rooms, but today we're rolling out a new feature where you'll be able to @mention everyone in the room using @/all. In order to keep the noise down, in repo rooms we're only…

Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] Using upstart to detect node.js app crashes Here at Gitter [https://gitter.im] we love writing node.js applications, but like any real-world application, things occassionally go wrong. Nine times out of ten, this is down to an unhandled exception in node.js (although we're seeing a lot less of these since we started using promises extensively). node.js crashes We wanted a way of detecting process crashes…

Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] Why LiveCollections? Gitter [https://gitter.im] is a realtime collaborative application. Having a real-time, push-based application, where updates are automatically reflected in the client, is essential. We were keen to leverage the power of Backbone.js, so we decided to extend Backbone with real-time Live Collection capabilities to enable realtime push in Backbone collections. Our aim: create a real-time drop-in replacement for Backbone collections that plays…