October 2008
6 posts
More efficient web browsing w/ ChunkIt
EasyBibbers, I’m sure it seems like every website you visit these days is loaded with fairly pointless advertising. At EasyBib, our goal is to bring our users the most complete, and accurate citation service, period. Though advertising is a part of our site, we make efforts to partner with companies offering services that we feel can actually benefit our users. While working on your bibs, you may...
Oct 30th
Experiencing heavy traffic
Hi guys, We’ve been having intermittent downtime this week. This is due to a significantly higher than expected volume during midterms season. What basically happens is, everyone tries to use EasyBib at once during peak hours and the concurrent usage can overwhelm us. We are working around the clock to deploy a more robust setup. In the meantime, we suggest you use the site during off...
Oct 29th
Columbus Day site updates
Hi all, Happy Columbus Day! Hopefully you are resting on this school holiday, but if you have to work, maybe the updates below will help (though we’d guess you’d prefer the day off…): Internet Explorer Parenthetical Citation Wizard fixes: If you’re a MyBib Pro user, you may have found that the wizard did not work for you all the time. We’ve fixed this issue. ...
Oct 13th
Debate watching
Hey everyone, As election season nears we’ve been asked a few times how students can cite the presidential and vice-presidential debates.  Using the TV citation form, it’s simple. Here’s an example: 2008 Presidential Debate. CNN. New York. 26 Sept. 2008. Personally, I’ve always found the weeks leading up to an election exciting. The twists and turns this race has taken...
Oct 6th
Downtime resolved: 8pm-midnight on 10/6/08
Hi all, If you tried using our site last night, you may have experienced intermittent downtime. We had significant concurrent traffic on our system that ended up locking up some of our front-end servers. We’ve resolved the immediate issue, but are taking steps to prevent this from affecting us long term: Two additional front end servers to be deployed this week Additional RAM upgrades...
Oct 6th
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