Yesterday, I (proudly) sent the following mail to the office:
“We have just officially entered PersonL (last minute) into this years TechCrunch50 Contest
We had half applied, decided it was too late, and then they mailed me yesterday and asked me to complete the entry by tomorrow…
So we got cracking and churned out a much upgraded web […]
Off we go! Another year of discovery, excitement, change and quite possibly some daunting challenges awaits our brave developer hearts once more. As we walk bleary-eyed to our desks again, fresh smells of coffee filling the office, it’s an excellent time to refocus – amongst other things – on our technical goals; how we’d like […]
South African online buyers can now receive quotes in Rands and make credit card purchases through PayPal.
“Just the other day, I found out that South Africans can now get PayPal accounts and link them to a local credit card. When you buy something, the amount is deducted from your credit card and the system even […]
Do you need the capability to run full text based searches on your database? The Ruby on Rails plugin ‘acts_as_ferret’ will enable your application to do this.
‘acts_as_ferret’ is a Rails port to Ferret, the Ruby port of Lucene. It is an ActiveRecord mixin which adds full text searching capabilities to any Rails model.
It also caters […]
* this article is loosely related to a real case but is primarily concerned with highlighting some principles about the value of great systems and well run projects.
White Wall Web (WWW) is involved in development projects that have a far greater affect on companies, industries and the economies of the countries in which these companies […]
Trends on the Web come and go at a frightening rate. This rate of change is due largely to the nature of freedom that exists around web ‘culture’. There is no one person or company who controls it (Google hasn’t got there yet…), and anybody is free to contribute anything to the online community. At […]
Introduction
First up, I have to mention that my first experience in the programming world was with C# .NET. I thought that I would never move to another language never mind leaving the .NET framework.I started working at WhiteWallWeb and the oddity language PHP4. Coming from a completely object oriented approach to the scripting PHP4 pattern […]
Over the past year we have endeavoured to discover and consolidate the tools that we use to manage project planning, tracking and reporting.
We have a variety of contractual relationships with clients. This adds complexity to consolidating tools across the company especially since each of these relationships has its own project planning, tracking and reporting requirements…
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As a company with several Afrikaans engineers, the English spelling on our solutions has been an issue from time to time and part of testing has involved checking spelling.
Spelling errors on web sites, blogs, intranets etc. can be rather embarrassing as they undermine credibility of both the organization and the engineers.
I find the best […]
Python specific, but has some good general information and principles. Check it out http://www.python.org/pycon/2006/papers/2/pycon06_agiledoc.pdf
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