New TootCompare Affiliate
Our client TootCompare is growing its user base significantly as it provides the Service and MOT comparison engine for the Scoot Network.
DabApps Blog
What'sApp Next?
The big startup news story of 2014 so far has been the acquisition of WhatsApp - for an astonishing $19 billion.
One Silicon Valley source said he believed WhatsApp employed fewer than 100 people. "Probably five people are going to …
We've Teamed Up With CrunchBoards
CrunchBoards is a brand new Financial Intelligence SAAS that aims to give small and medium sized businesses an intuitive, interactive view of their financial information.
Design and development is a collaboration with CrunchBoards' internal IT team. We have project managed …
Most Popular Website 2013
Our client TrustedHousesitters has been voted by the public as 'most popular website' in this years' The Good Web Guide Awards. The award ceremony took place at The Royal Institute where the winners were announced by Holly Tucker, co-founder …
Redesigning Django's generic class based views
Introducing django-vanilla-views: a simplified redesign of Django's generic class-based views.
A recent thread on the Django developers mailing list has been discussing adding class hierarchy diagrams to the documentation for generic class based views.
For me, this thread highlighted …
Brighton Digital Festival: DabApps Open Studio
We're very excited to be involved this year with the Brighton Digital Festival, as one of the Wired Sussex Open Studios.
On the 24th September, we'd like to give the Brighton Digital Festival community an opportunity to get a …
Web API performance: profiling Django REST framework
When discussing the scalability of Web services there seems to be a tendency for some developers to overly focus on the framework being used, based on the mistaken assumption that smaller means faster, rather than considering the architecture of the …
A non-magical introduction to Pip and Virtualenv for Python beginners
One of the hurdles that new Python developers have to get over is understanding the Python packaging ecosystem. This blog post is based on material covered in our [Python for Programmers training course](/what-we-do/python-for-programmers/), which attempts to explain [pip](http://pip-installer.org/) and [virtualenv](http://www.virtualenv.org/) …
DabApps Now Working With TrustedHousesitters.com
We are pleased to announce that DabApps is now the development agency of choice for the highly successful TrustedHousesitters.com based here in Brighton.
Clients Andy Peck and Rachel Martin have over the last couple of years taken their own love …
Some thoughts on learning Python, Django and Objective-C
Last June, I finished at Brighton University and started working at DabApps. Before this point I knew very little about Python, Django and Objective C. As the majority of our projects involve at least one of these technologies there's been …