DabApps Blog

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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/) …

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 …

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 …

Heisenbug is a whimsical computer programming jargon term for a software bug that seems to disappear or alter its behavior when one attempts to study it. The term is a pun on the name of Werner Heisenberg, the physicist who first asserted the observer effect of quantum mechanics, which states that the act of observing a system inevitably alters its state.

Like most web start ups we spent the early months of DabApps' inception envisioning an ideal world where we would be brimming with great ideas, developing our own apps 'straight off the bat', selling them like 'hot cakes' and enjoying …

Partnering with Creative Agencies

Following a successful year of working with one of the UK's top 10 design agencies, we've been reflecting on what makes such a partnership work so well for a company like DabApps.

Are you the manager …