Summer 2012 News
It's a busy time for DabApps.
We've been doing some growing and widening our skill base as we continue to attract more and more interesting and varied projects. Some of those projects are on-going, such as our involvement ...
Blog
Building a higher-level query API: the right way to use Django's ORM
*This blog post is based on a talk given at the [Brighton Python User Group](http://brightonpy.org) on April 10th, 2012.*
### Summary
In this article, I'm going to argue that **using Django's low-level ORM query methods
(`filter ...
DabApps Engineering Labs
At DabApps, one of the things we enjoy is being able to run a company the way we think it should be run. We want to build a company that's community focused, and have a positive impact that extends ...
COLPability Launch
We're excited to announce another new project: COLPability, which launched last week, is a compliance tool for firms regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to benchmark their compliance with the SRA Code of Conduct.
Over the past few months ...
Welcoming Tom Christie
A belated Happy New Year from everyone at DabApps! We've been a bit quiet on the blog recently, mostly because we've been working hard on client projects. But we're starting our blogging for 2012 with some exciting ...
Brighton Brains
Last week, DabApps spent an afternoon at an event called "Creative Industries and Creative Researchers", organised by Vitae and held at the new American Express Community Stadium at Falmer. The subtitle for the event was "how university researchers and creative ...
Kickstart web app development with Twitter's Bootstrap
Just over a month ago Twitter released Bootstrap, a "sleek, intuitive, and powerful front-end framework for faster and easier web development". It offers the front end developer an easy and fast way to build web applications using clean semantic HTML ...
Python tools for local continuous integration
The [Python testing ecosystem](http://pycheesecake.org/wiki/PythonTestingToolsTaxonomy) is rich and diverse, with tools and frameworks available for unit testing, load testing, acceptance testing, code coverage analysis, code quality and standards compliance checking, mocking, and almost anything you can ...
Prototyping Pays
We believe that prototyping always brings benefits to the design and development process, and in our recent work with Solicitors Strategic Solutions Ltd this has been proved yet again... they certainly agree.
DabApps website launch
When you're busy with client work, it's easy to neglect your own web presence. But we knew we needed a place to communicate our ideas and experiences as a company, as well as a way to show off ...