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IWD 2020: Women at DabApps - Who We Are, What We Do
Celebrating diversity at DabApps
Each year, on the 8th of March, International Women's Day is celebrated around the globe, giving women (and people of all genders) the opportunity to demonstrate…
Catrina Baker-Bassett
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DabApps Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Training
We now have 2 Mental Health First Aid champions! Chris and I went on a one day course from Mental Health First Aid England and a couple more colleagues are…
Ali Jarvis
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How can I deliver a great user experience for my customers?
You want to make a great user experience for your app and website, but you’re not a designer - where do you begin? In this article I’m going to: Clarify…
Alistair Power
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Looking back on another year of Corporate Social Responsibility
At DabApps we’re conscious of the impact we have on society. We minimize our carbon footprint by hosting our services using one of the most sustainable cloud services, AWS. Furthermore,…
Narani van Laarhoven
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DabApps does maps - a team adventure in the South Downs
How do you survive a 12k trek over the South Downs on a crisp October day? Simple. You employ the services of Pete Kelly, genial expert of the outdoors, who…
Kirsty Levett
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Five reasons why hosting on Heroku benefits our customers
At DabApps, we are enthusiastic customers of Heroku, a cloud-based platform-as-a-service company. If you commission us to build you a web application, or any system that includes a backend server…
Jamie Matthews
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Women in tech - Django Girls, London 2019
Hi, I'm Rose, a member of the Project Management team at DabApps. My days are usually spent channelling the skills of my team in the creation of fantastic products that…
Rose Morgan
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The problem with laziness: minimising performance issues caused by Django's implicit database queries
Django's object-relational mapper (ORM) is a huge part of the reason for the framework's massive success. The ORM makes talking to databases easy by abstracting away the details of connections,…
Jamie Matthews
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Design discovery techniques for app success - making something the best it can be.
Often people start with ideas for projects and apps (both web and mobile), confident that their pre-existing knowledge, experience and project goals are enough to get going - however this…
Alistair Power
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Programming and Cognitive Load
This post is about how we can take inspiration from cognitive psychology in order to write better code. It gets a little technical in places (especially in the examples), but…
Jamie Matthews
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