Garry Tan, president and CEO of Y Combinator, recently posted about why Ruby on Rails plus Claude Code is a “crazy unlock.” Rails is designed around strong conventions, predictable patterns and expressive DSLs.
Pretty much every International Women’s Day I find myself reflecting on the pace of change in our industry. This year my thoughts have focused more on what the rise of AI means for equity and representation in technology.
AI agents are already starting to change how work gets done inside organisations. But AI isn’t magic: like any transformation project, you need structure. Now we’ve gathered some experience doing this in the real world, I think it’s time to boil it down to a catchy slogan.
A practical, proven approach to structuring Django projects that need to last. RAPID distils more than fifteen years of real-world experience into simple patterns that keep codebases clear, maintainable and easy to evolve.
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
