Insights
Our insights, views and announcements.
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…
Caroline Pickering
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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…
Max Hurl
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Performance Heisenbugs and Premature Optimisation
(definition from Wikipedia)
Recently we were in the midst of writing some heavy number-crunching code for a web app we are currently developing for a client. This system involves the…
Tony Aldridge
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Be Agile
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…
Caroline Pickering
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Together We're Better
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…
Chris Palk
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Interface 2013
Chris and I were lucky enough to be selected to attend Interface 2013, an event earlier this week that was organised by Shakespeare's Globe in collaboration with Wired Sussex. It…
Jamie Matthews
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Announcing our API backend services
Today we're announcing a new line of services for building bespoke Web APIs for our clients. Our API backend services are aimed at mobile and frontend development agencies who need…
Tom Christie
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Announcement: DabApps training courses starting in March
At DabApps, we're always looking for opportunities to share our knowledge about the technologies we use and the way we work, whether that's through helping to organise local technical groups…
Jamie Matthews
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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…
Caroline Pickering
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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 on April 10th, 2012. Note: this post refers to a very old version of Django.…
Jamie Matthews
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