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Social Media Marketing isn’t a role for the faint of heart. Whether keeping up with new developments, such as new features or algorithms, or educating themselves when it comes to…

Caroline Hamza

June 19, 2020

A few weeks ago, a blog post by software engineer and Python Software Foundation fellow Hynek Schlawack lamented the recent lack of conversation in the Python community around building and…

Jamie Matthews

May 26, 2020

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

February 18, 2020

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

December 5, 2019

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

November 15, 2019

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

October 9, 2019

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

August 19, 2019

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

March 27, 2019

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…Programming and Cognitive Load

Jamie Matthews

January 21, 2019

How we engineer our applications. Keeping up with the latest technologies in the rapidly changing world of web development can be challenging. You hear terms such as “single-page application”, “API”…

Narani van Laarhoven

January 14, 2019