Archive for the ‘Software Development’ Category

Get rid of manual quality control

Monday, March 29th, 2010

After reading recent Eric Ries piece in HBR, one thought was bouncing my head... What are such rules for software development service companies, like mine 42 Coffee Cups, that does Python, Django web development? Some things in Eric's article resonate quite closely to me. For example, when a stupid bug ...

How to convince boss to use TDD

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Some time ago I was contacted to find arguments to introduce Test Driven Development into a company process. Or, at least, start doing some automated tests. Quick chat revealed that, while doing iterative development and having dedicated QC team, during the 2 year age of the product, the pace of ...

Automated django deployment

Friday, March 19th, 2010

We at 42 Coffee Cups do alot of django projects. Additionally I care about developer staffing, which means one more test project per candidate. That totals to about 20 commercial and internal projects any time and 10-15 test projects. That's not a trivial amount and, given we deploy projects onto testing/staging ...

Changed comments engine

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Tired fighting comment spam and blocking useful discussions. Thus switched from native WP comments to disqus. The only drawback I see is that disqus failed to import old comments properly.

Django CouchDb adapter 0.1 released

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Although found couple not-so-minor bugs at last moment (as usual), django couchdb adapter is functional enough to support most of standard django admin. Project trac: http://trac.khavr.com/project/django-couchdb/ Repository: http://github.com/42/42-django-couchdb/

Lean startup twitdump

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Who to follow on twitter if you're interested in lean startups: #leanstartup tag @ericries @sgblank

Launched 42 Coffee Cups

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Finally we've launched our software development service under 42 Coffee Cups brand. Q. Why 42? A. Because that's the answer! :) Q. Why Coffee Cups? A. Because developers are beings that transform hot coffee into a successful software :) Feel free to ask your question :) Visit our team site at http://42coffeecups.com and follow us on ...

UI sketching and prototyping tools

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Now reviewing tools and services to quickly sketch and prototype user interfaces. I've been advised to check balsamiq mockups. What puts me off is: either a desktop version or a limited list of tools it could integrate into; no trac integration steep price tag, esp for an non-desktop version nearly free-hand drawing, I'd ...

Client or service to summarize twitter updates?

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Does anyone know a twitter client or a service that would summarize the twits of people I'm following? Ideally it would allow me to follow a subset in a real time and give a summary of all other peoples, preferably grouped by topic they've touched... Anyone?

Requirements for django A/B testing tool

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

Thought recently about an A/B testing tool to use in our django projects... My requirements are: Survive model changes. That's other version of the app under test may use a different schema or totally different db. I guess that automatically rules out plain middleware approach.. May target specific category of visitors/users. ...