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Teatime

Winter hasn’t reached Dresden too much yet. But even if there are still 3 or 4 degrees outside – it can be a pleasure to get into a warm house… I guess Tschitschereengreen pictures one of the most hottest spots in town at the moment. We are also getting warm from inside – cause we [...]

Friday, December 19th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Multiple Computer Reservation Systems under one roof

Last week we finished an application for a travel agency, who wished to handle Sabre, Amadeus, Travelport (the company which took over the Travel Distribution Service of Galileo and the Worldspan company ) and others from one source. Means that we built a middleware (service layer) which brings the different APIs from the CRS providers [...]

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 | Posted in Projects | No Comments »

Django meets students

Java, PHP and others are common at the universities curriculum. Django and co. aren’t. Why? Good question. But it is the main reason why tschitschereengreen visited the HTW Dresden last Friday: To give the students some information about Django on Python. For those, who weren’t with us this afternoon, there’s a short summary: » Jirka [...]

Monday, November 10th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

ScrumBurndown-Plugin (Trac)

We tried using the Scrumburndownplugin along with trac (0.11stable-r7507) and PostgreSQL. We got some problems to get it running, therefore here is our soulution: 1) Create manually in PGAdmin3 the table — Table: burndown — DROP TABLE burndown; CREATE TABLE burndown ( id serial NOT NULL, component_name text NOT NULL, milestone_name text NOT NULL, date [...]

Friday, October 24th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Screencasts replacing Project Documentation

Upon a request of a customer, we started creating a screencast for him. This was a pretty good experience for us, because it saved hours of time for the usual creation of a documentation. So what we are going to do in the future is using screencasts for explaining the app to our customers

Friday, October 24th, 2008 | Posted in User Experience | 2 Comments »

No advertisement for iPhone apps

When I opened my google adwords account this morning… I was suprised: 9 of 10 variations of my published ads for iPhone apps, were declined. Why? These 9 ads contain the word “iPhone”- and if I use it, I infringe Apple’s trademark rights. The thing is: I already activated them one week ago!! No restrictions [...]

Friday, October 17th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Push your project on with near time testing

During the past few month we pushed all of our projects on with near time testing. As already mentioned, I phased in this method since a project in july and after working the 1st time with tis method, we noticed following pros and cons of near time testing: » Developers had a faster feedback and [...]

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 | Posted in Projects | 1 Comment »

iPhone App- Shop

Looking at the number of downloads and the turnover of the app shop.., I would say it was a very good deal for Apple to open it this summer- .. is this the kind of information you’ve been waiting for… yes (; ?! Why do we think about this? Because we also are specialists in [...]

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Video applications

We’re receiving more and more video applications. Though sometimes the content ist not that exciting it gives us a chance to get a better understanding of the personality of the applicant. And even a very simple video concept leads to an invitation for an interview…

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Using Sphinx with Symfony

For using Sphinx with Symfony you got to do the following steps: 1.) Install your Symfony app as well as the Sphinx daemon 2.) Configure your Sphinx with proper indizes and start the daemon 3.) create a mySphinxSearch.class.php in your /lib directory 4.) save the PHP sphinx api providey by Sphinx in your /lib directory [...]

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 | Posted in PHP, Symfony | No Comments »