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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »