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Received first video application

Regarding to our guideline for application, we received the first video application these days. It was just great and we will call this guy today to ask him vor an interview…

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

What does TTS right now?

Building web apps for a large publisher, a CRM system for the worlds largest car manufacturer, working on projects for Germanys Top Business Angels, improving internal workflows and infrastructure, thinking about better deployment processes, reworking the General Terms and Conditions, thinking about: testing, especially near-time testing, future growth, general strategy, a new office kitchen

Thursday, July 17th, 2008 | Posted in Projects, Python | No Comments »

Near-time testing in software projects

During Iteration 1 of a project run for a big German Publisher, Tina (Project Manager) introduced a new way of testing to our project. What she did for the first time was near-time testing. In all projects before, we always used to have the software tested by the developers during the development process as well [...]

Thursday, July 17th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

Introducing dedicated testing to our projects

While the names of our clients are getting bigger and bigger and our projects volume grow we figured out that testing as we used to do till now (developers do raw testing and the customer does the final testing) does not work anymore. Therefore we were looking around in our company for people who might [...]

Thursday, July 17th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Balkony View of the new office

My last sevenload video. I hate ads in videos… Link: sevenload.com

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »

Reanimate your old PHP app with Django

Yesterday, I tried a hint from Seb for reanimating the old yoosic system by accessing the db directly from Django. The problem was that it is an MyISAM-MySQL-System which is not really cool for the Django way of coding. The hint from Sebastian was trying the legacy database access provided by django, which enables you [...]

Monday, April 7th, 2008 | Posted in Django | No Comments »

Cooperating with experienced IT-Professionals

In the passed week, I was able to initiate a cooperation with a really cool 20-year-experience-IT-professional. He will be coming into our office once a week and beeing available as a coach and discussion partner for our partially really young, highly talented guys… I’m really positive about this and hope that both partys will be [...]

Saturday, March 29th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Yoosic is dead. Or not?

just repaired some minor issues this morning on yoosic.com. And in the next days I will be inserting a new flash player for replacing our current mp3-stream solution. Furthermore I’m thinking about a way, where I can use Django or Symfony to start replacing functions in our current nasty-code-wasted yoosic-app while accessing the current yoosic [...]

Saturday, March 29th, 2008 | Posted in Django, Symfony | 4 Comments »

Django (trunk) Admin vs. (c)memcached

Just ran into errors with Lighttpd 1.5, PostgreSQL, Django (trunk) Admin and using memcached for accellerating the page. The 500er error I got when accessing /admin looked like: File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/core/cache/__init__.py”, line 60, in get_cache cache_class = getattr(__import__(‘django.core.cache.backends.%s’ % BACKENDS[scheme], {}, {}, ['']), ‘CacheClass’) File “/srv/www/www.tschitschereengreen.com/tts/django/core/cache/backends/memcached.py”, line 12, in ? raise InvalidCacheBackendError(“Memcached cache backend requires either [...]

Saturday, March 29th, 2008 | Posted in Django | 2 Comments »

Symfony I18N translation best practice

After trying several tools for making the translation of a symfony project convenient for our customer, I found the following best practice: 1. Install Heartsome XLIFF Translator 2. Modify language codes (Options->Language Codes). e.g. from de-De to de_De and en-GB to en_GB by replacing the dash by a underscore. 3. Open the xml-file with the [...]

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 | Posted in Symfony | 1 Comment »