Fry-IT offers web and mobile solutions for small to large enterprises
We have helped our clients:- Increase revenue by using our technology
- Improve their brand identity
- Work and communicate much more effectively with their clients
- Control their online content
- Take the stress and worry out of dealing with technology
Company blog
iPhone Developers Group London & SE meeting
We're pleased to held second London iPhone Developer Meeting in our office. You can join the LinkedIn user group which is THE place to reach group members. Meeting announcements and registration takes place there as well.
There was great talks on the meeting given by Damien (How To Download Data to your Devices) which was an introduction to the HTTP communication on the iPhone. 
Showing synchronous and asynchronous communication as well as a solution for downloading big amounts of data. Lucky me, I just needed this to my first iPhone app!
Charles talked about the whole development cycle of the iPhone app from writing code to the AppStore. Great talk and also valuable discussion after how bad Apple sometimes is when evaluating your application. Also that we can except quite a slow down of the whole process when OS 3.0 is out.
Again awesome meeting and great opportunity to learn and share your knowledge!
Screenscraping by CSS
A lot of developers know how to use an XML parser and manipulate a DOM tree. Some developers even know how to use BeautifulSoup to download some broken HTML and parse its generated DOM tree. But how many know how ridiculously easy it is to parse and search this DOM tree with CSS?
Crosstips.org "helps you solve your crossword puzzles Crosstips"
I've launched a new fun service called Crosstips in Django. It was my first Django project that fully uses I18N (Internationalization) since it's available in Swedish and English.
Fry-IT boosts my charity fundraising
I'm running Flora London Marathon in few months. To do that I'll need extraordinary physical condition. But it is not enough. I also need to raise some funds for Sense - charity that provided me with Gold Bond (like a ticket for that event).
Last Friday I've received a really nice cheque from Marcus, Fry-IT's "financial director" for £1000.
Programmer Competency Matrix
If you're a Level 0 IT recruiter/HR hiring a programming you wouldn't even understand what to do with this. If you're Level 1 you would you would try to use this but get most of it wrong and end up not benefiting from it much. If you're a Level 2 you'd use this and be able to ask all the right questions. And lastly, if you're Level 3 you wouldn't need this stuff because you're probably already a Level 3 programmer.
My first Grok tutorial
This is my first published full Grok tutorial which I'm quite proud of. In my view it manages to keep things very simple and easy to follow even if you're not a senior Grok developer and shows a very powerful pattern.
Fry-IT will run in London Marathon 2009
Not whole company, just me :) I'm hoping for a big support, encouragement not to mention some sponsorship. So there are two major challenges. First is to ran 26 miles and 385 yards without injury and not to die at the end. And it is not simple. I'm a beginner and I've never run, but it doesn't discourage me. If 35000 people can do it, even 80 years old - I can do it too! The second challenge is to raise funds for charity. I'm running for Sense that helps disabled people.
Lesson learned on "Save expense" button usability
Yesterday I sat down with a lady and introduced her to SnapExpense and I stayed whilst she was submitting the first expense. Between the talking I shut up and just sat back observing what she was doing how she reacted. A cheap and quick usability study. I learned a lesson about the "Save expense" button on a form.
Plone sites in UK
How many Plone sites are in UK? I was wondering about this for quite a long time. So I've decided to somehow count those sites. Instead of months of manual labour I wrote a simple spider (Python script) that crawled the web for me. Read more to find out the results.
From the archive...
Lesson learned on "Save expense" button usability
Plan International Site Goes Live
Fry-IT are proud to announce the creation and launch of Plan International's new content managed website. Founded over 70 years ago, Plan is one of the oldest and largest international development agencies in the world.Fry-IT sponsors EuroDjangoCon 2009 in Prague
This years EuroDjangoCon is in Prague and since Fry-IT has very good relationships with the Czech Republic we think this is a very good opportunity to learn more about Django, make some new contacts and see some familiar faces. Get in touch if you are in Prague between 4/5/2009 and 8/5/2009.
UpdateSpotted on Flickr
Fry-IT launches Digital Public website
Fry-IT is proud to announce the launch of a new Plone-based website for innovative public sector consultancy Digital Public.
Jonathan Akwue, Managing Consultant at Digital Public, said “Creating a website for a new media consultancy like Digital Public was always going to be a challenging task. We had very high expectations and exacting standards. The team at Fry-IT were able to respond to our (sometimes unreasonable) demands and worked flexibly to ensure that we got the design and functionality of the website right.
Having launched the site, feedback from our staff and clients has been overwhelmingly positive.”
Fry-It is Gold Sponsor for Plone 2008 Conference
This year Fry-IT is sponsoring Plone 2008 in Washington DC (8th to 11th of October 2008). The conference brings together about 400 or more Plone developers and enthusiasts from around the world.
MerbOutpost
We decided to bring this years MerbCamp to Europe and we therefore we organized MerbOutpost. MerbOutpost is an event where Merbists who can't make it to the USA can get together, watch the MerbCamp live and meet other people interested in Merb.
Fry-IT aims to save Hampshire/Surrey CAMHS £10k per year
Fry-IT Director Marcus v. Scotti is confident that a new SMS reminder system launched with their tried and tested patient record system CAMHS Reportage will save Hampshire PCT and Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Trust up to £10k per year.
Saint Gobain choose Fry-IT for custom development
Saint-Gobain Corporation is one of the worlds top one hundred industrial corporations and have chosen Fry-IT for custom software development.
Great Ormond Street Hospital and ICH choose Fry-IT
Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Institute of Child Health choose Fry-IT for significant development and support contract for their Content Managed Intranets and Websites.
FlashVideo 0.8 released
First public release of this product. The main goal is to make streaming videos in Plone easy.
GE subsiduary chooses Fry-IT product
GE Enterprise Solutions chooses add on product created by Fry-IT for Open Source Issue-Tracker system.