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
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.
Linux Virtualization: OpenVZ vs. Vserver
Article version: 1.1 (incorporated feedback from Herbert Poetzl)
Today I will compare relative merits of the two main players in opensource Linux OS virtualization (note the differences to para- or full virtualization explained previously), the venerable Linux-VServer project and a relative new-comer, the commercially backed OpenVZ.
Book highlight: The SAIC Solution
The SAIC Solution
chronicles one American technology corporation that grew to long-term success
($8bln. revenues) while motivating its employees by shared company ownership and high
degree of autonomy.
change_zope_root_password.py
Here's a little quick script I put together to change a password of a Zope root user with the Manager role.
We needed this script since we often want to change the root password of many Zopes at the same time instead of having to manually log into each and change it.
The virtues of OS-level virtualization
After deciding that virtualization is the way to improve efficiency in server infrastructure, one faces a choice from a vast number of technology options to realize that improvement. There is hardware assisted virtualization, paravirtualization, operating system level virtualization, each with a number of concrete options from various vendors and open source communities.
Scaling factors comparison for Ocrad
Short story: 3
Longer short story: The best scaling factor for Ocrad is 3
To virtualize, or not?
Do you have servers in your organization? Are they virtualized already? Let's have a look into some benefits of server virtualization so you could make your own opinion whether it would be the right thing to do in your environment.
From the archive...
Scaling factors comparison for Ocrad
FlashVideo 0.8 released
First public release of this product. The main goal is to make streaming videos in Plone easy.
ZTinyMCE 0.1.3 released
ZTinyMCE 0.1.3 includes the latest version of TinyMCE version 2.0.9. It has loads of fixes and improvements.
ZProtx 1.0 released
First release of product that nicely integrates Protx credit card payment to Python and Zope.
ZSQL released
ZSQL is a plugin for Zope Python product developers who want to use ZSQL Methods in their product without using the ZODB. Apart from taking care of all the setting up based on reading the .sql files it also supports a couple of advanced features that normal ZSQL Methods don't support.
An announcement was made on zope.org about it if you want a quick summary of those added advanced features.
ZPTDebugger 1.1.0 released
Next release of this product. Main features: compatibility with Zope 2.10 and Record Mode. Download from www.llakomy.com
ZPTDebugger 1.0.0 released
First stable release of a product that allows viewing of all TAL/Python expressions used in template rendering.
Orange photography hosting

Fry-IT are chosen as Inamobile's hosting & technical partner for Orange's new mobile photography application.
ZTinyMCE 0.1.2 released
ZTinyMCE 0.1.2 includes the latest version of TinyMCE version 2.0.8. TinyMCE 2.0.8 has had 75 fixes and 21 features added to it since version 2.0.6.1 which was the previous version that ZTinyMCE used. Please install and let me know if it doesn't work as expected.
MOD Defence Academy Development

Fry-IT have won a contract with the MOD Defence Academy to help them develop and improve their Intranet systems. We are helping them develop and improve several areas from scalability and high loads to authentication and integration into existing systems. The Defence Academy has been at the forefront of bringing the advantages of Open Source into government. Fry-IT are experts in the Content Management System technologies chosen by the Academy: Zope and Plone.
Fry-IT win NHS Hosting Tender

NHS Connecting For Health National have awarded a competitive tender to Fry-IT. The tender was for outsourcing their hosting & systems solution for their various Intranet, Content Managed Systems (CMS) and other web applications. This is a significant win for us and our expertise in high-load, high availability solutions and in Zope/Plone CMS technologies was a significant factor.