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iPhone Developers Group London & SE meeting

London iPhone Developer meetings 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. London iPhone Developer meetings 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!

Peter Bengtsson

Screenscraping by CSS

By: Peter Bengtsson, 6th of April 2009

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?

Peter Bengtsson

Crosstips.org "helps you solve your crossword puzzles Crosstips"

By: Peter Bengtsson, 4th of March 2009

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.

Lukasz Lakomy

Fry-IT boosts my charity fundraising

By: Lukasz Lakomy, 30th of October 2008

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.

Peter Bengtsson

Programmer Competency Matrix

By: Peter Bengtsson, 1st of July 2008

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.

Programmer Competency Matrix

Peter Bengtsson

My first Grok tutorial

By: Peter Bengtsson, 3rd of June 2008

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.

Lukasz Lakomy

Fry-IT will run in London Marathon 2009

By: Lukasz Lakomy, 24th of April 2008

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.

Peter Bengtsson

Lesson learned on "Save expense" button usability

By: Peter Bengtsson, 13th of December 2007

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.

Lukasz Lakomy

Plone sites in UK

By: Lukasz Lakomy, 7th of December 2007

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.

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Lesson learned on "Save expense" button usability

By: Peter Bengtsson, 13th of December 2007

Plone sites in UK

By: Lukasz Lakomy, 7th of December 2007

Linux Virtualization: OpenVZ vs. Vserver

By: Jan Kokoska, 7th of December 2007

Book highlight: The SAIC Solution

By: Jan Kokoska, 28th of November 2007

change_zope_root_password.py

By: Peter Bengtsson, 19th of November 2007

The virtues of OS-level virtualization

By: Jan Kokoska, 13th of November 2007

Scaling factors comparison for Ocrad

By: Peter Bengtsson, 5th of November 2007

To virtualize, or not?

By: Jan Kokoska, 29th of October 2007

Book highlight: Founders at Work

By: Jan Kokoska, 23rd of October 2007

Server password management is obsolete

By: Jan Kokoska, 16th of October 2007

Standard deviation to eliminate guesses

By: Peter Bengtsson, 9th of October 2007

Is your site ready for mobile?

By: Lukasz Lakomy, 24th of August 2007

Rookie and Veteran navigation menus

By: Peter Bengtsson, 28th of June 2007

iTunes or Amarok?

By: Peter Bengtsson, 6th of April 2007

Great Clouseau product for Plone development

By: Lukasz Lakomy, 26th of January 2007

Playing Amazon music samples on Linux

By: Jan Kokoska, 12th of December 2006

10 largest page sizes

By: Peter Bengtsson, 7th of December 2006

Sales on a Beermat training

By: Peter Bengtsson, 24th of November 2006

Zope3 training course in Denmark

By: Peter Bengtsson, 7th of October 2006

Reliable journaling filesystem in Linux

By: Marcus von Scotti, 28th of September 2006

Fragrance shops need websites too

By: Julika Lamberth, 25th of August 2006

How I refresh production Zopes

By: Peter Bengtsson, 7th of August 2006

Wanna grep wrapper like mine?

By: Peter Bengtsson, 17th of July 2006

How I refresh my Zope products

By: Peter Bengtsson, 19th of June 2006

Getting Things Done: GTD

By: Zahid Malik, 15th of June 2006

WiFi connection profiles on Linux

By: Jan Kokoska, 5th of June 2006

Preventing comment spam the quick way

By: Peter Bengtsson, 8th of February 2006

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

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 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 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 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

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 subsiduary chooses Fry-IT product

GE Enterprise Solutions chooses add on product created by Fry-IT for Open Source Issue-Tracker system.

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