Off we go! Another year of discovery, excitement, change and quite possibly some daunting challenges awaits our brave developer hearts once more. As we walk bleary-eyed to our desks again, fresh smells of coffee filling the office, it’s an excellent time to refocus – amongst other things – on our technical goals; how we’d like […]
Archive for the 'Development Processes' Category
4 Web Resolutions for 2008Published by January 15th, 2008 in Office Stuff, Ajax, Web 2.0, Client Work, Development Processes, Technologies, Developers Interest, WWW Site, Project Management and Ruby on rails. 2 Comments |
PayPal: Good news for South African eCommercePublished by November 15th, 2007 in Office Stuff, Development Processes, Technologies, Developers Interest and WWW Site. 0 Comments |
South African online buyers can now receive quotes in Rands and make credit card purchases through PayPal.
“Just the other day, I found out that South Africans can now get PayPal accounts and link them to a local credit card. When you buy something, the amount is deducted from your credit card and the system even […]
Rails: Database Search using ‘acts_as_ferret’Published by August 8th, 2007 in Office Stuff, Web 2.0, Development Processes, Agile, Technologies, Developers Interest, WWW Site and Ruby on rails. 1 Comment |
Do you need the capability to run full text based searches on your database? The Ruby on Rails plugin ‘acts_as_ferret’ will enable your application to do this.
‘acts_as_ferret’ is a Rails port to Ferret, the Ruby port of Lucene. It is an ActiveRecord mixin which adds full text searching capabilities to any Rails model.
It also caters […]
Insight, Process, Growth - an Agile StoryPublished by July 31st, 2007 in Office Stuff, Client Work, Development Processes, Bespoke Development, WWW Site and Project Management. 1 Comment |
* this article is loosely related to a real case but is primarily concerned with highlighting some principles about the value of great systems and well run projects.
White Wall Web (WWW) is involved in development projects that have a far greater affect on companies, industries and the economies of the countries in which these companies […]
Design trends on the WebPublished by July 3rd, 2007 in Office Stuff, Web 2.0, Development Processes, E-Marketing, Developers Interest and WWW Site. 0 Comments |
Trends on the Web come and go at a frightening rate. This rate of change is due largely to the nature of freedom that exists around web ‘culture’. There is no one person or company who controls it (Google hasn’t got there yet…), and anybody is free to contribute anything to the online community. At […]
AJAX Fight NightPublished by June 19th, 2007 in Office Stuff, Ajax, Web 2.0, Development Processes, Technologies, Developers Interest and WWW Site. 1 Comment |
Introduction
First up, I have to mention that my first experience in the programming world was with C# .NET. I thought that I would never move to another language never mind leaving the .NET framework.I started working at WhiteWallWeb and the oddity language PHP4. Coming from a completely object oriented approach to the scripting PHP4 pattern […]
Project Management and Time Tracking Tools ResearchPublished by June 11th, 2007 in Office Stuff, Development Processes, WWW Site and Project Management. 4 Comments |
Over the past year we have endeavoured to discover and consolidate the tools that we use to manage project planning, tracking and reporting.
We have a variety of contractual relationships with clients. This adds complexity to consolidating tools across the company especially since each of these relationships has its own project planning, tracking and reporting requirements…
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Spelling in Web Solutoins…Published by May 12th, 2006 in Office Stuff and Development Processes. 1 Comment |
As a company with several Afrikaans engineers, the English spelling on our solutions has been an issue from time to time and part of testing has involved checking spelling.
Spelling errors on web sites, blogs, intranets etc. can be rather embarrassing as they undermine credibility of both the organization and the engineers.
I find the best […]
A useful presentation on using tests as documentationPublished by April 25th, 2006 in Office Stuff, Development Processes, Agile and Technologies. 0 Comments |
Python specific, but has some good general information and principles. Check it out http://www.python.org/pycon/2006/papers/2/pycon06_agiledoc.pdf
Who is flying the Agile flag at CeBIT?Published by April 15th, 2006 in Office Stuff, Development Processes and Agile. 0 Comments |
On the flight over to Hanover (which was badly delayed due to a British Airways screw up) I listened to various podcasts about Agile development methods. I became increasingly excited listening to Mary Poppendieck, Scott Ambler, Ken Schwaber, Cliff Berg and Micheal Mahemoff and reading blog entries by Martin Fowler and others each giving their […]
