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I was recently privileged enough to be asked to make an appearance on Django Chat, a popular podcast that consists of long-form interviews with members of the Django community. We…

Social Media Marketing isn’t a role for the faint of heart. Whether keeping up with new developments, such as new features or algorithms, or educating themselves when it comes to…

A few weeks ago, a blog post by software engineer and Python Software Foundation fellow Hynek Schlawack lamented the recent lack of conversation in the Python community around building and…

We now have 2 Mental Health First Aid champions! Chris and I went on a one day course from Mental Health First Aid England and a couple more colleagues are…

You want to make a great user experience for your app and website, but you’re not a designer – where do you begin? In this article I’m going to: Clarify…

At DabApps, we are enthusiastic customers of Heroku, a cloud-based platform-as-a-service company. If you commission us to build you a web application, or any system that includes a backend server…

Django’s object-relational mapper (ORM) is a huge part of the reason for the framework’s massive success. The ORM makes talking to databases easy by abstracting away the details of connections,…

This post is about how we can take inspiration from cognitive psychology in order to write better code. It gets a little technical in places (especially in the examples), but…Programming and Cognitive Load

Following a huge couple of years in business and incredible feedback from the people who matter most – our clients – we thought it was high-time we put ourselves in…

Well done, CrunchBoards! EMERGING ADD-ON PARTNER OF THE YEAR That is the headline coming out of Xero Awards UK 2015 and CrunchBoards co-founder Hannah McIntyre was there to pick up…