Archive for the ‘ iola ’ Category
Being small and agile has many advances, but sometimes people confuse it with being fragile. Although one could argue that betting on a single-vendors proprietary solution would be a more fragile business proposition. Anyway, to make people feel safer buying web systems developed in Django and Python based on Open Source, we have had a [ READ MORE ]
I’ve been very happy enjoying these two pieces of distractions the last week. So happy I’ll write a small blog entry about it instead of just saving it to delicious - Paul Graham on Disconnected Distraction - David Heinemeier Hansson on starting small [ READ MORE ]
I’m very please to announce that we, at iola, have launched a new site for digital artists today. For the 31 days there’s a competition where you can win lots of nice stuff including an exhibition at the center of Copenhagen. The site is coded in Python (Django) and uses varnish for caching. [ READ MORE ]
I made a new release of Nemo 0.2.2 today. It has some nice memory usage improvements and indexing fixes. Plus day view got pagination so that it can handle large number of files on a single day (like an svn update) gracefully. Upgrading is highly recommended. [ READ MORE ]
Did the release of nemo 0.2.1 today. The release is the result of a large amount of massaging of the nemo code to use less cpu and memory (a garbage collector suddently makes these interlinked in a new one is not usually familiar with when coming from a language like C++). Then some profiling and [ READ MORE ]
Had this annoying bug today where something that seemed perfectly resonable just didn’t work. After much investigation it appears that once again brain damage from Java has managed to over into C#. The problem is illustrated with the following code (You can ignore the Tuple for now): public struct Tuple < TFirst,TSecond > { [ READ MORE ]
Long time since I’ve blogged about Nemo. Since the initial release a little over a month ago we have had two major releases, the first one a bugfix release to fix some of the defects reported and the 0.2 release which adds support for beagle through Xesam and lots of other nice enhancements like pagination [ READ MORE ]
Ole, friend and collegue from iola, released flot today. Flot is a Javascript plot library for jQuery released under the MIT license. The release got mentioned on Ajaxian and brought the server this blog is also hosted on to its knees. Several hours later, out server is now up and running again with lighthttp as [ READ MORE ]
I’m very pleased that I can now finally lift the curtain and show what I’ve been spending most of my time working at iola on. It’s been a long ride, but now the alpha release is finally ready for public consumption [ READ MORE ]
So here at iola we use subversion internally. It’s ridiculus that the following use case doesn’t work: <do stuff> svn commit <do stuff> svn commit <I forgot what I had written in last commit log> svn log (local copy out of date, only shows revision before the first commit) svn update svn: Working copy ‘.’ locked svn: run ’svn cleanup’ to remove locks (type [ READ MORE ]
I’m the founder of a small consultancy company with a strong focus on web applications. I’m also the founder of the community art site YayArt, that sells canvas and prints of digital art. My lovely girlfriends blog can be read here.
