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About usdjango development experts in Austin, Texas

Who we are

We're programmers and designers with a passion for quality software development...

Django & Python
to do the best work, the best tools help

Mobile web & apps
because the web's going mobile

jQuery
enhance your app with Ajax

Automated Testing
builds reliable, maintainable code


Clients

Works a glimpse into prior projects

Details on project: Tix on the Square (view site)

This is the most active arts event site in Edmonton, Canada. It lists events and allows clients to purchase tickets. From the customer perspective it includes powerful full-text searching, includes maps to venues, calendars, etc. From the box office perspective it has many custom features including:

  • featuring of selected events on the homepage
  • a custom admin interface for listing repetitive events such as theatre events
  • sales reports suitable for sending to promoters who hold events, and for the box office itself
  • unlimited ticket categories and patron types
  • gift certificates

Details on project: Ordoro (view site)

This site is a business-to-business site for owners of web stores on services such as Shopsite, Amazon, and BigCommerce. It handles the rest of the transaction after the purchase, including shipping, tracking, and inventory management. This site is in active use by paying customers. Some innovative features of this site include:

  • XML upload and download from shopping cart software and shippers
  • unit tested code

Details on project: membership database (view site)

This site allows the Edmonton Arts Council to manage memberships and allows the public to become a member or renew. Some key features include:

  • integrated into the organization's existing web site
  • connects with tixonthesquare.ca for credit card payment

Details on project: Half Can(view site)

This site allows users to offer unneeded cans of paint or chemicals, so these don't dry up or go to the landfill. Users who need paint or chemicals can search based on the item needed and location. Some features of the site include:

  • Geographical proximity by table and map
  • Anonymized emails similar to craigslist
  • Potential support for worldwide use

Details on project: Song Rhyme (view site)

This site uses a unique algorithm to generate close rhymes in addition to perfect rhymes. Some other interesting characteristics:

  • hosted on google appengine. This is fully scalable and free up to a certain amount of traffic
  • crowd sourced word database expands as it is used

Details on project: UPS Translation Manager (internal to UPS)

This tool is used by UPS to manage translations for its Adobe Flash marketing messages. Its homepage is customized in around 50 languages, and each of these has customized flash containing translated text. Translators worldwide can log into the system and see the English text that will move in the Flash. Then they translate the text into another language and can preview that translated text in the Flash. Some key features:

  • live preview of flash with translated text
  • concurrency warning - in case more than one translator is working on the same text or the english is changed
  • packaging of translations for use on home page
  • comments and history for communication between translators and managers
  • email reminders on due dates

Details on project: Life List (view site)

This site is for dedicated birdwatchers to keep track of the birds they have seen. Users can enter or import sightings and then display lists by area or time period. Some neat features of the site include:

  • built-in social networking so that birdwatchers can communicate with "birds of a feather"
  • good performance even with large databases (thousands of sightings per user)
  • autocomplete for bird common name or scientific name

Details on project: Space Finder (view site)

This site is a tool for listing or finding real estate primarily for non-profit/artist use. Some interesting features include:

  • A dynamic forms system, which allows new space characteristics to be added without changing the code
Services how can we help you?

We are Austin's Django web development experts
We'll take you from concept through design, programming and hosting of your web application, or help with any stage of that process. Or we can start from your existing application and rapidly add new features or improve performance. We are experienced and reliable.

Why use Django?
Django is a mature open source web application development framework written in Python. It enables faster development and more maintainable code than languages like Java. It comes with a built-in admin interface and better libraries than Ruby on Rails. The open source culture makes for lower costs and better results than closed Microsoft products.

jQuery
Today's web applications use few page reloads. Instead they load content, save changes, and manipulate the page using Javascript, resulting in a more responsive web application. jQuery is the leading library for writing cross-browser compatible javascript. We are also experts in jQuery programming.

Mobile
Iphone and Android versions of web apps are important, as are native apps that access a web server backend to obtain data and communicate with other services. We develop integrated solutions including iphone apps.

Services

  • Django Development
  • Python Programming
  • jQuery Programming
  • Iphone Apps
  • Iphone Web Backends
  • Django on Appengine
  • Django code reviews
  • User Interface Design
  • User Experience Design
  • Performance Optimization
  • Automated Testing
Contact us

Postal address

Zoomflip
1803 Larchmont Dr.
Austin, TX 78704
Telephone:512 585 1015
E-mail: adrian@zoomflip.com

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