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PlayNice.ly now integrates with BitBucket

Posted by rob

Tweet We’ve been working away over the break and are pleased to announce support for BitBucket commit notifications in our latest release. Setting up the integration is easy: 1. In your PlayNice.ly project, go to the ‘Project Settings’ page, select ‘BitBucket’, copy the BitBucket URL and hit ‘Save settings’. 2. Go to your BitBucket repository [...]

Getting Started: Redis & Python

Posted by adam

Tweet We have been covering some fairly complex Redis topics here so far, so I thought it would be nice to do a good ol’ getting started guide. This should get you on your feet with Python and Redis on Ubuntu Linux. So, fire up a terminal window and get going! Getting Redis installed & [...]

Tech/Startup focused product? Don’t support IE

Posted by rob

Tweet When PlayNice.ly was about to enter private beta we had a decision to make: should we add support for IE? Adam and I had skirted around the issue whilst developing the initial version of the app (read: we both program on Macs and never had time to test it on IE) but we had [...]

Redis multi-field searching and filtering

Posted by adam

Tweet This post follows on from A fast, fuzzy, full-text index using Redis. Also, there are still a few places left for the first London Redis Meetup on Wednesday. Searching across multiple fields is a required feature of any bug tracking system. How else would you find that bug which you know Jeff updated a [...]

Python library management with Pip, Virtualenv

Posted by adam

Tweet PlayNice.ly has grown greatly in the many months since its inception. What started as a small Python project on a local virtual machine is now deployed across several environments and servers. This progression has called for a practical way of managing our third-party libraries. We have found Pip and Virtualenv invaluable for this purpose, [...]