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 [...]
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 & [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Tweet No matter how much we try to simplify PlayNice.ly, there will always be some features that we must include. One of these is search. Say “search” to a developer and many will think of MySQL/MyISAM or Lucene. Both of these are pretty rockin’ in their own way. MySQL’s MyISAM storage engine can work as [...]