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5 AI Engineering Challenges CTOs Face

5 AI Engineering Challenges CTOs Face

AI writes code faster than teams can review, test, and secure it, but 5 practices close the gap.

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March 21, 2012

PyCon 2012 Wrap Up

As many have said already, any event that kicks off with dancing robots is an awesome sign of things to come during the conference...

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A Solution to Fixed-Bid vs. Hourly Contracts (Part 3)

"Time and Materials" contracts ("T&M" in short) are the only sensible structure for sophisticated software development like we work on at Six Feet Up, but only in concert with a project management methodology that reduces risk for clients...

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February 21, 2012

A Solution to Fixed-Bid vs. Hourly Contracts (Part 2)

A few weeks ago, I wrote about how hard it is to estimate creative projects including sophisticated software development like we work on here at Six Feet Up...

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February 6, 2012

Create Your Own Plone Content Types With Dexterity

Dexterity allows Plone users to create and modify custom content types directly through the web...

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January 30, 2012

A Solution to Fixed-Bid vs. Hourly Contracts (Part 1)

If an auto-mechanic can’t accurately estimate a quick and simple car fix, what hope do software developers have when building something new and complex that’s never been exactly done before?...

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Optimize Your Plone Development by Packing the ZODB
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January 26, 2012

Optimize Your Plone Development by Packing the ZODB

Each time you delete a web page, a copy is kept in the database in case you need to get it back later. Over time, the number of unused objects can grow and grow, expanding the memory needed to operate the website, and slowing down operations...

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January 12, 2012

Set up IPython for Plone Development

IPython is a powerful interactive Python shell that can be used with Zope to aid in debugging issues. Syntax highlighting, tab completion and code introspection are just a few reasons to use it...

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Why PEP8 Makes your Python Development Easier
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January 9, 2012

Why PEP8 Makes your Python Development Easier

Hardly any software is maintained by the original author for its whole life and some claim that 80% of the lifetime cost of a piece of software comes from maintaining that code.

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December 7, 2011

Six Feet Up’s Take-Aways from the 2011 Plone Conference

Six Feet Up was in full force at the Plone Conference this year and here is what we learned.

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