Gondola for Real Estate Launch

Posted by Peter Baumgartner on May 24, 2010. Filed under company news, django, gondola

I’m pleased to announce that Gondola for Real Estate, our GeoDjango-backed real estate CMS is publicly accepting new customers. A couple weeks ago, we quietly re-launched gondolacms.com with some details about the platform and what it has to offer, as well as some sites that have been built on it over the last few months.

History

A couple of years ago, we were building websites for some local real estate agents and realized that what they wanted couldn’t be shoehorned into the popular CMS frameworks available at the time. Somewhat reluctantly, we set out to reinvent a CMS that met their needs written in Django. Eventually, the client-specific bits were extracted and Gondola was created. It has been under the radar for the last few months while we tweaked the system with a small group of early adopters and it is to the point now where we ...

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Lincoln Loop Development Sprints and Limited Time Discount

Posted by Peter Baumgartner on May 18, 2010. Filed under company news, django

Today, we are launching a new offering at Lincoln Loop, development services paid by the sprint. Previously, our typical engagements involved a (sometimes lengthy) discovery, estimation, and bidding process. Lately, however, people have been asking us to jump in with both feet and help them get started immediately. For those people, we think paying for services on a sprint-by-sprint basis will be a great option.

At the beginning of every sprint, you’ll provide us with a prioritized list of user stories, features, or tasks that are to be completed. Our team then dives into the project for a 2 week long focused burst of work. Our goal is to complete as much of that list as possible in the time allotted for the sprint. For development work, that means fully-tested features ready for production. During the sprint, we can provide not only our expertise in Python and Django, but ...

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