Very nice Cal! On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Daniel Sokolowski <elg...@danols.com>wrote:
> Impressive and it more than does satisfy my curiosity; in this industry I > find the moment you start doing custom code it's hard to estimate - > especially on the larger projects. Super thanks > > > On 20/06/2012 20:11, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote: > > Sure - I've no problem sharing! > > The majority of the work went into building the billing system, customer > control panel, integrating into our interconnect providers API, storing > CDRs, call rate groups etc - this was around 80-100 hours. > > However the front end (which you can see) took around 40-50 hours - all > content is generated from an inventory database which maintains the costs > for line items (such as extensions), call rates, handsets and package > costs, this means no template changes are required if there is a pricing > change. > > The handsets page was done from scratch (although the content was > copied) - which took a total of approx 5 hours. This involved finding good > high res/clear pictures of each handset, and doing custom slicing for each > one - so you have that nice zoom effect when you view the item. It could be > made better with animation, but it's a good start. > > There is also a nice little rates look up tool which is able to do > partial prefix matching, and a markup system which lets you apply global > markup rates, and individual rate markups (this means you don't have to > spend 937549554 hours manually maintaining rates tables - very handy) - > that took about 5 hours to get completely integrated. > > I should also note that we have lots of existing code snippets and > libraries that we'd collected and tweaked over the years, so we saved about > 30 hours in re-using code. > > I'll probably do a full write up sometime during the year and go into > more detail, but hope this satisfies curiosity! > > Cal > > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Daniel Sokolowski <elg...@danols.com>wrote: > >> Hi Cal, thank you for sharing and congratulations, I do something very >> similar on my sites but call it a credits page - it is a great place to be >> putting SEO backlinks. On related note would you be willing to share total >> turn around time / hour spent for the site you launched ? And would you >> classify the project as small, medium, or large. >> >> >> >> On 20/06/2012 17:14, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Last week we released a new site into the wild - sadly I haven't had >> much time to contribute to tickets, or even support on the mailing list - >> so felt it was about time I started showing our appreciation for Django and >> its community. >> >> Therefore we created an acknowledgements section on the site - with the >> following: >> >> --- >> Django Framework is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages >> rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. With highly skilled core >> developers, an amazing community of contributors, and more features than >> you can shake a stick at - Django makes the impossible, possible. >> >> We cannot stress enough how thankful we are to everyone involved with the >> on-going development and support of Django Framework - we would not be here >> if it wasn't for the hard work put in by the community. >> --- >> >> We also added a little bit on Roberto at uWSGI, as he's really doing a >> great job: >> >> --- >> uWSGI is a high performance web application server that really is a work >> of art. Our thanks and appreciation goes out to Roberto at unbit.it for >> single-handedly keeping the project alive and kicking - and for providing >> emergency support in our times of need. >> --- >> >> I wanted to be a bit more creative and make something really special, >> like a hand drawn picture of our logo, a heart and the Django/uwsgi logo - >> but sadly ran out of time at the weekend :/ I'm going to see about getting >> this same thing done on all our client sites too, but need to wait for >> approval. >> >> Either way - I think it would be great to see more people doing the >> same thing. >> >> Snippet taken from: http://www.voiceflare.co.uk/ack >> >> Cal >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >> >> >> >> -- >> Daniel Sokolowski >> Web Engineer >> Danols Web Engineeringhttp://webdesign.danols.com/ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. 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