YourKent is a community website dedicated to the County of Kent. Popularly known as The Garden of England, Kent has one of the fastest growing populations in the UK, and is a thriving business county, with many leading organizations based here.
YourKent.co.uk is powered by LocalEngine
Interested in building an online marketplace for outdoor advertising for your region?
We can help you!
Our team at DoubleSpring has built a software platform that connects; media buyers, media agencies & media sellers to create an online marketplace for outdoor advertising. We are now open to licensing the platform and managing it for you … under your own brand/website.
All revenues accrued will be retained by your company.
Possible avenues for revenue in the future:
- Commissions on bookings (10-15%)
- Listing Fee / Subscription Model
- Targeted PPC Ads on listing pages (like FaceBook Ads). This will potentially bring in a lot of OOH support companies like printers, designers, creative agency, etc.
For details: contact [at] doublespring.com
LongIsland.com Relaunches With Completely Revamped, Revitalized Design.
Congratulations to Ralph Cristello and his team!
Press Release:
http://www.longisland.com/articles/0312/longislandcom-relaunches-with-brand-new-design.html
Django is considered by many to a great framework for building scalable web applications … in a relatively short span of time. My company specializes in Python/Django development.
Over the last 4 years I’ve found that there is a BIG downside to using frameworks like Django:
The thing is, we are a reasonable/honest bunch of folks providing development services. Our clients expect us to to charge by the hour.
There is no way Django development allows us to make enough money… the God-damn apps get built too quickly for too little.
Its about time we moved to J2EE development … 
DoubleSpring Team outing on Thursday … FUN!
Amoeba Sports Bar (at the Leela Palace) followed by McDonalds
Team DS
We were recently introduced to the PLAY framework and I can tell you that it is the future of web application development in JAVA/SCALA
The Play framework makes it easier to build Web applications with Java and Scala. PLAY is a clean alternative to bloated Enterprise Java stacks. It focuses on developer productivity and targets RESTful architectures. Great for agile software development!
Although we are Django fanboys; I have to concede that PLAY has some incredible advantages in building scalable web apps.
My biggest grouse with Java platforms is repeated and tedious compile-package-deploy cycles. However, The PLAY framework compiles your Java sources directly and hot-reloads them into the JVM without the need to restart the server. You can then edit, reload and see your modifications instantly!
At DoubleSpring, we are in the market for web app development services in the PLAY framework. If you are interested in discussing your project or idea, get in touch with us.
Established in 2001 by Silvia Morales, DowntownMiami.com was officially endorsed by The City of Miami as “an official site for the City of Miami”
The Downtown Miami Partnership (DMP) officially endorsed DowntownMiami.com as well in 2002 and has partnered with the portal on a variety of high profile events and efforts.
Silvia Morales has partnered with DoubleSpring to re-launch the portal in a new avatar:
Check it out: DowntownMiami.com
The DoubleSpring team is playing around with some exciting development tool/platforms and I chanced upon Scala & Lift.
Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages, enabling Java and other programmers to be more productive. Code sizes are typically reduced by a factor of two to three when compared to an equivalent Java application.
Source: www.scala-lang.org
Lift is a free, open source web application development framework for building powerful, interactive, and dynamic applications using the Scala programming language. Scala is purely object-oriented, but, uniquely, it also has support for functional programming, giving you access to features such as anonymous functions, nested functions, curry functions, and higher-order functions. Scala runs in a JVM, making it compatible with Java applications and libraries. These traits mean that web applications powered by Lift can use both Scala and Java class libraries. In addition, Lift applications are packaged as Web Application Archive (WAR) files and can be deployed to any web application server that supports the Servlet 2.4 specification, including Apache Tomcat 5.5 and later.
Details: liftweb.net
We’ve worked on the Spring framework before but there is something very compelling about Lift … possibly because its lightweight and better suited to web development. The only downside with Lift is lack of documentation.
Some very good internet companies have recently moved to using Scala/Lift including the likes of FourSquare, Twitter, LinkedIN, Sony, etc.
Although Django is DoubleSpring’s preferred framework for web application development, we are open to using Scala in projects that are computation & database intensive.
NYC Events, Classifieds, Deals, Photo Gallery, News & Reviews, Neighborhoods, Real Estate, Yellow Pages, Special Offers, Meetups, Video Gallery, Movie Listings, Jobs, People, Discussion Forum, City Buzz, Hotels, Bookmarks, Weather Forecast, and more …
DoubleSpring is a new media startup, specialized in building sustainable businesses online. Our development process combines the most powerful aspects of research, design, technology and marketing to deliver elegant interfaces, thoughtful features and positive ROI.
We seek Passionate Python Developers with some experience in building or contributing to Open Source Projects. We’re constantly rolling out new products so the right individual would be able to write clean code and work in a fast pace environment. We highly value native ability, passion and the right attitude.
FRESHERS with exceptional coding skills will be considered
Requirements:
Be smart and be passionate.
Technical proficiency with Python and Django.
Technical proficiency in JavaScript.
Experience with MySQL / PgSQL.
Unix/Linux expertise.
Experience with MVC design patterns and solid algorithm skills.
1 year of industry experience (or equivalent internship experience).
B.E. in Computer Science or equivalent degree required.
How to apply:
Send your resume to: careers@doublespring.com
