After 8 years, we have updated our logo.
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March 8, 2010 • 10:47 am 0
BizBlox 1.8.5
By Stephen Trembath
version 1.8.5.0. is up now. The changes are generally relatively minor since the last release – just a few methods which we’ve needed for iTOK.
- Change Touch() method builder in BizBloxBuilder to use Enum column names rather than indexes
- Add new constructor to DataObject(Guid id, Boolean load) which allows loading from an ID in one line of code.
- Fix validation unit test: if Food.cs is updated by Builder, do not overwrite validation
- Add option AddOrderAttribute To DataContract Info in BizBlox Builder.
- addWhereLikeConcatenatedColumns method to SqlBuilder as a lightweight alternative to the existing SearchBuilder method
- addTriStateAndWhere method to SqlBuilder to add built-in TriState filtering on a column.
- GetPrimaryKeyIDs() method added to DOCollection, to allow retrieving primary keys without loading objects.
version 1.8.5.0. is up now. The changes are generally relatively minor since the last release – just a few methods which we’ve needed for iTOK.
- Change Touch() method builder in BizBloxBuilder to use Enum column names rather than indexes- Add new constructor to DataObject(Guid id, Boolean load) which allows loading from an ID in one line of code.
- Fix validation unit test: if Food.cs is updated by Builder, do not overwrite validation
- Add option AddOrderAttribute To DataContract Info in BizBlox Builder.
- addWhereLikeConcatenatedColumns method to SqlBuilder as a lightweight alternative to the existing SearchBuilder method
- addTriStateAndWhere method to SqlBuilder to add built-in TriState filtering on a column.
- GetPrimaryKeyIDs() method added to DOCollection, to allow retrieving primary keys without loading objects.
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January 6, 2010 • 9:25 am 0
We’re Hiring: .Net Web Developer
Spiral Digital is the most prolific Facebook applications developer in Asia Pacific.
We are looking for a talented Developer to work with a fantastic growing team and develop their skills in social media using .Net techologies whilst working with global brands and agencies in Australia and across Asia.
The Developer’s primary responsibility is to work with the Designer and Producer with direction and mentorship from the Director of Technology writing code solutions against specifications supplied supplied by the Producer.
On top of regular development work, you get time to experiment and research as well as contribute to open source projects.
You will be working with a team of other excellent developers and you will be provided mentoring opportunities and training as well as learning industry best practices.
We really want people who want to learn as an ongoing process and love to write code – we don’t expect you to have huge amounts of Facebook experience, we would rather you just be yourself, learn as you go and be part of our team.
Working at Spiral Digital you will be in a very casual environment in our lab located in Sydney’s south. Definitely no suits or ties necessary. Its near the beach and we encourage a life/work balance – so you can take time to enjoy it… There is no peak hour traffic ever, its just a short walk to the train station and there is free all day parking too. On average its a 30 minute commute from the city.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please provide a concise resume in .DOC or .PDF format. Ensure your resume has evidence of education history and skills. To be eligible to apply for this position you must have an appropriate Australian or New Zealand work visa.
Applications should be sent to jobs@pixolut.com
Filed under: Jobs, pixolut, Software Development
January 4, 2010 • 3:04 pm 0
We’re hiring: Digital Producer
Spiral Digital is the most prolific Facebook applications developer in Asia Pacific and we’re growing.
We are looking for a talented Producer with strong experience in digital to work with a fantastic team.
Develop your skills in social media whilst working with global brands and agencies in Australia and across Asia.
As Producer you maintain direct, hands-on responsibility for the execution of day-to-day activities on project engagements. You have a passion for getting things done.
Your primary responsibility will be to align strategy/creative with executional capabilities. You will assist the development of project scope and definition materials including statements of work, functional specifications, wire frames, timelines, estimates and budgets.
You will coordinate with project partners and with other disciplines to develop, support and maintain process and a efficient project workflow. You will participate in creative and strategic concepting, bringing their expertise to bare in envisioning exceptional interactive solutions.
Working at Spiral Digital you will be required to work in a couple of locations to manage all of the projects and resources. There is the hip Surry Hills warehouse and our lab located in Sydney’s south. We encourage a life/work balance – so you can take time to enjoy it…
Core Responsibilities:
Assist in development of project scope and definition materials
Maintain, track and report on the status of individual projects and resource utilisation
Coordinate with team, client and other stakeholders on project development issues
Participate in team status meetings and scheduling updates
Assist in management of the financial and timing forecasts for the projects
Oversee multiple projects
Manage project timelines insuring quality delivery
Participate in creative and strategic concepting for projects
Responsible for managing regulatory submission process of all agency developed materials as needed
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please provide a concise resume in .DOC or .PDF format. Ensure your resume has evidence of education history and skills. To be eligible to apply for this position you must have an appropriate Australian or New Zealand work visa.
Applications should be sent to jobs@pixolut.com
July 22, 2009 • 3:04 pm 0
We’re Hiring Again!
At Pixolüt Industries we write software. We do it for fortune 500 corporations and seedling start-ups in Australia, Europe and the United States. We primarily develop interactive web based applications for global advertising clients. A lot of our projects are bleeding edge applications on Facebook and other social platforms. Every day is a new adventure!
We need a very bright and motivated developer for a full time role. You get to work on some of our key projects – you get to learn and use cutting edge technologies in your day to day role.
On top of your regular development you get time to experiment and research as well as contribute to open source projects. You will be working with a team of excellent developers and you will be provided mentoring opportunities and training as well as learn industry best practices. We really want people who want to learn as an ongoing process and love to write code – we don’t expect you to have huge amounts of .Net experience, we would rather you just be yourself, learn as you go and be part of our team.
Working at Pixolüt you will be in a very casual environment in our lab located in Sydney’s south. Definitely no suits or ties necessary. Its near the beach and we encourage a life/work balance – so you can take time to enjoy it… There is no peak hour traffic ever, its just a short walk to the train station and there is free all day parking too. On average its a 30 minute commute from the city.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please provide a concise resume in .DOC or .PDF format. Ensure your resume has evidence of education history and skills. To be eligible to apply for this position you must have an appropriate Australian or New Zealand work visa.
Applications should be sent to jobs@pixolut.com
April 6, 2009 • 11:59 am 0
BizBlox 1.7: New fundamentals
The BizBlox OR/M API has been in development for 5 years and is actively used in many commercial enterprise and light weight applications around the globe. The key premise of BizBlox has always been to keep databases simple. NO MAPPING, no complexity, no scripts. Its funny that layers on top of nHibernate like Fluent and even the Microsoft Linq for SQL have been trying to get this right over the last year or so – but BizBlox did it this way from the beginning. Naming parity; where classes names should match table names; property names should match column names makes perfect sense for a lot of applications and the complexities which a lot of object relational mappers introduce makes life hard for developers; both initially and especially further down the track in maintenance. Also, removing the need for special mapping scripts or weird GUI mapping tools. Just export your SQL from the enterprise manager/management studio and you’re done. Developers can just concentrate on developing business logic.
Pixoüt have just released BizBlox 1.7 on Google Code. The new version delivers greatly increased performance and flexibility, with major improvements to the DataObject caching algorithm, the addition of column attributes to the DataObject class, and the ability to handle a greater range of data types.
BizBlox 1.7 now caches information about the structure of a DataObject, including properties and column information. This information was previously loaded using reflection on every Load() and Save() of a DataObject, but it is now cached in a DOInfo object the first time an instance of that DataObject is created. While there is a minor performance penalty on the very first load of an instance of the type in the App Domain, subsequent performance will be improved as there is no locking or reflection on any object.
BizBlox 1.7 also introduces column attributes in DataObjects, including PrimaryKey(), Persists() and Identity() attributes. The PrimaryKey() attribute provides flexibility in selecting the UID column for the DataObject. The Persists() attribute allows the addition of custom properties to a class that are not saved to the database. The Identity() attribute allows the use of a SQL Server Identity (auto-incrementing) column, by excluding that column from an insert/update.
You can find out more about BizBlox by going to the BizBlox home page. BizBlox is an open source database mapping framework developed by Pixolüt Industries.
Filed under: BizBlox, Open Source, pixolut
March 25, 2009 • 9:28 pm 0
Pixolut: HUGE REBRANDING
Pixolüt Industries is proud to present their new website with a great new visual style and branding – building on the theme of the second generation Pixolüt logo launched in 2003 with a fresh new photographic style.We have created the new site to better convey the areas of the business and the values and essence of our brand.
Visit the new site today and please let me know what you think.
You can still get the ‘flat 2009′ style logo at our store for the next month or so until we launch the new branding cloting and accessories.
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December 29, 2008 • 12:48 pm Comments Off
Mobux transforms to Spiral Global
From the birthplace of mobux, comes Spiral a portfolio of brilliant business units, pioneering branded solutions in the digital space.
The details…
Since its inception in 2005, mobux has opened its doors to many talented people, been embraced by an enviable portfolio of exceptional Australian brands and delivered tremendous, bleeding-edge digital campaigns.
This success, evolution and dynamic growth has resulted in a necessary change in our structure and scale.
It is, with great pleasure that we announce the creation of a new, uniquely-divisionalised business called Spiral.
Spiral Media – the only media business enabling brands to connect in the most relevant ways with the users of Facebook, MySpace, smsfun.com.au and mobux.com.au.
Spiral Digital – the only digital business built upon the solutions we have created for our own digital assets. From digital acquisition and retention programs through to basic, tactical promotional micro-sites Spiral can we create, design, develop and deliver.
Spiral Lab – our R&D and innovations business, which includes our consumer brand mobux.com.au and our own portfolio of social applications and other digital assets.
From henceforth, we shall be known as Spiral! We hope that this change will be of great benefit to you, as we continue our journey into the Digital Space…
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October 30, 2008 • 10:23 pm 0
BizBlox 1.6.2 Released
Stephen has just updated the release of BizBlox on SourceForge
The major change in this release is that the BizBlox Builder will only update files which have changed code. For example, if we just add a column to a single table, we used to run the BizBlox Builder code generator and the code for every entity would be updated. This meant that we used to be updating source control with hundreds of files which had not actually changed.
Stephen has updated the code generation system to now only touch files which have changed and as such, source control updates are cleaner and simpler – especially with large enterprise projects where multiple developers are working on ‘DataObject’ entities or collections at the same time.
Find out more about BizBlox here!
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October 14, 2008 • 9:01 am 0
SaaS Mentor can help…
Last week I started SaaS Mentor consulting – a business designed to help other business owners succeed.
How?
I have been fortunate enough to work with the owners of various sized businesses over the past decade – I found that nearly all of these businesses faced similar problems; problems around effective sales process, marketing, time keeping and project management. The other major issue for them was the cost of IT and the people required to maintain it all. This cost generally hit those businesses at the worst possible time and it was not usually a small cost either…
The thing I noticed was that over the past year or so there has been an influx of really powerful business tools available on the internet which are provided as subscription services. This Software As A Service model is specifically suited to small-to-medium sized businesses since it reduces the need for in house servers and IT staff costs to maintain them. No big investments and great support.
The idea for SaaS Mentor came about when I started working on a simple approach to consulting for small-to-medium sized business which used several Software As A Service packages as the tools to provide a unique solution for a business problem. This consulting gave big results quickly and made the process of transformation easy.
So, If you know a business owner who may need some help, I would ask that you forward the link to this page on to them and let them know what we’re doing. If you feel like your business could benefit from this kind of strategy or that something in your business is not quite right, I would love to have a chat with you and see if what we’re doing could work for your business. Just email me: joe@saasmentor.com.au
Filed under: agile development, Industry Opinion, pixolut
