Uptick Engineering
Welcome to the blog
We're the Uptick dev team.
We love open source, and building high quality components that power the Uptick building maintenance ecosystem.
Some things we've worked on recently:
Prince in the cloud - splat!
Stories and lessons learned from reinventing the wheel and creating serverless applications.
Migrating A Customer And Their Data
How we migrated our largest customer’s data (at the time of writing this post) to Uptick.
Improving Online Dating
Introducing React-Day-Input, a new date input.
Spreadsheets Versus Models - A Compromise
Excel-like functionality in the browser.
Introducing React Interactive Tutorials
A new javascript package for in-app tutorials.
Extension Store
The large number of modules in aBAS calls for a solution to easily manage them. Enter Extension Store.
Being Bleeding Edge - Upgrading to Django 1.10
Proactively updating project dependencies.
Python SAML and Heroku
Technical difficulties installing Python SAML on Heroku leads to buildpack modifications.
Javascript and React showcase
React Object List
A modern, data list visualisation component, with all the standard filtering/pagination perks.
View the demoSee us on NPM
Python and Django showcase
Django Model Import
Lightweight CSV importer leveraging Django model forms; built for speed.
View on PyPIDjango User-defined Fields
Utility for enabling users to add extra fields to models, leveraging JSONField.
View on PyPISee our stuff on PyPI