/ Recent content on Nitric Software Laboratory Hugo -- gohugo.io en Fri, 29 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /products/lawpracticeza/ Fri, 29 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /products/lawpracticeza/ LawPracticeZA - or LP for short - is our flagship product. LP is a full practice application for South African lawyers and advocates and helps do all the boring accounting stuff, according to the Legal Practice Act’s rules, as well as according to general accounting practices. It’s also packed with a whole lot of productivity tools to help lawyers, who - bless them - aren’t always the most technically inclined. /pro_amico/coloursofus/ Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /pro_amico/coloursofus/ Colours of Us is a resource to help parents find multicultural books and toys for their children - resources that reflect the diversity of our world in an empowering and non-stereotypical way. Visit ColoursofUs.com /products/masterpenny/ Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 /products/masterpenny/ Master Penny is an extended enterprise resource management system which handles all the transactions and relationships that happen in a small-to-medium business. Simply, when you’re doing something in the business, you’re doing most or all of it on Master Penny. With many years of experience, we wrote Master Penny ourselves in order to keep track of all aspects of our business, and as such, we see Master Penny as in a constant state of change and improvement as we get better at understanding the complex relationships within our business. /projects/spoton/ Wed, 30 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 /projects/spoton/ SpotOn is a legal compliance project Nicholas has been working on since around 2014 with Cormac Cullinan and his law firm Cullinan & Associates. Perhaps you’ve heard of a thing called a Legal Register? Many companies are obliged to have a legal register once they are a certain size, or when they engage in a business activity which has some kind of environmental, health or safety impact. Usually a business discovers they need a legal register, they get a lawyer to spend weeks compiling it and then it gets printed out and never looked at again, except briefly by an auditor once a year. /projects/papervideo/ Sat, 26 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 /projects/papervideo/ Paper Video delivers high-quality video lesson content for high school learners in South Africa. We built Paper Video’s video content delivery system, API, online store, sponsor reporting and back-office tools together with iOS and Android apps for high-school learners. Here are some of the interesting aspects of the Paper Video project from a dev perspective: QR code generation ‘Jingling’ videos - prepending the Paper Video branding jingle cheaply (ie without re-rendering) to each video using MP4Box Production workflow tools from typesetting to video production Creating Content Access Portals - aka WiFi Boxes - for delivering Paper Video content to rural schools with little or no internet access. /products/filegooi/ Sat, 01 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000 /products/filegooi/ FileGooi is a point to point file transfer service. Don’t email moerse big files, gooi them! FileGooi has been running for over 10 years and still very popular (despite it being in sore need of an face-lift!). It’s a no-frills large-sending service like the familiar YouSendIts or WeTransfers but without annoying advertising, countdowns or speed throttles. The free version allows you to send files up to 1GB. It’s a fremium model where you can get larger file size and custom branding if you join as a premium member. /projects/dramafactory/ Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000 /projects/dramafactory/ The Drama Factory is the brainchild of Sue Diepeveen who has brought a much needed independent theatre venue to Somerset West / Strand. The Drama Factory manages to put on an impressive programme of independent original South African drama, physical theatre, cabaret and even a few big-name stand-up comedy acts. There’s a peppering of crowd-pleasing revues - Sue brilliantly manages the delicate balance between edgy new work from recent graduates and the bums-on-seats brigade. /projects/uj/ Fri, 01 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000 /projects/uj/ UJ use our Master Penny software for running events and ticketing at their theatres and art gallery. University of Johannesburg (UJ) have two large theatre venues: The Arts Centre theatre (428 seater) and Con Cowan (160 seater) in which they run both University events as well as outside professional productions. Next to the beautiful Arts Centre is an art gallery with exhibitions, openings and events running throughout the year. We deployed Master Pennny with integration to their existing Wordpress website to provide online booking and RSVPing for free events. /projects/ecapture/ Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000 /projects/ecapture/ eCapture started life as a bridge between traditional paper-based consumer research surveys and the capabilities offered by modern mobile devices. With our first iteration of this project we took the paper-based surveys that the operators were used to, rendered as an image and then overlaid form inputs over it. So on a tablet it felt very similar to doing the survey on paper - just a bit quicker and with the obvious benefit of elmininating the manual capture step from paper. /projects/watermanlive/ Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000 /projects/watermanlive/ We developed Watermanlive for our client Waterman Marine Consultancy based between the Netherlands and the French Riviera. Their business is in management and surveying services for motor and sailing yachts. Watermanlive (or WML for short) is a tool for managing new builds, major refits, vessel maintenance and compliance to international maritime regulations and standards. WML is for captains, insurance brokers, underwriters, surveyors, engineers, operators and owners to manage risk, build, maintenance and compliance issues on board their vessels. /products/activedns/ Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000 /products/activedns/ ActiveDNS is our dynamic DNS service for use locally in SA. It keeps a domain name up-to-date with a the changing IP addresses that you ISP gives you. This is so that you can access machines (at home or at work) that are connected to the internet by ADSL. Not recommended if you require 99% uptime but great for backup systems or for fault-tolerant networks exploiting cheap local bandwidth. ActiveDNS supports the DynDNS2 protocol which means that you can use any DynDNS client to keep your IP up-to-date. /projects/yaccount/ Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000 /projects/yaccount/ Yaccount is an online accounting system for yachts. Crew use Yaccount on board to manage cash and expenses as they happen. Because Yaccount is online, the accounts office of the management office back home have a clear picture of the yacht’s financial position at any time and can efficiently process items without delay. Yaccount handles multiple currencies coherently and can also handle separate charter and general expenses. There are also functions for to help with regular drills and maintenance checks. /pro_amico/conspeaking/ Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000 /pro_amico/conspeaking/ Professor Pierre de Vos' blog comments critically on current events through a constitutional lens. He makes his analysis accessible to lay-people, with humour, and without dumbing-down complex matters. Constitutionally Speaking is a resource that journalists, activists and intellectuals whether of the academy or of the arm-chair variety turn to to sharpen their understanding of what’s happening and what the ramifications and possibilities are in terms of the constitution. We provide hosting and technical support services for constitutionallyspeaking. /projects/securebooking/ Thu, 01 Mar 2001 00:00:00 +0000 /projects/securebooking/ SecureBooking offers travel services including hotels, tours, and safaris to luxury destinations around Southern Africa. Somewhere around 2001 we implemented their booking system. Booking systems can get rather complicated: The booking itself must navigate through the a complex workflow. Bookings can land up in various states while also integrating with various hotel software systems, payment gateways, as well as keeping the client and affiliates up-to-date. As the business grows and as technologies adapt over time, we are still pleased how well the original structure was flexible enough to handle all the new and on-going requirements. /projects/titbits/ Wed, 26 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000 /projects/titbits/ We started Titbits as an experiment in the year 2000 initially delivering weather information over SMS to customers. Over the years it has become both a premium SMS data service as well as a subscription data service over SMS for all kinds of data services (mostly still weather and wind information). See Wind Report for more information. /about/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /about/ Nitric Software Laboratory We are a small creative software company based in Cape Town. We love Python, Ubuntu GNU/Linux and all things open source. We have been in operation since 2000 and have loads of experience creating all sorts of internet-based business systems for all kinds of enterprises. We offer specialised software development and deployment for business. Our usual toolkit choices include: Python (of course!) Web stack made with CherryPy or Sanic with Mako for templating Django with Wagtail for content management systems Relational databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL with Django or SQLalchemy And/Or NoSQL databases like MongoDB and RethinkDB Elastic Search jQuery and Bootstrap We’ve also made some desktop & mobile apps using Cordova, ElectronJS and Kivy. /contact/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /contact/ Email: Please email us on info@nitric.co.za Tel: +27 21 300 1073 (Voicemail) /zoom/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /zoom/ → Click Here to meet on Zoom meeting ID: 750529 0000 ← Start a Zoom Meeting with Nicholas --. /keys/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /keys/ Edward’s ssh public key: ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAqVp8cm3M8OqC8K1xwDDfDf4oAdxfm9ve0ppz0DmSaa5RXtnl2Gp0tQ63CGD5+TE9noT6lFjlW3in3bfyWhjAnFGuPff8yNETRfdgW55YKMpQFEvhFC4hhW/Kn8Yl50YG0dZvQwGY+/NjsEb1OBV+wx55bnSgETIH6J8XTD7f3HCcBUg3Qy48p5mUeOLG5awJHBt7VezvJDso3Mp20PapZy1xYwZ52/pFDfbKbcHF70VQ1CslsELpJNzezEnaWUjhqADsbstS204YrEADyUimvLoami35UAdD98oXz0OhN2SqPIYwrWMq5xJ10/BzUt5XqenM/QDmNAh3mTs1HFDFAQ== edward@rose Nicholas' ssh public key: ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQC8b3DMRC+SPsVtmdD1GAPrRn1yo6/CRgTzwWiiDwnY0f9sk9tk8cHJ14e/UExekYnUlbHvPu3yhyoqFAyNHD6FU5RE8BK74x4UHY+7dMUnQCLaX9jB9OZH9v1vfXw5nL89lrKudJojOKzV332mA+z7pr+Bd3IzyWGX6eRxydvFehDryQGXQlvbfr686CuRGbQHAoicYlPR2uS0h2Qwcv5UDZjOb4L/sUd+Gu9UwMDsOKIG9HGz4KQyusp96390CK6JQstnYQxJDDdEWTSnM/alGfOqbrE/B05NdNN1IHpn8xr8iBiauad5UeVlF6n2iS0zW+0+nHyun9vr13/jMIP3 nicholas@tincap /thanks/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /thanks/ if (location.search.indexOf('gerald') = 0) { document.write('Your contribution will be greatly appreciated. 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