Sensible Development

An Egg-citing fundraising auction for us: The Big Egg Hunt Charity Auction

Alan — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 09:16:02 +0000

Easter weekend sees the culmination of a rather large online auction project we've been working on for the Elephant Family and Action for Children along with digital agency Home Made Digital. The auction has been put together by Faberge and they have enlisted the help of many well known artists to create the egg sculptures which have been on display around London from February to Easter weekend 2012.

A video of our auction software bulk uploader

Alan — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:08:02 +0000

We’ve been working on a bulk uploader tool for our online and live auction products. This provides a really convenient way to upload lots en-masse from a spreadsheet as well as providing a way to bulk manage images for the lots. We’ve put together a video which demonstrates the following features: Importing and uploading multiple [...]

A Generic wsgi file for deploying Django with virtualenv and mod_wsgi

john — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:04:42 +0000

Virtualenv is one of several tools that all good Python developers should know. It lets you run several Python applications side-by-side, each with their own Python libraries installed. That's a godsend when you have several projects running on the same server, that update at different rates.

A video showing how our live internet auction software works

Alan — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:09:22 +0000

Following on from our announcement that we have put together an demonstration site for our live internet auction webcasting software, we have now put together a video screencast demonstrating how the auction software works

Django Sendfile – an abstraction for large file serving in Django

john — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 12:55:08 +0000

Part of the benefit of using the web framework Django is the plethora of apps and code available for it. The core Django framework is stable, well written and well documented, but just as importantly has an active community. We’ve been doing more Django development at Sensible Development of late and decided it’s time to [...]

We have put together a demo for our new ‘Live Auction’ system

Alan — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:46:46 +0000

If you have been looking for some auction software that provides you with capability of broadcasting auctions live on to the internet, then perhaps look this to find how we can help you?

Now that charity fundraising season is upon us we look at the benefits of running an auction preview solution

Alan — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:25:54 +0000

We look at some of the benefits in running an online auction website as a marketing solution prior to a live fundraising event.

Some useful resources for managing charity auctions previews

Alan — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:22:52 +0000

We've put together some useful documents describing how to add lots to our system, how to work out who is winning the auction and how to give this to your auctioneer.

Integrating your site with our auction platform, using our API

Alan — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:16:06 +0000

We have created an API, which is two-way feed between our auction platform and your website. Find out more about how the software can work with your existing website.

We’ve helped British Airways High Life Magazine launch their Post Card Auction

Alan — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:35:10 +0000

Find out how we have used our auction platform to help British Airways Highlife Magazine raise funds for Comic Relief.