Simplistix

Making things simpler...

Welcome to Simplistix!

Who are we?

We are a collection of technical specialists and design agencies working in conjunction with principal consultant Chris Withers. This unique relationship allows us to tackle anything from the smallest of one-off projects to the largest of enterprise requirements.

What do we do?

Simplistix specialises in building Content Managment solutions using Zope and Python. The architecture and technical implementation of complex solutions along with troubleshooting deep technical problems are specialities although we are just as comfortable providing end-to-end solutions where required.

We also actively develop and support an array of open source software including applications, Zope products and Python packages.

How do we do it?

If you have a specific problem that needs solving, we will most likely quote a fixed price and, once the fixed price is approved, specify a target delivery date. This generally applies when the customer either has a completed static template that they would like us to make dynamic or they have a specific technical issue they wish to resolve.

If you have a business-level problem, we usually proceed with an initial period of consultancy charged at a fixed day rate followed by one or more deliverables specified at a fixed price and delivery date. At each stage, business functionality will be delivered and we aim to give the customer the freedom to stop or continue after each deliverable as required.

In rare circumstances we can also provide staff on a more traditional contracting basis.

Want a Job?

We're always interested in hearing from people who would like to work for Simplistix. If you're interested, please get in touch!

NB: We do not generally accept candidates from recruitment agencies.

News

Tutorial at Europython Conference

19 June 2009

Chris Withers will be giving a tutorial on "Working with Excel files in Python" at this year's Europython Conference.

xlutils 1.3.2 Released!

18 June 2009

This new release removes the need for setuptools and only requires errorhandler if you actually use it.

Website for Python and Excel launched

17 June 2009

Simplistix has launched a new website to provide accurate and up to date information on how to work with Excel and Excel files from Python.

testfixtures 1.6.0 Released!

09 May 2009

This is the latest release of this collection of mock objects and helpers for writing unit tests and doc tests.

sx.translations 1.2 Released!

16 April 2009

This release records the dates untranslated msgids were first seen and is compatible with zope.i18n 3.7.0 and above.