WE LIKE WHAT WE DO. 
Fortytwo is a software company based in Athens, Greece, specialized in custom software projects, involving a multitude of environments and platforms. Commited to modern software development methodologies, we strive to offer bleeding-edge, modern, user-oriented software solutions.
Skroutz
The price aggregator
LAUNCHED: January 2004
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Skroutz.gr is a price comparison engine developed from ground up by us.Today Skroutz has over 400.000 Products indexed, from over 130 shops, serving his 20.000+ registered users. Although in a highly stable production environment, the search engine and the frontend where created using bleeding edge open source technologies. While the spider itself is written with the Mono framework, the frontend was probable the first greek Ruby on Rails production site.
URL: Skroutz.gr
Technologies involved
- Ruby on Rails: the pure fun framework
- Mono: *nix answer to .net
- Mysql: fast stable and free!!
- Nginx: from Russia with love
Statistics
- 3000 LOC for the frontend
- 6000 Lines of test code
- 2 servers, 8gb total RAM
- 200k pageviews per day (Jan 2008)
Skroutz MarketAuctioning the easy way
LAUNCHED: November 2006
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Skroutz market was an add-on for our price aggregator Skroutz.gr. Initially integrated with the Skroutz.gr layout, it soon became an independent project and moved on to a seperate domain. The goal is simple: an auctioning site that's not a pain to use and targets mostly everyday people rather than merchants and powersellers.URL: Skroutzmarket.gr
Technologies involved
- Ruby on Rails: the pure fun framework
- Mysql: fast stable and free!!
- Nginx: from Russia with love
Smashing JobsJobs that will smash into your life!
LAUNCHED: February 2008
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
In collaboration with one of the worlds leading designer Blogs Smashing Magazine, we launched what we hope will be the No.1 Jobsite for designers and developers. We have tons of changes and innovations in the pipeline and will be rolling those out during the next months. The beatifull design was handcrafted by our friends at Extendio. Stay tuned...
URL: SmashingJobs
FreshWebJobsA Job board for Web Professionals
LAUNCHED: 2007
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Freshwebjobs is a job board for professional web developers and designers. As a joint effort by Fortytwo.gr and the talented guys over at Extendio it has the declared goal of bringing together high quality professionals pasionated with the web. Head over and look for a gig or even better post a new Job!
URL: FreshWebJobs
BugjaBugtracker with attitude
LAUNCHED: 2007
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Bugja is a issue tracking application with a different design philosophy then all the other available "bugtrackers". Simplicity - Efficiency - Integration. We took our development process and modeled Bugja according to our best practices. Just signup, and try it!URL: www.bugja.com
Tools of the trade
For Development
- Linux. ArchLinux, Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu
- Vim. No really; we use Vim. And we pack it with some nice plugins for Ruby and HTML syntax.
- Subversion was our main SCM for quite some time. But then we fell in love with Git
- Big fat dual monitors. How can you people live without them?
For Deployment
