We hope 2024 wasn't such a bad year for you after all. Here how it went at Pantographe! 👇
What happened in 2024?
For a few months, we were 4 at our office! Baptiste (not me!) was a developper intern at out studio. We trained him on Rails, and he worked with us on internal project, such as Control Center.
He also even made a Pantolist!
We had to reorganize our offices to welcome him in the best possible conditions. You can find some pictures down below.
At the end of the year, we dusted off our website a bit: a few technical changes, the addition of small quality-of-life features, and the separation of the Pantolists from the blog page.
The common space
Baptiste looks happy
The empty space is where the new desk went
Our processes
One of the most important changes in our processes was the reintroduction of the "OSS Friday afternoon", our time to work on internal projects: internal software, open source library, our website, etc.
As mentioned in our previous summary, we are currently working on two projects: Control Center and the Administration gem v2. So we desperately needed time to move these projects forward.
What's new on Control Center? After taking stock of the existing prototype and our needs, we worked together to extract the functionality we would like to see in a complete, usable first version. And in the last few months of 2024, we started coding!
What's new on the Administration gem? We decided to build a completely custom new admin. Therefore, we had to hold several design workshops to draw up the plans for this new gem: to make a thorough survey of existing libraries; then to weigh the pros and cons in order to extract the first outlines and guidelines of our future gem.
What did we work on?
MyDCIM
As the year progressed, we increased the amount of time spent on this project.
One of the biggest update last year was the upgrade of Boostrap: from v3 to v5. While we were updating the library, we did a bit of general UX improvment.
Before and after the upgrade of Boostrap from v3 to v5 (with now a dark mode!)
At the same time, we have started to redesign the show pages: reorganising the content into blocks, adding features to improve the user's daily experience, etc.
As well as all this, and many new features, we have continued to improve and maintain the code base.
Typofonderie.com
In last year summary, we told you that we started to work on the blog part, called Gazette. It was finished and added to production during the year.
The new Gazette list page
An example of an article page
Although the Gazette was the main addition to the website, we also worked on smaller features, such as enabling making PayPal payments.
What about 2025?
2025 is already a busy year for us! 🎉💪
On the client side, we will continue to work hard on MyDCIM a lot of additions, new features, updates, refactos, cleans to come.
On typofonderie.com, the project is a few versions behind on Rails. Also, the work on the final missing part will start: the Store. Plus a few small additions to meet customer needs.
On the Pantographe side, work continues on Control Center and our administration gem will keep going on. For Control Center, we've achieved the first goal today, which was to be able to do our ‘dailies’ on the application. The next one is to replace Notion, which we use as a project management tool (task creation and assignment, Kanban, etc.).
For our administration gem, the 2025 goal is to have the 1st production version ready.
In order to respect our convictions and ideals, we want to work as much as possible with companies in the SSE world, because we believe that this is one of the few viable solutions to save what can still be saved.
As I said, 2025 is going to be a (good) busy year for us. So, it's time to get back to work! See you later 🧡
