We currently have a full team here at Abletech but in saying that we're always on the look-out for great developers. If that sounds like you, feel free to get in touch.
Calvin and Joseph have been working on a Web and Android Mobile application for Macaulay Metals which is used with their fleet of trucks. Macaulay's drivers carry an Android phone running our application which gives them a real-time list of...
Elasticsearch is my new favorite full text search engine. This example shows how easy it is to store any json document with geo-spatial data and query on the spatial index using elasticsearch and the tire gem
class Location def...
Cameron Prebble and I set off for a few weeks in the States. The first week had Cameron relaxing attending attending an Edward Tufte course on Data Visualisations in New York, whilst I (drawing the short straw) had to field test an iPhone app...
Setting up an IPv6 tunnel on Ubuntu 10.04 is reasonably easy, if you have the right instructions. I recently spent quite a bit of trial and error getting a new server on the IPv6 Internet using a tunnel provided by a local provider. Now that I've worked out the tricky parts, it should be easy for others to get it going.
If your Ruby on Rails application performs any HTTP requests to an external service, you will know they are a pain to test. The issue with these requests is that they are slow. Not only that, they are unreliable. Any self respecting programmer would do their best to avoid having live HTTP requests in their tests.
I previously have found myself creating some sort of XML file to represent the expected response from the request then stubbing out any real calls to just return this pre-made response. The concept is pretty simple, but is slow to set up, especially if you have a few different scenarios to test!
Each summer, AbleTech (and its sister companies) look to hire 5-6 students for internship roles. These seven steps will substantially increase the chances of getting one of these sought after positions.
AbleTech have moved! We are now located on Level 6 of 186-190 Willis Street where we are co-located with iOpen, Decisive Flow and Sharesight.
Our team had a great afternoon at Adrenalin Forest - lots of fun mixed with a little fear! [gallery]
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We've just submitted our latest iPhone App to the AppStore! This application for Xtreme Networks has push notification and will keep Xtreme's customers proactively updated when their Internet usage thresholds are reached. More details about the...
