As the dust settles on the CrowdStrike event, it highlights the juxtaposition of combating security issues with both third party Agents / automated software update systems and trying to keep our servers patched up and secure. What can we do to prevent this type of attack?

Dive into our exploration of regular expressions, where we unveil practical insights on enhancing readability and maintainability through the use of multi-line options and named captures. This post draws on our firsthand experience to present tangible examples and a step-by-step guide on applying these techniques effectively. Perfect for those looking to streamline their coding practices.

AEDLocations empowers its users to be potential life savers. The App works using a location database with over 17,000 defibrillator locations.

OpenAI's completion API opens up endless possibilities to integrate powerful analysis of text based data and convert it to a structure response suitable for processing by your application. We have recently had a number of examples where we can leverage this technology. One task was to determine the sentiment of someones comment before displaying that comment on a public website.

The UX service at Abletech is growing! After a year of UX services at Abletech, we'd like to share our 5 top learnings.

New to CloudWatch Logs Insights, or want a quick run through of what it can do? I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Insights, and you might be too.

Most of us are onboard with the fact that humans have been overconsuming the earth's resources at an unsustainable rate. Action from a global, government, and local government level is still unsatisfactory. Everyone needs to start doing their bit, and hopefully each little bit adds up and makes a big difference.

User Experience, or UX, is a term that gets used (and a little abused) quite a bit. But what does it actually mean?

In April 2022 we checked in with the team to find out how connected they feel to the Abletech values and ask if they were empowered to live them each day at Abletech. This blog is a summary of the results from the April survey.

On the early mornings of 26th and 27th April (4am NZ time) members of the developer teams from Abletech and Addressfinder attended the [Devs For Ukraine](https://www.devsforukraine.io/) Conference, a free, online engineering conference with the goal to raise funds and provide support to Ukraine.

In 2021, our CEO Michelle Harvey called for more diversity in tech workplaces. Learn about how our partnership with TupuToa brought this to life.

The following post will explain how you can build a simple party management and team service complete with relationship graph, access control and permissions in less than a day. We’ll be using a tool called Hasura with data stored in a Postgres database.

Navigating the choices for building front ends can be daunting. Like everything technology based, you are faced with a bunch of technology choices and tradeoffs. This article attempts to distill your app development options and outline the various pros and cons.

Content Management Systems seem to be a hot topic at the moment. We have been building varying solutions for several clients with integrated CMS systems, including our very own websites abletech.nz and addressfinder.nz. Our personal experience sees us on a three to five year lifecycle with CMS’s. Abletech went from WordPress, to BlogSpot, to Tumblr, to Medium, and now to Strapi over the course of 16 years! This article outlines some of our learnings, why we keep changing, and what we are really after from our CMS.

JAMstack with Next.js, Netlify and Prismic CMS

JAMstack with Next.js, Netlify and Prismic CMS

JAMstack with Next.js, Netlify and Prismic CMS

A client recently requested to add the functionality to be able to accept credit card payments within a Rails application that we were building. Specifically, they wanted users to be able to purchase vouchers using credit card payments and pass on any processing fees. Once the payment was complete, the transaction had to be recorded within the app and an email needed to be sent out to both the purchaser and the giftee. Stripe came into the picture then.

To understand how agile came to be popular in our industry it helps to understand what came before. When software came out of University Computer Laboratories and people with Computer Science degrees were working in companies using computers to build business applications, the industry looked to existing industries for inspiration of how to structure their work. The industry they chose was engineering. A number of principals were adopted from Engineering and applied to software projects.

We all love the satisfaction that comes with solving a problem – especially when it’s a gnarly one. So when we heard about Creative HQ’s Climate Response Accelerator, we couldn’t resist getting involved. Together, we’re helping some of the smartest people in New Zealand to solve some of the biggest climate-related challenges facing our planet.

When presented with some damning statistics on the presence of Māori and Pacific peoples in corporate-sector leadership positions, Abletech was delighted to join a campaign for change.

When agencies in New Zealand’s public sector need the services that Abletech provides, they simply visit Pae Hokohoko | Marketplace to find us.

At Resolve, we work with businesses and organisations to create innovative and practical management solutions to exceptional and high performing teams and streamlined systems. Our business, growth and legal experience will add value, increase effectiveness, improve profit, increase team engagement and customer/client experiences for any organisation. With a sub-specialist interest in property and its management, Resolve assists its clients whether not for profits or private businesses to ensure its property portfolio is managed exceptionally well to deliver its purpose.

Our team spent the day with international award winning trainer Mike Catton. We upskilled in the latest science behind maximising productivity and managing time efficiently.