Making a dent in the tech universe
Making a dent in the tech universe
Sustainability in IT business. What you can do to decarbonise
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.
What does it mean to go serverless?
It’s time to look closely at serverless development. Come on a journey to investigate the serverless development model with Typescript. This article will take you through a potential framework, ORM, relational database provider, how to test, and our conclusions.
How To Build and Deploy Your Personal Blog With Next.js
The source code for this guide is available on Github and you can view the original article on my blog (built with this starter).
Addressfinder Dashboard
Find out what Chris did, how he did it, and what he learnt along the way.
Content Security Policy
The Content Security Policy is a relatively new mechanism to restrict outgoing requests and resources, that a web page refers to.
How to get a Summer Internship with Abletech
We’re often asked how students and graduates can increase their chances of getting a paid summer internship with Abletech. Here are a few options to help you stand out from the crowd:
The guide to integrating Google MyMaps onto your website with React
If you want to put the custom map you’ve created with MyMaps onto a website you have two options:
🚘 SmartInspect with React Native 📱
Our Rapid Projects team developed this mobile app in three months. We used React Native and found it fast and efficient. Watch a demo of SmartInspect. Hear what Naiki Pearl and Kate Norquay found as they developed using React Native.
Accessibility, error handling and service workers
Kate’s favourite talks include Julie Grundy on accessibility, Theresa Ma on improving the way designers and engineers work together, and Diana Mounter from GitHub on the interaction of colour systems.
CSSConf & JSConf Australia 2018
JSConf-goers enjoying the complimentary coffee on the first day of the event (and some cheery Abletechers on the right!)
CSS and JS
Inspiration and support. These events aim to push the boundaries of what JS can achieve. They intend to focus on topics that* define and revolutionise* the coming year of technology and are a launching point for some of the most revolutionary products, services, and technologies on the web. They also encourage the social connections within the community.
Elixir meetup at Abletech
Elixir is rapidly gaining interest and popularity. Kiwi developers connect online to learn and share tips together via Twitter and the AU/NZ Slack group. Wellington Elixir User Group members get together for Hack Nights.
Kick-start your tech career
Here are Abletechers Kate Norquay, Oliver Greenaway and Carl Penwarden at the Wellington ‘meet & greet’ with up-and-coming graduates.
7 ways to get a Summer Internship with Abletech
Abletech (and its sister companies) sometimes looks to hire 1–2 students for summer internship roles. The following seven steps will substantially increase your chances of getting one of these sought after positions.
Web Developer student
Sam grew up in Wellington. She’s currently studying towards a Bachelor of Science at Victoria University. She has two majors: Computer Science and Media Design.
Static Website Generators: Ultimate Caching?
Static files handle large traffic easily. Photo cred: Sergey Pesterev (Unsplash)
Enspiral Dev Academy meetup
A big thank you to Shaun O'Connell from Abletech for giving a Tech Talk recently. Shaun’s been enjoying the latest Enspiral Dev Academy meetups and gave us some feedback on what he found interesting and useful after the first one about using TypeScript.
React On Rails with Devise: Two Ways
Hi, I’m Kate! I’ve been working as a web development intern at Abletech for the last two months. Recently I’ve been investigating using React together with Ruby on Rails. My task was to discover common ‘gotchas’ and figure out what it would take to use React in our next project.
Elixir for JavaScript and Ruby developers
This talk will be an introduction to Elixir in the form of a walk-through of a real-world application (Addressfinder).
What does it mean to go serverless?
It’s time to look closely at serverless development. Come on a journey to investigate the serverless development model with Typescript. This article will take you through a potential framework, ORM, relational database provider, how to test, and our conclusions.
How To Build and Deploy Your Personal Blog With Next.js
The source code for this guide is available on Github and you can view the original article on my blog (built with this starter).
Addressfinder Dashboard
Find out what Chris did, how he did it, and what he learnt along the way.
Content Security Policy
The Content Security Policy is a relatively new mechanism to restrict outgoing requests and resources, that a web page refers to.
How to get a Summer Internship with Abletech
We’re often asked how students and graduates can increase their chances of getting a paid summer internship with Abletech. Here are a few options to help you stand out from the crowd:
The guide to integrating Google MyMaps onto your website with React
If you want to put the custom map you’ve created with MyMaps onto a website you have two options:
🚘 SmartInspect with React Native 📱
Our Rapid Projects team developed this mobile app in three months. We used React Native and found it fast and efficient. Watch a demo of SmartInspect. Hear what Naiki Pearl and Kate Norquay found as they developed using React Native.
Accessibility, error handling and service workers
Kate’s favourite talks include Julie Grundy on accessibility, Theresa Ma on improving the way designers and engineers work together, and Diana Mounter from GitHub on the interaction of colour systems.
CSSConf & JSConf Australia 2018
JSConf-goers enjoying the complimentary coffee on the first day of the event (and some cheery Abletechers on the right!)
CSS and JS
Inspiration and support. These events aim to push the boundaries of what JS can achieve. They intend to focus on topics that* define and revolutionise* the coming year of technology and are a launching point for some of the most revolutionary products, services, and technologies on the web. They also encourage the social connections within the community.
Elixir meetup at Abletech
Elixir is rapidly gaining interest and popularity. Kiwi developers connect online to learn and share tips together via Twitter and the AU/NZ Slack group. Wellington Elixir User Group members get together for Hack Nights.
Kick-start your tech career
Here are Abletechers Kate Norquay, Oliver Greenaway and Carl Penwarden at the Wellington ‘meet & greet’ with up-and-coming graduates.
7 ways to get a Summer Internship with Abletech
Abletech (and its sister companies) sometimes looks to hire 1–2 students for summer internship roles. The following seven steps will substantially increase your chances of getting one of these sought after positions.
Web Developer student
Sam grew up in Wellington. She’s currently studying towards a Bachelor of Science at Victoria University. She has two majors: Computer Science and Media Design.
Static Website Generators: Ultimate Caching?
Static files handle large traffic easily. Photo cred: Sergey Pesterev (Unsplash)
Enspiral Dev Academy meetup
A big thank you to Shaun O'Connell from Abletech for giving a Tech Talk recently. Shaun’s been enjoying the latest Enspiral Dev Academy meetups and gave us some feedback on what he found interesting and useful after the first one about using TypeScript.
React On Rails with Devise: Two Ways
Hi, I’m Kate! I’ve been working as a web development intern at Abletech for the last two months. Recently I’ve been investigating using React together with Ruby on Rails. My task was to discover common ‘gotchas’ and figure out what it would take to use React in our next project.
Elixir for JavaScript and Ruby developers
This talk will be an introduction to Elixir in the form of a walk-through of a real-world application (Addressfinder).