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.
Devs for Ukraine Conference
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.
Building a party and teams service in less than a day using Hasura
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.
What App Should You Develop?
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.
Choosing a Headless CMS
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.
Provider of choice for the New Zealand Government
When agencies in New Zealand’s public sector need the services that Abletech provides, they simply visit Pae Hokohoko | Marketplace to find us.
Custom software development services
Custom software is designed for a specific purpose, user or organisation. Read about our Abletech SaaS (Software as a Service) product AddressFinder.
Business transformation
Loyalty NZ chose Abletech as a key partner to transform their business and build their software capability.
Build your next app on Blockchain inspired technology
How secure are your apps? Spoiler — not very.
Necessity > invention
During covid lockdown we maintained business as usual, working from home. Life went on but we missed our team tradition of gift giving.
Cardiac arrest
The latest New Zealand Listener highlights recent research into heart disease.
Sustainable future
At Abletech we have embarked on the process of seeking advice and following recommendations. Read about some of our efforts below.
Ruby Conf in Wellington
The Ruby community holds conferences all over the globe, using local and international speakers, for Rubyists of all levels. The latest conference was a single day of talks held at Te Papa in Wellington which is two blocks from Abletech’s headquarters.
WebSockets multi-player game
Alex has been working on a game prototype that mimics Jackbox TV games. At our recent Tech Talk he gave us a demo and showed us what he’s built so far.
Automate with Selenium
Cam had a problem with his budgeting software. It doesn’t support banks in New Zealand, and the banks don’t give access to internal APIs.
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.
Performance comparison for Docker for Mac, VM Linux Docker and Linux Docker Native
Reducing developer cycle time between a code change and running a test case is hugely important for an effective working environment. Developers can maintain focus and not get distracted by pausing and waiting for things to finish.
Abletech and CO2 emissions — growing our understanding
One area we omitted from our first attempt is the contribution that comes from Cloud Hosting, the majority of which, for Abletech, is on AWS in Sydney.
16 Months Remote, In Review
Last year, my partner and I moved to Canada, mainly to explore the other side of the world from New Zealand. We wanted to be away one or two years, but we didn’t have funds to do that without working.
App matches Clients with Consultants
Matt purpose-built the appliction for Planit Software Testing for his Honours project towards his Software Engineering degree at Victoria University of Wellington. He recently showcased his work to industry professionals and academics from the School of Engineering and Computer Science.
Devs for Ukraine Conference
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.
Building a party and teams service in less than a day using Hasura
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.
What App Should You Develop?
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.
Choosing a Headless CMS
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.
Provider of choice for the New Zealand Government
When agencies in New Zealand’s public sector need the services that Abletech provides, they simply visit Pae Hokohoko | Marketplace to find us.
Custom software development services
Custom software is designed for a specific purpose, user or organisation. Read about our Abletech SaaS (Software as a Service) product AddressFinder.
Business transformation
Loyalty NZ chose Abletech as a key partner to transform their business and build their software capability.
Build your next app on Blockchain inspired technology
How secure are your apps? Spoiler — not very.
Necessity > invention
During covid lockdown we maintained business as usual, working from home. Life went on but we missed our team tradition of gift giving.
Cardiac arrest
The latest New Zealand Listener highlights recent research into heart disease.
Sustainable future
At Abletech we have embarked on the process of seeking advice and following recommendations. Read about some of our efforts below.
Ruby Conf in Wellington
The Ruby community holds conferences all over the globe, using local and international speakers, for Rubyists of all levels. The latest conference was a single day of talks held at Te Papa in Wellington which is two blocks from Abletech’s headquarters.
WebSockets multi-player game
Alex has been working on a game prototype that mimics Jackbox TV games. At our recent Tech Talk he gave us a demo and showed us what he’s built so far.
Automate with Selenium
Cam had a problem with his budgeting software. It doesn’t support banks in New Zealand, and the banks don’t give access to internal APIs.
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.
Performance comparison for Docker for Mac, VM Linux Docker and Linux Docker Native
Reducing developer cycle time between a code change and running a test case is hugely important for an effective working environment. Developers can maintain focus and not get distracted by pausing and waiting for things to finish.
Abletech and CO2 emissions — growing our understanding
One area we omitted from our first attempt is the contribution that comes from Cloud Hosting, the majority of which, for Abletech, is on AWS in Sydney.
16 Months Remote, In Review
Last year, my partner and I moved to Canada, mainly to explore the other side of the world from New Zealand. We wanted to be away one or two years, but we didn’t have funds to do that without working.
App matches Clients with Consultants
Matt purpose-built the appliction for Planit Software Testing for his Honours project towards his Software Engineering degree at Victoria University of Wellington. He recently showcased his work to industry professionals and academics from the School of Engineering and Computer Science.