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.

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

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 is designed for a specific purpose, user or organisation. Read about our Abletech SaaS (Software as a Service) product AddressFinder.

Loyalty NZ chose Abletech as a key partner to transform their business and build their software capability.

How secure are your apps? Spoiler — not very.

We needed a time tracker but we didn’t want to build one. Why reinvent the wheel? We found MinuteDock and we’ve been using it since 2010.

During covid lockdown we maintained business as usual, working from home. Life went on but we missed our team tradition of gift giving.

Photo by Yancy Min on Unsplash

After finishing a Bachelor of Science majoring in Computer Science, and several months of job searching, I applied for an internship at Abletech.

I felt the need to grow. I was dissatisfied with the opportunities offered by my established career so I considered my options.

Our Friday tech talks and social gatherings are bringing our team together more than ever. With the Abletech team working from home our virtual meetings are alive and well.

The latest New Zealand Listener highlights recent research into heart disease.

At Abletech we have embarked on the process of seeking advice and following recommendations. Read about some of our efforts below.

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.

In the UK, there are two Ruby conferences held each year — Bath Ruby and Brighton Ruby. North West Ruby user meetup group enthusiasts encouraged members to attend Brighton Ruby since it was the only Ruby conference being held this year.

Over the years we’ve had good success with interns. It’s great to bring someone on board and get to know them for three months. It’s important for us to observe how our interns fit in with our team values and culture. From time to time we’ve offered our interns permanent positions.

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.

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.