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Articles by ADAM FITZGERALD

Transcending Frontiers :: Case Study: Synaptor – Manage health, safety, and environmental risk in real time

This week marks the official launch of a project we have been busy working on for the past few months. Since October we have been putting together mobile and web apps for a startup in Perth called Syn...

Transcending Frontiers :: MailCatcher – a super simple SMTP server that intercepts email for testing

Last year we wrote about MailCatcher, a gem developed by our own Sam Cochran (@sj26).\xa0MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server which catches any message sent to it to display in a web interface. T...

Transcending Frontiers :: Agile Development Sprints – This is how we do it

In any given week our company is typically developing five projects at once, with teams of one to three. We run one-week sprints with a half day planning session on Monday morning, and a review sessio...

Transcending Frontiers :: New additions to our case study section

Our primary focus at The Frontier Group is web and mobile applications. But we do find time to do a regular website every now and again. We've added three websites completed recently to our case stu...

Transcending Frontiers :: Learn Ruby with the Ruby Koans

If you're looking for an engaging and interactive way to learn Ruby, I'd recommend Ruby Koans by EdgeCase. I think that the koans are especially interesting if you're coming from another program...

Transcending Frontiers :: Positions available: Development Manager and Ruby Developer

The Frontier Group is a boutique software development company based in West Perth. We have a strong focus on web software, and utilise Ruby on Rails and JavaScript to build web applications, and Objec...

Transcending Frontiers :: Madison Shop – E-commerce Made Easy for our Customers

Earlier this year we began working on an internal e-commerce product that would appeal to our existing customer base, as well as new customers. While there are a myriad of options already available fo...

Transcending Frontiers :: Guest Series: Peter Cooper – Capybara-WebKit: Bringing WebKit to your integration tests

Today we bring you the first in a series of guest posts on our TFG blog. This post is written by Peter Cooper, editor of Ruby Inside and Ruby Weekly. You're using Capybara, right? It's an acceptan...

Transcending Frontiers :: ECU Open Day Planner 2011

Our latest web application has gone live, the ECU Open Day Planner for Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia. If you're thinking of visiting either the Mt Lawley or Joondalup campuses o...

Transcending Frontiers :: Introducing Has Face for Rails

Have you ever created an application where users are trusted to upload their own avatars? Wouldn't it be great if there was an easy way to ensure the avatar contains a person's face? Has Face is a...