Articles by ADAM FITZGERALD

Transcending Frontiers :: Positions available: Ruby Developers

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 and mobile (specificall...

Transcending Frontiers :: FlyRight: Help shape the future of airline travel

By Adam Fitzgerald

Lately we've been working on an app that we are now happy to announce as FlyRight. FlyRight is a mobile app (with accompanying web site) designed to use the power of real-time services to help impro...

Transcending Frontiers :: Featured in BetaKit – Synaptor Launches Apps to Tackle Workplace Safety

By Adam Fitzgerald

Synaptor has been out in the field for a month now, and is starting to get some coverage with real world use. Check out the latest writeup at Betakit

Transcending Frontiers :: Lights out management of a NetApp FAS2020

By Adam Fitzgerald

Our DEVOPS team manage a NetApp FAS2020 filer for a customer, and recently our network monitoring systems began reporting an issue connecting to the device's BMC (Board Management Controller). This ...

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

By Adam Fitzgerald

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

By Adam Fitzgerald

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

By Adam Fitzgerald

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

By Adam Fitzgerald

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

By Adam Fitzgerald

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

By Adam Fitzgerald

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...