April 4, 2013
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Hack Night - April 6th
On Saturday, April 6th, Enable Labs will be hosting a Hack Night in our office at 415 River St, 4th Fl, Troy NY 12180 from 6pm til whenever.
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March 14, 2013
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RVM, OpenSSL and jRuby
rvm is generally a great application and keeps all of your ruby and gem versions in separate bundles. Getting RVM installed with OpenSSL can be a real problem if you use the default setup listed at https://rvm.io/rvm/install/ which gives you many choices.
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February 13, 2013
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Free iOS Development Classes
Enable Labs is proud to announce FREE iOS Development classes starting January 2013.
The training will be combination of heads up instruction and hands on labs. The labs will be done in the Enable Labs team rooms on workstations setup for iOS development.
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February 13, 2013
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Free Intro to iOS Classes in March 2013
Enable Labs is proud to announce FREE iOS Development classes starting March 2013.
The training will be combination of heads up instruction and hands on labs. The labs will be done in the Enable Labs team rooms on workstations setup for iOS development.
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January 25, 2013
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Ruby On Rails Development classes starting February 2013
Enable Labs is proud to announce FREE Ruby On Rails Development classes starting February 2013.
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December 7, 2012
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Bringing Mobile to the Warehouse
Outlining how a custom program written for a mobile device (iOS) changed the workflow of a shipping operation and the factors considered when designing a mobile application.
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November 29, 2012
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Tech Valley Developers Holiday Bash!
It's time to put your Macs to sleep, push the pixles aside and celebrte the Holiday Season with your Tech Valley user group Friends (and Beer)!
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November 20, 2012
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Ruby, Strings and Speed
In Ruby, you can delimit a String using either double quotes (") or single quotes ('). The difference being that Strings delimited by double quotes are interpreted, while Strings with single quotes are not. Is there a significant performance difference using one or the other? Click thru to find out.
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October 11, 2012
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Free Ruby-On-Rails Training!
Enable Labs is proud to announce an Introduction to Ruby and Ruby on Rails training starting October 22nd, 2012. This training session is limited to 10 attendees. The training will cover the basics of the Ruby programming language and the Ruby on Rails web framework.
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October 3, 2012
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Google Nexus 7 Review
The Nexus 7 is my first Android device. I've been a full-time iOS user since the introduction of the iPhone. Part of my motivation to get the Nexus 7 was to expose myself to the android operating system, and particularly jelly bean, Android 4.1. After getting acquainted and downloading all of my commonly used apps, such as Facebook, Twitter, new York Times, Wall Street Journal, a Book Reader, and a few others and I was off and ready to go.
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September 17, 2012
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How the iPad changed the world...
When Apple first announced the iPad, there were those of us who didn’t get it. We didn’t get why, in a world full of laptops and iPhones, we would ever need a tablet. But as the years went by, this group of dissenters, belittling the tablet to either a novelty or a status symbol, has shrank significantly, if not completely disappeared. The general consensus now is that tablets are more convenient, simpler to use, and all around cooler than their keyboard-encumbered counterparts.
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August 27, 2012
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Testing Non-Ruby Applications with Cucumber
Yesterday we got Cucumber working to test an older J2EE application that uses EJB 2.1 for its persistence layer. This application because of the J2EE EJB 2.1 beans has been very hard to near impossible to test in the past. I've been hearing about Cucumber for a while and we decided it was time to take a deeper look.
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August 27, 2012
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Refactoring: Introduce Local Extension in Ruby
I was recently reading Martin Fowler's Refactoring. While I was reading Introduce Local Extension (p. 164) all I could think of was how simple it is to implement in Ruby.
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August 27, 2012
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Ruby Mastery: The Most Important Chapter You Can Read on Ruby
Mastery in Ruby involves moving past regular programming and embracing the dynamic features of the language. The dynamic nature of Ruby goes far beyond dynamic typing. Frequently programmers coming to Ruby from languages like Java, C++/C#, PHP, VB.Net, and other statically and dynamically typed languages think that dynamic typing is the extent of what is dynamic about Ruby[1]. Chapter 11 of The Ruby Way will greatly disabuse them of this notion and put them on the pathway to Ruby mastery.
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August 27, 2012
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Interview with SnagMobile Co-Founder Dan Cody
We recently interviewed Dan Cody, one of the minds behind SnagMobile, a cool new mobile app for ordering food at sports events. Enable Labs developed the prototype for the app, which is now going on to meet success. Here's what Dan had to tell us about what SnagMobile is exactly, and what he has in mind for its future.
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