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The largest online protest in the history of Internet is taking place today, more than one hundred sites, including the popular Wikipedia, Google and WordPress confirmed their participation in this digital blackout against the new anti-piracy laws of the USA. Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) will be voted on Jan [...]
What do users really need? That’s the question any software developer should ask themselves. Here at moove-it, we always put ourselves in our clients shoes to understand their needs and give them exactly what they are looking for. In order to do so we’ve created the UX Department. From the moment we started gathering up [...]
Yeah, it’s about timing. There was a problem in one of our projects at moove-it related to slow processing. There is a daemon spawning new threads to process certain new entries to the database. The entries come from a different system, that’s the reason for this program which processes each new entry. Sometimes at certain [...]
Last Saturday a group of brave Moovetians decided to accept the challenge and run the Nike 10K competition. Nike 10K consist in running 10 kms along the coastline through some Montevideo’s neighborhoods enjoying the beautiful landscape. Take a look at the pictures. The whole team Silvana, Martin and Nicolas Ariel before breaking the finish ribbon [...]
On October 10th Lars Bak & Gilad Bracha presented a technology preview on Dart. Lars Bak & Gilad Bracha are Google employees leading the development of Dart. Dart is open source, so anyone can use and change it. It’s still in the early stages but the design goals are very clear. It aims to be [...]
We are sponsoring one of the greatest technology events here in Uruguay. The Second RubyConf taking place within less than two weeks, the 11th and 12th November 2011, where many IT experts from all over the world get together in order to be immersed in this dynamic world and and up to date get with [...]
Our main tradition, heritage and passion: The beat of the “Uruguayan” drums. It doesn’t matter if you listen to the drums once a month, everyday, or once a year. When it comes to local music, there is nothing more Uruguayan than the sound produced by rhythmically striking a drum, and especially when playing Candombe, a unique [...]
For part one, click here… What do they have in common and what makes them different? Even though it’s hard to come up with a comparison table between all four alternatives, mainly because I can’t claim to have personal experience with all of them, the Internet has a lot of information on the subject, so [...]
Hi everyone ! I have this issue / trouble several times. I would love share this tips with the JBoss coomunity … particularity JBoss Application Server (AS) developers. Problem: I have a scenario to access certain key values from a config file. I need Access to this properties file from a Java application (WAR or JAR) deployed in [...]
Writing about these things makes my day. Today: Damian Arrillaga’s ROBOT story. Damian is a very young and clever System Engineering student from the State University of Uruguay; he is also an important member of our team. He is simply brilliant. I have no other words to describe him. His interest in Robotics started in [...]
Today I want to write about Sebastian Borrazas and the programming contest he is taking part in. Sebastian Borrazas is a talented developer, member of an exclusive group of developers which makes Moove-IT a big company – I’m not talking about quantity, I’m talking about greatness -. Last week, he together with his team, [...]
When it comes to data storage and data handling, we developers, are quite used to working with database engines (MySQL, Oracle, SQLite, etc) and database query languages. But there are times, when the amount of information to be handled is so big (we’re talking about millions of rows of information) and the needed response times are so low (we’re talking about a few milliseconds time) that we need solutions designed specifically for searching large amount of information instead of generic data handling ones.
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We have been to the top 10 places to visit in the US. From a business perspective, Silicon Valley is the place to go. We share the same passion as the area of the world’s largest technology corporations and high-tech firms: Great Ruby on Rails design & development work. Outsourcing has never been so much [...]
80% of the end-user response time is spent on the front-end. (YSlow Team) By following these best practices we can have a great impact over the performance of our sites and applications. In these slides we will go through some best practices related to performance, semantics & accessibility and patterns for better maintainability and readability [...]
About a month ago I found Pokki with a friend, Pokki is a framework that uses chromium and enables developers to make light desktop applications using only HTML5, Javascript and CSS3. Right now it’s supported on Windows XP, Vista and 7, but there are plans to support Mac before the end of this year. Pokki also [...]
Last weekend four members of moove-it took part in the rally on rails (www.rallyonrails.com). Pablo Ifran Gonzalo Arreche Juan Pablo Blanco Ivan Etchart Rally on Rails is a competition to make a Web app from scratch in 48 hours ! Obviously this project/game/etc had to be made in rails ! Our team created www.buscandoatanatos.com a game about [...]
When it comes to work, being organized and having good habits always helps. The more we know our working habits, the better we exploit our virtues and manage our weaknesses. Increasing productivity is not about working harder and harder, but about using every available resource to achieve better results—with no extra effort. Many small decisions [...]
The last Wednesday we made a workshop in the ORT University. Pablo Ifran, Gianfranco Zas, Ariel Ludueña and I We share the presentations to everybody All_in_One_Agile_Development (in spanish) Ruby_and_Rails (in spanish)
Moove-IT is now part of the Ruby on Rails Workshops and Conferences around the world. Even when Ruby seems to be the most popular modern programming language in America, there was nowhere in Uruguay you could actually learn it. Moove-IT will give you a heads up on this exciting language and Rails framework on July [...]