Earlier this year, we continued our sponsorship of RailsConf and this time in Phoenix, Arizona. Once our sponsorship was confirmed, we immediately went to work planning what we wanted to do: swag to bring, cool games to share. Of course, you never want to be short on company t-shirts and stickers! And it’s a good … Continued
What is ÁNIMA? Ánima opened its doors in February 2016 as a new educational center with an innovative proposal for the three last high school years. They offer two orientations: 1. Technological Baccalaureate in Administration and 2. Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Why innovation? Because they believe that much of students’ knowledge is learned not only … Continued
Agile methodologies, nowadays, are the de-facto development framework for software projects in the industry. Moove-it firmly believes in the benefits of using Agile, and over the years has been developing its version based on hundreds of successful and not so successful in house experiences. One of the key elements of Agile is fluid communication among … Continued
As we near the second anniversary of our Austin office, we reflect on the founding of a little software company back in 2006. When we began, we wanted to have a focus on mobile applications. At that time, Apple iPhones and Android smartphones didn’t exist and the mobile industry was dominated by Nokia – chiefly … Continued
In today’s landscape, vague ideas are the starting point for multi-million dollar businesses. However, before being shaped into real products, ideas must cross a tangled jungle full of detours, dead-ends, and dangers of all kind. Only the most experienced guides, aimed with the right maps, tools, and knowledge, can lead the journey to success. To … Continued
The Problem On a recent project running on jRuby 1.7.23, mizuno 0.6.8 and the Rest Service Framework Angus 0.0.13, we were faced with a substantial memory leak. During our initial troubleshooting, we found that restarting mizuno weekly prevented the process from crashing. This meant that while we were debugging, we were also scheduling restarts every … Continued
At Moove-it we work hard to create beautiful, scalable and maintainable Android apps. To achieve that goal, over the years we have tried different architecture approaches (MVP, MVVM, MVC and some custom architectures) until we finally encountered the Clean Architecture. In this post we introduce the Clean Architecture and then explain the approach we took … Continued
Are you concerned about accessibility? Do you want your site to be blazingly fast and accessible, even from some random guy with a 2G connection on the North Pole? Are you afraid about being sued by Facebook? (JK probably not happening tho.) Then you might wanna take a look to Preact, a lightweight alternative to React — and why … Continued
Every time we start a fresh mobile project, we are compelled to choose from many patterns, for us to be able to ultimately architect our solution in a way that it primarily stays maintainable and scalable. However, we may feel stunned because of the number of options and variations. By the time are done with this post, you will hopefully have gained the necessary knowledge for you to … Continued
Once more, Moove-it proudly sponsors two of the most relevant events of the Ruby community: KeepRubyWeird 2016 in Austin, Texas, and RubyConf 2016 in Cincinnati, Ohio.