Web Development – Adapt or Die
The blog title sounds extreme, but there is truth to these words in our industry. I have been developing software since high school, and building software and web applications for about thirty years....
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Intern Creates Smart Phone App
Patrick presents his iPhone and Android apps for the New Roots Charter School to the GORGES staff. We recently hosted a student intern at the GORGES offices. Patrick Putnam is a student at the New...
View ArticleAdding a Fax Machine to Asterisk
Recently we needed to formally integrate a fax machine into our Trixbox / Asterisk office phone system. In the past we just had a simple phone splitter and hoped the line wasn’t in use. We have grown...
View ArticleGORGES Greenery
There are good reasons to work toward reduced impacts. We know most of the environment-saving actions we read about will also save us money. Clients express appreciation when suppliers do their bit...
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Lego Club at GORGES
Team Mini-Figures: Willem Magre, Samuel Bazarov, Gaelen Walsh, Quinton Clark, Trevor Clark, Geoffrey Clark The GORGES offices have been host to a Lego Club this school year. About twice a month, a...
View ArticleStaging servers
At GORGES we prefer to set up a staging server or website for our bigger projects. I would even call it a requirement since it can be used by the customer and our quality assurance staff to review...
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Cornell 3 Day Startup
A few weeks ago GORGES received an inquiry from the organizer Sohan Jain asking if we would be mentors for the Cornell University 3 Day Startup. This event was held this past weekend November 4-6,...
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Fitness Frolics
Jon, Vicki, and Matt at the Ithaca 5&10 Race One peril of software development is that there is too much sitting going on. The mind and spirit get exercise, but not the bod. We’ve experimented...
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Brad Treat at the PopShop
I visited the PopShop in CollegeTown last night for an event. The PopShop opened last month and is trying to become the center for student-led entrepreneurial ideas. The popular Ezra Meetups and...
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Belle Sherman Robotics Club
This academic year I agreed to teach a robotics class at a local elementary school. This was part of an after-school enrichment series sponsored by the local PTA, and I was able to set the curriculum...
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Pebble Stopwatch App
Big Number Stopwatch app for Pebble, available at http://allpebble.com I’ve been monitoring the success of the Pebble watch on Kickstarter.com, and last week I got mine. The Pebble is a smartwatch...
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Tide and Weather Pebble Watch App
Displays time, temperature, weather icon, and high and low tides. In my last post I discussed developing my first app for the Pebble Watch. My family and I were driving to Maine for summer vacation...
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