Ackama Group, a technology company based in Wellington, Auckland and Melbourne, have just bought AI and chatbot company Prefer.

Prefer has been around in Wellington for several years, providing services to well known clients such as the Royal...

Sitting in traffic one rainy Sunday, listening to (embarrassingly accurate) 90’s music recommendations on Spotify, I mulled over the increasing presence and influence of Artificial Intelligence in my daily life. On my Sunday drive to Spotlight I...

The Virtual Climate Summit, which took place over the 22nd and 23rd November, was the world’s first virtual political summit. The Summit was hosted by President Hilda Heine of the Marshall Islands, in her capacity as Chair of the Climate...

This month, Rabid Technologies relaunched as Ackama.

As well as all of the name changes - from a new website right down to the sign on the front door - we decided it would be a good idea to mark the occasion with a party. After all, it was also...

Rabid Technologies is rebranding with a new name, look and website. Ackama, a software development company, will offer the same digital strategy, design and development services as before, as well as expanding its offering to include a new...

<div>s as far as the eye can see...
If you’ve ever looked an application’s HTML output, you’re likely quite familiar with this:

Endless tags with cryptic attributes. Looking in, how is it possible to make sense of that image without me telling you what application this is? Imagine working in an application that looks like this. Some of you reading this may already be in that exact environment.

Bucking the trend of Australian companies buying into New Zealand, New Zealand web and app company Rabid Technologies has acquired Squareweave, a strategic design and web development agency based in Melbourne. The new trans-Tasman company will...

I learned, if you make a meetup group, they will sign up and show up…as 28 women came to our first Wāhine in Tech meeting.

So how did we start this?

In March 2018, I joined the team at Rabid Tech and when asked to contribute a blog, I wondered what I could share with readers that might help them better understand life as a junior developer. There is plenty already written – guides, forums,...

Keeping your Rails applications up to date with the latest version of Rails and its supporting gems is best done in small increments, and frequently.

In the real world, you might be asked to upgrade a Rails app by two major versions. There are...