Authored by on Friday, Sep 26, 2014
Greane Tree Technology President Annmarie Lanesey was chosen to give an overview of the Agile methodology at the NYS Forum symposium "Succeeding with Agile in a Waterfall Environment." The event took place on September 23, 2014, and was attended by approximately 100 business analysts and project managers. The NYS Forum is an association that allows "state and local IT organizations and corporations … to share knowledge and ideas that foster mutual understandings, facilitate public sector progress, and provide insight into what government can be for all of those it serves.
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Greane Tree Technology welcomes Matthew Marchesni, a senior at Union College, for a week-long internship/apprenticeship learning Node.js, a server-side Javascript platform known for its speed. We met Matt last December at NY Innovates 2013, when he was eagerly learning Ruby on Rails. As a Ruby on Rails shop, we were very impressed with Matt's go get ‘em attitude. We ran into Matt again at the Tech Valley Holiday Developers Bash, where we chatted about the possibility of a Spring Break internship at Greane Tree Technology.
Authored by on Friday, Oct 11, 2013
Matthew Gerrior, Greane Tree’s Lead Software Engineer, will be one of the experts speaking at the Vermont Web Marketing Summit on November 14 in Burlington, VT. This is the fourth year for the summit, which last year attracted over 250 attendees from New England and beyond. Matthew will join speakers from Google, Outspoken Media, DragonSearch, and other leading digital marketing firms. Matthew’s talk, “The Mechanics of Social Media,” will explain the major social media APIs and how to use them to integrate social media with web applications.
Authored by on Friday, Aug 23, 2013
Greane Tree Technology appreciates being part of a network of small businesses in Tech Valley that offer excellent service to customers locally and nationwide. Every so often, we like to profile fellow entrepreneurs with whom we have especially enjoyed working. A few months ago, we described working together with Russo Project Management. Today, we want to focus on GreyCastle Security, an information security consulting firm headquartered in Troy. As GreyCastle says on its website, “Our company was established because a need existed for an information security consulting firm truly focused on managing risks in people, process and technology, not pushing the latest hardware and software.
Authored by on Friday, Aug 16, 2013
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Greane Tree Technology Software Engineers Matthew Gerrior and Chad Calhoun attended the Burlington Ruby Conference, “a boutique conference for extraordinary Rubyists,” on August 3rd and 4th. The conference was held in beautiful Burlington, Vermont, within view of Lake Champlain. The conference featured talks by respected Rubyists from across the United States. One of these speakers was our neighbor David Czarnecki from Agora Games right here in Troy. The conference was a single track event, meaning that everyone was able to attend all of the talks.
Authored by on Wednesday, Aug 7, 2013
Greane Tree Technology CTO Joseph Payette gave our latest “Lunch & Learn” presentation. With the number of tools and frameworks for cross platform mobile application development increasing every year, it can be a challenge to determine the best fit technology for a mobile project. All of these tools and frameworks have their advantages and disadvantages, as they leverage different mechanisms for abstracting differences across mobile devices in an effort to provide a single platform for rapid application development.
Authored by on Wednesday, Jul 3, 2013
The latest installment of Greane Tree's Lunch & Learn series took place last Friday. Chad Calhoun shared some features of the Git version control system that he has recently discovered. Chad reviewed interactive adding, interactive rebase, and workflows for cleaning up commits. Interactive adding is a simple way to stage commits with "hunks", small chunks of code, rather than with the entire file. Interactive rebase is a great feature that allows you to reorder, reword edit, delete, or combine commits.
Authored by on Thursday, May 30, 2013
Greane Tree Technology is taking part in the second annual Social Madness competition, sponsored by The Business Journals. The sponsors will make a $10,000 donation to each of the charities designated by the three national Social Madness competition winners. Greane Tree Technology is once again competing on behalf of the Commission on Economic Opportunity of the Greater Capital Region. The Commission on Economic Opportunity (CEO) works in partnership with individuals, families, and the larger community to empower people to build self-sufficiency in all life areas and to rise out of poverty.
Authored by on Wednesday, May 15, 2013
In recent months, Greane Tree Technology has been working on high-profile, high-traffic web applications for clients. The resulting sites make extensive use of streaming video, social media integration, and responsive design. A Video Hub for a Demanding DemographicLast fall, Complex Media asked Greane Tree Technology to build a video hub for its growing collection of exclusive short video properties. Complex Media is the brainchild of urban fashion designer and hip hop impresario Mark Ecko.
Authored by on Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013
Senior Software Engineer Matt Gerrior spoke to a lively crowd at this morning’s Social Media Breakfast Tech Valley in the lovely Cohoes Music Hall. He crammed a lot of information into a short talk. Download his slides on social media integration and study them at leisure!