we develop smart software

h1labs is a tiny studio with international reach. We develop smart and interactive apps from concept to deployment under agile formulas using stable edge technologies.

What can we do for you?

  • Research, consulting & development

    We offer outsourced web and iPhone application development from design to implementation, plus optional maintenance. We can also rescue your existant application, helping to recode it.

  • Eclosion

    Are you in a hurry? We develop a 1.0 version of your project in one month. With this accelerated development program you can test your business idea quickly.

  • Code & interface audit

    We review and report about bottlenecks, optimization, improvements for scalability and code refactoring for existant applications, optionally implementing the solutions to your problem.

  • Mentoring

    Web development, interaction design, usability, Ruby on Rails, behavior-driven development and agile management are our daily basis. We can train your team to develop these abilities or agilize your processes.

Latest articles, news, quotes & links

17 September 2009
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Kakoe: la tele es tuya

Today we have opened the curtains to Kakoe, the latest project where we've been working the past months. It has been amazing to collaborate hand in hand with great people like Jesús Encinar and Juan Leal, while additional ideas and bug reports came from Daniel Calamonte. Our bet: To provide an easy to use platform for users that want to join and give omments about what they're watching at TV. Do you think we've reached the goal?

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9 January 2009
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rack-facebook, a new Rack middleware to parse facebook parameters

During our recent work on the current project we're building now using the sinatra web framework, we needed a simple and effective way to treat Facebook requests. We created a new Ruby gem for this purpose, rack-facebook, and this article describes its features and how to use it.

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21 November 2008
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Living on the edge: Issues running Rails 2.2 RC1 on Ruby 1.9

The past friday 24th october Rails 2.2 RC1 was published, and between all the new features one of them is the compatibility with Ruby 1.9. But unfortunately, if you try to create a new Rails application and launch the server (webrick, mongrel, thin...) with Ruby 1.9, you might find a couple of tiny problems. Learn how to fix them.

UPDATED: This isn't required anymore if you're using Rails Edge, because my humble patch as been commited to the core.

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Open Source Projects

  • mongo_odm Flexible persistence module for any Ruby class to MongoDB.
  • rack-facebook Rack middleware that checks the signature of Facebook params, and converts them to Ruby objects when appropiate. Also, it converts the request method from the Facebook POST to the original HTTP method used by the client.
  • geoplanet A Ruby wrapper for the Yahoo! GeoPlanet APIs. It’s inspired on Mattt Thompson’s yahoo-geoplanet gem, but this version supports better usage of matrix and query parameters, uses JSON for API communication to minimize bandwidth usage, supports both short & long versions of a place, and supports multiple languages.
  • acts_as_inquirable A helper to wrap an ActiveRecord attribute with ActiveSupport::StringInquirer.
  • dm-observers Plugin that provides observes for DataMapper resource classes.