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A weekend incident ‑ April 2017

Posted in April 2017 on the aTech Media blog

It is with the utmost regret that I write to say that, over the weekend, we were the victim of a successful attempt by a third party to access our...

Dealing with out of hours calls

Posted in March 2017 on the Dial 9 blog

When your customers call you outside of your standard working hours you still want them to be able to hear some useful information, even if it's just a brief audio...

Keep on track with Timers

Posted in March 2017 on the Sirportly blog

Sirportly has a powerful timer system that you can use for a wide variety of applications in your helpdesk. Today we're going to look at setting up a simple timer...

IconJar ‑ I love icons again

Posted in March 2017 on the aTech Media blog

Over the last 15 years I have bought many thousands of icons through a number of channels - directly from the designer, backing projects on Kickstarter or using subscription services...

Setting up an effective call queue

Posted in March 2017 on the Dial 9 blog

If you're receiving a high volume of calls, a call queue is a great way to inform customers you'll be dealing with their enquiry shortly, with the opportunity to provide...

Seamless socket server restarts in Ruby

Posted in March 2017 on the aTech Media blog

We utilise a variety of custom socket servers to support our applications. Most of our apps have at least one. We write RPC servers to interact with repository storage in...

Resizing your uploaded images

Posted in March 2017 on the aTech Media blog

A couple of days ago I wrote about uploading attachments and in this tutorial I'm going to look at doing some processing on those attachments once they have been uploaded....