Encrypting & signing stuff in Ruby
Securing your communications between parts of your infrastructure has never been more important. For encryption, in most cases, you can rely on normal SSL on HTTP connections (HTTPS) however what...
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How to deal with unhappy customers
I've had experiences with unhappy customers and I'd wager that anyone in the customer's firing line has been there too.
Gulp & Rails
I’ve recently started using Gulp rather than the built-in asset pipeline in Rails. Gulp provides a fair amount of additional flexibility and functionality which I am very much enjoying.
Apple Push Notifications using HTTP
I’ve recently been working on developing an iOS application for Sirportly — a helpdesk product which we run & develop at aTech. As part of this application, it became necessary for...
Set the top border colour of a UINavBar
I’ve recently started developing iOS applications and on my journey of discovery I have discovered a number of useful little gems of information which I wanted to share.
Announcing Sirportly v5
What happened to v3?
Setting up an office network
Our office connectivity is relatively simple and pretty standard for most offices, so I thought I would share our configuration and how we’ve set everything up. I thought a blog...
Reminiscing: Desklamp
Back in 2006 when aTech was just a fledgling web design company, I started work on a CRM-type application to help us manage clients, jobs & quotes.
Introducing Shoppe
During October, I started looking for an e-commerce platform we could use to launch our first line shop for Dial 9. We needed to be able to sell products from...
Re‑designing the aTech Media logo
For the last months, I have been busy working on re-designing the logos for a number of our brands & companies. I wanted to explain a little of my reasoning...
Submodule Support in Deploy
Git submodules and Mercurial subrepos provide a mechanism to easily include shared code and libraries in your repository with a minimum of fuss.
De‑spamifying RailsForum.com
aTech recently were responsible for the complete re-launch of Rails Forum - a message board for Ruby on Rails developers. Unfortunately, the previous incarnation had filled with spam due to...