Building Qoffee in 48‑hours for Rails Rumble
For the 2014 Edition of the Rails Rumble competition, we built Qoffee - an app to help avoid wasting time during meetings. Qoffee came 3rd out of over 300 teams.
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Automatic Deployments
A much requested feature is the ability to automatically deploy your Viaduct application when code is pushed to your repository. Well... I'm pleased to say this is now a reality.
The EU, Tech Companies & VAT
Starting from January 2015, there are going to be some changes to way EU tech companies need to charge VAT to consumers. In the past, you would simply charge EU...
Documentation Engine for Rails
A couple of months ago, I wrote a Rails engine which provides applications with complete documentation library functionality by simply adding a gem.
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...
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.
Export your databases
It's important to keep backups of any data which you upload to Viaduct (or, indeed, any hosting provider). We've just added a new Database Export feature which allows you to...
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.
Access application consoles with SSH
Hot on the heels of the support for accessing remote databases & processes remotely, we now have released new functionality to allow you to SSH directly to your console without...
Announcing Sirportly v5
What happened to v3?