Adam

Adam is the Head of Software at Krystal. Adam looks after our software engineering team by day and, when not doing that, enjoys hobbies including LEGO, collecting playing cards, building mechanical keyboards and home automation.

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Change Repository URLs

Posted in December 2014 on the Viaduct blog

Something we've been looking at for a while is the ability to change a repository URL once you have already deployed your application.

New Application Error Pages

Posted in December 2014 on the Viaduct blog

In light of our recent redesign, it was time for us to refresh the look of the error pages which can appear if there are issues when accessing applications hosted...

Our Referral Programme

Posted in December 2014 on the Viaduct blog

History tells us that word of mouth is one of the best tools to ensure growth. In light of that, we're announcing our new referral programme to encourage our users...

Ruby 2.1.x Platform Changes

Posted in December 2014 on the Viaduct blog

Due to Ruby's relatively new versioning policy, we will now only be maintaining one version of Ruby per minor release (for example, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 etc...). When a new tiny...

Installing Ghost on Viaduct

Posted in December 2014 on the Viaduct blog

Ghost is a fantastic new blogging engine (which we're using here) and it's now fully supported on the Viaduct platform. It's really really easy to get started.

Introducing Deploy 2.0

Posted in December 2014 on the aTech Media blog

Deploy's interface has remained pretty much unchanged since it's beta introduction in 2010. The app has changed since then and become more complicated, so we decided to give it a...

Organizations

Posted in December 2014 on the Viaduct blog

Today we're introducing Organizations. Organizations allow you to ensure that any of your Viaduct resources (currently Platform or WebPush apps) can be billed to given organization rather than always being...

Levelling‑up production databases

Posted in December 2014 on the Viaduct blog

It's time to level-up production databases. Today we're announcing a new Tiny package which will allow you to deploy production-ready Mongo, Redis & memcache instances for just £7/month!

Invite others to your WebPush applications

Posted in December 2014 on the Viaduct blog

If you've started using our new WebPush service, you can now invite your colleagues to manage your WebPush applications too. Just head over to the application and choose Permissions from...

Ruby Tips & Tricks (part 2)

Posted in November 2014 on the aTech Media blog

Last week, I posted part one of my Ruby Tips & Tricks for people new to Ruby. In part two, we've got a whole new set of fantastic things you may find useful:

Ruby Tips & Tricks (part 1)

Posted in November 2014 on the aTech Media blog

Every day I use a huge number of different Ruby features and I take them for granted. It's not until you are thrown into the world of PHP or vanilla...

Hello Viaduct WebPush

Posted in November 2014 on the Viaduct blog

Viaduct WebPush is new service from Viaduct providing you with the tools you need to implement real-time messaging in your applications. Using web sockets, Viaduct WebPush includes the server-side infrastructure...