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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Export your databases

Posted in August 2014 on the Viaduct blog

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

Posted in July 2014 on the aTech Media blog

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

Posted in June 2014 on the aTech Media blog

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...

Direct access to processes & databases

Posted in May 2014 on the Viaduct blog

Your Viaduct environment is usually safely ensconced on our private network and inaccessible from the outside world. However, there are times when you need direct access to certain components of...

Git submodules now available

Posted in April 2014 on the Viaduct blog

Git users can now take advantage of submodules in their repositories. Until now, submodules could not be deployed using Viaduct.

Sexy console colours

Posted in April 2014 on the Viaduct blog

The Viaduct logging interface was improved a couple of weeks ago to make it even easier to see exactly what your processes are saying to you.

Easy repository selection from GitHub

Posted in April 2014 on the Viaduct blog

If you store your repositories on GitHub, you'll now find that deploying them from Viaduct is even easier than before. Instead of copy and pasting URLs and keys all over...

Pro‑tips for PHP users

Posted in April 2014 on the Viaduct blog

If you're deploying a PHP application to Viaduct, here are a couple of tips which may help you along the way.