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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Get an international number?

Posted in October 2015 on the Dial 9 blog

If you make or receive international calls regularly, you'll be pleased to hear that we are now offering the option to add international numbers to your account.

Announce queue position & wait time

Posted in October 2015 on the Dial 9 blog

If you're taking lots of calls and are therefore using a Call Queue, you'll be pleased to know we've recently introduced some new features that will help improve the callers...

HTTP timeouts on web processes

Posted in September 2015 on the Viaduct blog

When you host an HTTP process on Viaduct, all requests go through our proxies which ensure that requests are sent to the right processes.

Repository browser

Posted in September 2015 on the Viaduct blog

We've just pushed a few feature out to myViaduct which will allow you to browse your repository from within the interface. This means you can easily click to see what...

Updating things live in the browser

Posted in August 2015 on the aTech Media blog

One of the things I am most proud and happy with in Coact so-far is the way that data updates made on the server are reflected in real time in the browser. For example, if someone renames a client

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A first look at Coact

Posted in July 2015 on the aTech Media blog

We've started work on the application and I'm really excited to be able to reveal the first look at the new interface for Coact. The screenshots you'll see below are part of the Client areas.

Memoization in Ruby

Posted in July 2015 on the aTech Media blog

Memoization is a technique employed in many languages which allows you to cache the results of slow or expensive operations and return the cached result whenever the method is subsequently...

Local gems for local apps

Posted in July 2015 on the aTech Media blog

If you’re a keen gem developer like myself and you regularly use them in your other applications, you may find it useful to know of this quick tip. It allows...

Using UUIDs

Posted in July 2015 on the aTech Media blog

Usually we just use incrementing integers as primary keys on our database objects however in Coact we're using UUIDs instead.