Preparing a new Mac
I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade my trusty Macbook Pro from Mavericks to Yosemite and taken the opportunity to give the machine a bit of a cleanup. I...
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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String Interpolation in Rails
A while ago I wrote a small library to handle string interpolation in a Rails application. The library allows you to safely allow users to insert variables into strings they...
Personal access tokens
The Viaduct API allows you to interact with your account and your Viaduct resources programmatically. For example, you can easily use it to start a deployment or see the current...
UI improvements to Codebase
For the last couple of months, we've been working away on a bunch of new UI improvments to Codebase.
Application grid view
We've just pushed a new feature to Viaduct's web interface allowing you to browse your applications in a grid rather than a list. When you use the grid view, you'll...
Force start on deployment
Whenever you deploy your application on Viaduct, we do a number of checks to make sure that your processes have started and are running properly before make the deployment active...
A new lick of paint for my personal blog
I was feeling at a bit of a loose end last night so I decided that my blog could do with a bit of a facelift.
Creating MOSS returns for HMRC with JSON
HMRC (the UK tax authority) have finally announced how UK businesses should submit details of their digital sales to other EU countries for their new VAT MOSS system. In my...
Scaling processes from the API
We've just launched a new API method which allows you to easily scale the number of processes running up or down whenever needed.
Transferring apps to other users
When we launched our organizations feature, we added functionality to allow you to transfer your applications between your organizations. However, this didn't allow you to easily transfer apps to other...
Billing, SaaS startups & accounting software
After speaking to a few people, I've noticed that a number of startups and SaaS companies are unsure on the best way to integrate their custom billing systems with their...
A new look aTech Identity
For those of you who don't know, aTech Identity is our single sign on system which is used across many of our apps to allow you to login to any...