Record everything with Notebooks
Notebooks allow you to keep all of your documentation in a safe, structured and versioned way. To setup your notebook, navigate to your project, open the Notebook tab and click...
Dan
My name is Dan. My primary role at aTech is to develop and maintain our hosted applications, such as Codebase and Deploy. I'm often the person who responds to helpdesk tickets where further investigation is needed. My preferences include; beer over lager, dogs over cats, coffee over tea and cars from the 80s.
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Building Commit Graphs
Git and Mercurial both come packaged with handy utilities to visualise the commits in your repository as a graph. We include this functionality in the Codebase interface as well. A...
Seamless socket server restarts in Ruby
We utilise a variety of custom socket servers to support our applications. Most of our apps have at least one. We write RPC servers to interact with repository storage in...
Force Push Protection
It happens to every team, someone force-pushes to the repository and overwrites the branch, instead of pulling and merging changes like they should. We want to make this a thing...
Progress and Deadlines
Today we're making a small change to the ticket creation and updating forms. We're rolling the "Sprints" and "Dates and Milestones" tab into one unified tab, "Progress and Deadlines".
Kanban Board 2.0
If you've been a part of our agile beta you'll probably be familiar with the Kanban Board functionality that's available as part of a sprint. Today I'd like to introduce...
Smoother image attachments
Drag and dropping file attachments into your tickets and discussions just got better. Drag a PNG or JPEG image onto your update to have a link to it automatically inserted...
Tidy up your Branches
If you're anything like me you're terrible at tidying up your remote branches once you've merged your work, leading you to having a great big, long list in Codebase. This...
Better Contacts and Companies
Today we're introducing a new way to view your contacts and their associated tickets; by company! Open up your Contacts tab in Sirportly and select 'View Companies' on the right.
Global Hooks
Codebase has always offered users a way to post project-events to third party services such as Slack or HipChat, or to your own services using HTTP Post. Unfortunately, up until...
Syntax Highlighted Diffs
Hot on the heels of our Side-by-Side Diff Views update comes syntax highlighting in diffs. This should make reading diffs much easier than before.
Side-by‑side Diff Views
Sometimes the traditional diff view can be hard to read, particularly in busy changesets where you have a lot of deletions and additions.