Backstage

Tips and tricks about the various things that go on behind the scenes at a UK software development company.

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Using SIP3 for call traffic analysis

Posted in March 2022 on the Dial 9 blog

Within Dial 9, we utilise a number of tools for call monitoring and analysis. One particular service we use, especially when it comes to customer support, is SIP3.

Porting ‑ explained

Posted in February 2022 on the Dial 9 blog

If you're looking at changing your phone provider, you'll most likely want to transfer your existing number across to the new provider so that your customers can still reach you...

Building Commit Graphs

Posted in April 2017 on the Codebase blog

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...

Data Protection at Codebase

Posted in February 2017 on the Codebase blog

In light of recent events, we wanted to write a quick post to outline the measures we take to ensure that the data you entrust to us is safe and how we monitor the techniques used to ensure they will be ready for use when we need them.

Managing your threads with Queue

Posted in April 2015 on the Codebase blog

One of my favourite utilities in the Ruby standard library is the Queue class. Queue provides you with a delightfully simple way to synchronise communication between threads. Typically, Queue is...

Creating MOSS returns for HMRC with JSON

Posted in March 2015 on the aTech Media blog

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...

Reminiscing: Desklamp

Posted in December 2013 on the aTech Media blog

Back in 2006 when aTech was just a fledgling web design company, I started work on a CRM-type application to help us manage clients, jobs & quotes.