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Integrate Slack with your phone system
Postal ‑ our open source mail platform
Refined user permissions in DeployHQ
aTech Media & the GDPR
As you will no doubt be aware, a new set of data protection regulations known as the GDPR will be arriving on the 25th May. These regulations are wide reaching...
Event driven servers in Ruby
We use a lot of different server software here to accomplish various tasks. In the case of web servers, there is a great deal of excellent software available to achieve...
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...
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Discontinuation of GitHub services in favour of webhooks
Recently, GitHub posted some announcements in relation to the deprecation and discontinuation of their old Services, to be replaced by Webhooks. This primarily affects Automatic Deployments in DeployHQ.
Create your own audio greetings with our new text-to‑speech features
We're delighted to announce the addition of a new feature to the Dial 9 platform today - the ability to create your own audio greetings straight from a script, via...
Smoothieware on MKS SBASE
As part of an ongoing project to build a Pick and Place machine, I decided to use Smoothiware for motion control. Smoothieware is a great piece of software that runs...
What does React.memo do?
React.memo is a higher order component that you can use to ensure functional components only re-render when the props change (much like PureComponent for class components).
What’s the cheapest way to get a landline?
Dial 9’s call forwarding service is easily the cheapest way to get a landline for your business. For just £5/month, you can choose a free 01, 02, 0330 or 0800 telephone number and receive 60 inclusive minutes every month for free.
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