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Improved Ticket Navigation

Posted in March 2015 on the Sirportly blog

The best features are the ones that let people get on with their work quicker and easier. Sometimes that just means making a small, simple addition to your user interface.

A new look aTech Identity

Posted in March 2015 on the aTech Media blog

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...

Merging Pull Requests on GitHub

Posted in March 2015 on the aTech Media blog

Today I’m talking about the merge button on GitHub, why you shouldn’t use it and presenting an alternative which is cleaner & easier to use.

Improve session security in Rails apps

Posted in February 2015 on the aTech Media blog

In Rails applications, it’s really easy to allow users to login to your application. You ask them for a username & password, you check they’re correct and you pop their...

Sirportly and Customer Thermometer

Posted in February 2015 on the Sirportly blog

Recently, we've been working with our friends over at Customer Thermometer to integrate their excellent customer satisfaction survey tool with Sirportly.

The new Sirportly blog

Posted in January 2015 on the Sirportly blog

Welcome to our new Sirportly blog! We've been rather lax with updates on our old blog but we hope to change all that. We have a number of new updating...

MySQL Indexing Explained

Posted in January 2015 on the Katapult blog

In the time we've been assisting people with hosting their web applications, the most common reason we've seen for performance problems has been missing or incorrectly used database indexes, so...

Home‑made crunchie ice cream

Posted in December 2014 on the aTech Media blog

With Christmas fast approaching and with indulgence and over-eating very much part of the holiday, I made one of my favourite desserts — Crunchie Ice Cream. This is a bit of an...

Christmas 2014

Posted in December 2014 on the aTech Media blog

It's coming up to Christmas time here at aTech HQ. We'll be closed for the Christmas period from 24th December until 2nd January. During this time, you won't be able...

Optimizing your MySQL Server

Posted in December 2014 on the Katapult blog

When building a scalable web application, the first performance problem most people will encounter is with their database queries. As your database grows, it is very likely that things will...