The new 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...
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MySQL Indexing Explained
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
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
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...
Finding a frontend workflow isn't easy
When I joined aTech Media in March this year, I was confident in my CSS methodology and workflow. It made sense to me, and I was confident that everyone around...
Optimizing your MySQL Server
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...
Introducing Deploy 2.0
Deploy's interface has remained pretty much unchanged since it's beta introduction in 2010. The app has changed since then and become more complicated, so we decided to give it a...
Reducing style repetition with Sass Maps and RGBA
Earlier this week, I posted this pen on Codepen as a means of documenting a few interesting things I had learnt whilst building a multi-theme application. The pen got a...
Ruby Tips & Tricks (part 2)
Last week, I posted part one of my Ruby Tips & Tricks for people new to Ruby. In part two, we've got a whole new set of fantastic things you may find useful:
Ruby Tips & Tricks (part 1)
Every day I use a huge number of different Ruby features and I take them for granted. It's not until you are thrown into the world of PHP or vanilla...
Nobody is reading your instructions
For almost four years we've had these instructions on Codebase for users setting up a notebook in their project.
Building Qoffee in 48‑hours for Rails Rumble
For the 2014 Edition of the Rails Rumble competition, we built Qoffee - an app to help avoid wasting time during meetings. Qoffee came 3rd out of over 300 teams.