Merging Pull Requests on GitHub
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.
All articles
Displaying posts 409 - 420 of 439 in total
Improve session security in Rails apps
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
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
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
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: