Open Source

We're avid fans of open source, we use it and contribute hundreds of our own projects to the community. Keep up to date with them all.

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Postal ‑ our open source mail platform

Posted in June 2017 on the aTech Media blog

We're delighted to announce that we've just open sourced our e-mail delivery platform, Postal. Postal is a complete and fully featured mail server for use by websites & web servers....

Seamless socket server restarts in Ruby

Posted in March 2017 on the aTech Media blog

We utilise a variety of custom socket servers to support our applications. Most of our apps have at least one. We write RPC servers to interact with repository storage in...

Resizing your uploaded images

Posted in March 2017 on the aTech Media blog

A couple of days ago I wrote about uploading attachments and in this tutorial I'm going to look at doing some processing on those attachments once they have been uploaded....

How to install Staytus from scratch

Posted in March 2017 on the aTech Media blog

Staytus is the open source publishing platform that I developed last year when we needed something simple to help us communicate with our customers when issues arise with our service....

AppMail for PHP

Posted in November 2016 on the AppMail blog

We've just pushed a little PHP library which will help PHP users send e-mails through AppMail.

Running Ruby apps in production

Posted in October 2016 on the aTech Media blog

Over the last few months, I’ve been working on a number of Ruby applications which have a requirement to run a few different types of process — web servers, workers, crons — in order...

Memoization in Ruby

Posted in July 2015 on the aTech Media blog

Memoization is a technique employed in many languages which allows you to cache the results of slow or expensive operations and return the cached result whenever the method is subsequently...