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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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DeployHQ's Journey to the iOS App Store
When we decided to make native smartphone applications for DeployHQ we assumed that getting the iOS version approved on the store would be a simple affair. Unfortunately, this was not...
New price cap on 118 numbers
As a result of a growing concern about directory enquiry prices rising steeply, Ofcom have made the decision to introduce a price cap on calls to 118 numbers.
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 Smoothieware for motion control. Smoothieware is a great piece of software that runs...
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