Articles from 2013

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Introducing Viaduct

Posted in December 2013 on the Viaduct blog

Hello and welcome to the inaugural post on the Viaduct blog! In this initial post I wanted to quickly explain our plans and what we're doing about making them a...

Setting up an office network

Posted in December 2013 on the aTech Media blog

Our office connectivity is relatively simple and pretty standard for most offices, so I thought I would share our configuration and how we’ve set everything up. I thought a blog...

Reminiscing: Desklamp

Posted in December 2013 on the aTech Media blog

Back in 2006 when aTech was just a fledgling web design company, I started work on a CRM-type application to help us manage clients, jobs & quotes.

Introducing Shoppe

Posted in November 2013 on the aTech Media blog

During October, I started looking for an e-commerce platform we could use to launch our first line shop for Dial 9. We needed to be able to sell products from...

Re‑designing the aTech Media logo

Posted in November 2013 on the aTech Media blog

For the last months, I have been busy working on re-designing the logos for a number of our brands & companies. I wanted to explain a little of my reasoning...

Submodule Support in Deploy

Posted in August 2013 on the aTech Media blog

Git submodules and Mercurial subrepos provide a mechanism to easily include shared code and libraries in your repository with a minimum of fuss.

De‑spamifying RailsForum.com

Posted in August 2013 on the aTech Media blog

aTech recently were responsible for the complete re-launch of Rails Forum - a message board for Ruby on Rails developers. Unfortunately, the previous incarnation had filled with spam due to...

Designing the aTech infrastructure

Posted in July 2013 on the aTech Media blog

When we started building our own web applications we knew there would come a day when we would need to start getting serious about hosting our tools on the internet....

Today's .io issues

Posted in July 2013 on the aTech Media blog

This afternoon there was an issue which affected all .io domains across the internet. As there has been no official word from ICB (the registrar which runs .io domains among...