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Automation Consulting to Optimise Your Business
Have you ever tracked how long some of the day-to-day admin tasks take in your business? It's easy to lose time to these tasks without noticing, and suddenly find hours spent doing the repetitive work that is an important, but not necessarily effective, use of your time.
Why Maintaining Your Organisation's Software is Key to Success
Maintaining an up-to-date software stack is fundamental to the security of your business. The rapid pace of technological advancement makes it essential to keep every component current to ensure security, performance, and compatibility.
A Complete View of the Data in your Business
In today’s data-driven world, it is more important than ever to have a complete view of the data that sits across your organisation. In daily operations, a business can generate and manage various data across multiple applications and sources, such as CRMs, daily operations, spreadsheets, and more.
How Data Engineering Services Can Help Your Business
Data engineering is a key function for all businesses in today's data-driven world. Learn how our Data Engineering Services can help your business make better decisions, improve operations, and enhance services to benefit your customers.
Rails with Vue: Your First Component
This is intended to be an introduction to the VueJS framework, running from the creation of a new Rails project through to creating your first Vue component
Rails on Docker: System Specs in Containers with RSpec, Capybara, Chrome, and Selenium
Rails 5 makes system specs easy to configure in a standard environment, configuring them in a containerised environment can be a little trickier - even more so if you are using RSpec rather than Rails' default minitest framework.
Supporting Plymouth's Mayflower Forest
Plymouth Software are proud to have helped fund Plymouth's Mayflower Forest project. Over 1000 trees will be planted to create a new green gateway to Plymouth on the Marsh Mills roundabout.
GitHub for Beginners
At time of writing, I’ve just finished the second year of my CompSci degree and am taking a placement year in industry. Two years ago, I had absolutely no programming experience and I’m sure there are other people in a similar situation.
Rails on Docker: Using an Entrypoint File in your Containers
When using Docker to run your Rails apps in development, you might come across a leftover server.pid file in your app's tmp/ folder. Learn how to overcome this problem, especially when scaling the number of your app's containers
Ruby on Rails: 5 Checks to Make Before Launching Your App
Launching your app into production is a huge step, and there are often lots of different things you need to set up to ensure not only that the deployment works as expected, but also that your app continues to run smoothly once it is running in production.
Rails on Docker: Using Yarn to Manage Frontend Assets
If you’re using Yarn to manage your app’s frontend libraries, you’ll need to ensure that Yarn is available to use when adding or precompiling your assets in your Docker container. To do this, you’ll need to add a few extra lines to your app’s Dockerfile.
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