Raising awareness & fundraising for Cavendish Cancer Care by completing the Leeds Half Marathon.
Cavendish Cancer Care is a Sheffield based charity that provides support to local families affected by cancer. They give those affected and their families the chance to talk in confidence and offer complementary therapies to help alleviate both the emotional strain of cancer, and the physical side effects of the […]
How two interns became valued team members after they struggled to find placements within Sheffield’s technology community.
Last summer The Curve was fortunate to work with two amazing interns who were looking to gain real-world experience in the software industry whilst planning their next steps to University. Although we weren’t actively seeking to bring interns into the business, the decision to do so has resulted in a […]
The Curve to deliver Ethical Social Group’s straight-talking dating app: Fluttr
Ethical Social Group (ESG), a tech company with a mission to rebuild social platforms for good, has appointed The Curve as one of their Technology Delivery Partners. The Macclesfield-based group was established in 2019, and aims to deliver a suite of next-generation social applications that place member privacy, security, fun […]
What does it mean when we say “Tech for Good”?
The phrase ‘tech for good’ has become commonplace in recent years, and even more so following the past 18 months when so much of the world has relied heavily on digital solutions to tackle the problems presented by the pandemic. But what does it really mean? According to Dan Sutch, […]
Securing your cloud with a Bastion host
Using a Bastion or gateway host can be one of the quickest security measures that you can use to reduce the attach surface of resources running within your cloud environment. The idea of a Bastion host is fairly simple. A Bastion host is used to allow operational or internal access […]
Production Arduino Binary Builds with GitHub Actions
Setting up an Arduino build process, with multiple targets/configurations using GitHub Actions for stable and reproducible builds.
Why we didn’t need to change our phone system for remote working
When COVID struck and everyone went into lock down, a lot of businesses had to change how they worked to adjust to a new life of working from home. At The Curve we were fortunate that little changed in the transition to home working. For a lot of businesses there […]
Melise Jones on Women in Tech
Our Business Development Director, Melise Jones, reflects on what it means to be a woman in tech. Before Women in Tech there were, well, women in tech… I never thought there was anything special or remarkable about the fact that I had entered a field dominated by fellas. The feeling […]
Dealing with cryptic Selenium::WebDriver::Error::InvalidSessionIdError errors
We believe in delivering high quality software for our clients, so it probably comes as no surprise that we subscribe ourselves to numerous best practices such as test driven development, and we adopt a strong testing culture. On one project, we started getting a very cryptic error message when we […]
Why password policies aren’t enough
We’re all been there, we’ve had to set a password in a system and we’ve been told it’s not strong enough. Or we finally set a strong password only to be told 30 days later that we need to change our password. Password policies aren’t enough to encourage good security […]