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 illness and its treatment. The … Read more
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 mutually beneficial partnership. The interns … Read more
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 and well-being at the heart … Read more
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, Researcher and CEO at the … Read more
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 to resources within your cloud … Read more
Setting up an Arduino build process, with multiple targets/configurations using GitHub Actions for stable and reproducible builds.
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 are one or more critical … Read more
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 was comparable to when I … Read more
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 ran the test suite: Frustratingly, … Read more
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 behaviour. A password policy enforces … Read more
