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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 mutually beneficial partnership. The interns … Read more

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 and well-being at the heart … Read more

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, Researcher and CEO at the … Read more

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 was comparable to when I … Read more

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 ran the test suite: Frustratingly, … Read more

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 behaviour. A password policy enforces … Read more

In It Together Signing Off for Now…

Back in March, our team at The Curve responded to the challenges and uncertainty brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. We pulled together to do what we could to help one another out, both personally and professionally. During those early days of the crisis, we launched In It Together – a community project meant to … Read more