One of our New Year’s resolutions for 2018 at IDRsolutions was to give the code base a thorough review and tidy. It has been written over the last 15 years and there are lots of areas which can be improved in 2018 (using newer Java constructs, rewriting with hindsight, repaying technical debt, removing used code,…
Recently IDRsolutions have undergone a branding transformation for the first time since 1999. Late 2017 we had internally decided as a team that we wanted to re-visit our company branding. This also included a rebrand of all of our products which you can read about here. When this rebrand started we hadn’t initially decided to rebrand our…
Coming up with a name for a new product can be surprisingly difficult. It is also very important. If you get it right, a good name can become your brand. One of the hardest things is that lots of good names sound silly when you first say them. A classic example is Smart Bear. When…
2018 sees the introduction of a new law after a 2 year transition period. The General Data Protection Regulation will have an impact on any companies selling into any European Union country (regardless of their location). These rules have teeth and the full weight of the European Court of Justice behind them. Failure to comply…
As security is an ever present issue we thought we would highlight some security features offered by the PDF file format that can be enabled if you want to control or limit which actions users can perform. This blog post will cover what type of actions you can prevent and some different authentication techniques that…
