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New Features 2019.11

Partners of VI participating in our Development Programme drive forward a better experience for both their staff and members/customers. Crucially, we innovate this experience while adhering to leading security standards. We have five great new Infinity features to report on in this November blog post to highlight this aspect of the programme.

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Docker for Mac Performance using NFS (Updated for macOS Catalina)

We heavily use Docker for Mac for the internal development of our products. It allows us to closely replicate the internal, automated testing, user acceptance testing and production platforms. There is just one problem, that I'm sure you've also found... The performance of the file system when using volume mounts.

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New Features 2019.09

Apollo Launchpad has blasted off in 2019! Read this to get up to speed on our new service for credit unions facing challenges processing loan applications, authenticating members, onboarding new members and more. This service integrates seamlessly with the other services in the Apollo ecosystem.

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New Apollo Mobile App Launched

Spring 2019 sees the successful completion by VI of the new and improved Apollo mobile app for credit unions. Key features include a modern redesign, Face ID authentication, and refactoring behind the scenes to streamline development of future new features.

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VI Fintech @ ABCUL 2019

Representatives of the VI team blasted off to exhibit Apollo, and the Infinity programme, at the ABCUL Annual Conference this year at the Midland Hotel in Manchester. While we have had a presence at ABCUL in previous years, this is the first time we have supported the event in an exhibitor capacity. Leaflets and the Mobile App demo are available further down this blog post, in case you missed us there!

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Our journey to modern JS

We recently needed to navigate the minefield that is modern JavaScript development to implement our new JS stack on our Web Projects. In this blog post we share some of the decisions we made in the interests of sharing our experiences with the community.

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Summer Internship Part 3- Teamwork & Planning

Previously Matt detailed the day-to-day effects of internship from the perspective of the development team with key input from Steven, our Summer Intern. They also shared advice for future internships. Here we explore the impacts of internship on successfully planning for and coordinating an Agile development team used to working with colleagues accustomed to our implicit ‘culture and rituals’. We have used this internship to look for opportunities to enhance the positive impacts of future internships for the team and company, and mitigate against any challenges. Key takeaways are noted in bold.

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New Features 2018.11

Here is our November update on some of the new features we have developed for organisations that use Apollo (NXG). We encourage you to get in touch with us for more information. Each new feature we are highlighting has a corresponding product code (for example ABC-123).

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Summer Internship Part 2- Day-to-day

In part 1 of this series of blog posts we explored some of the setup and strategy of the process of taking on Steven as an intern. In this post, we'll explore more of the day-to-day working as a development team.

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Summer Internship Part 1- Setup and strategy

Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing

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New Features 2018.07

Read on for our July update on some of the new features we have developed for organisations that use our Apollo (NXG) system. We are confident that key features on this list will be useful to your Credit Union and encourage you to get in touch with us for more information. Each new feature we are highlighting has a corresponding product code (for example ABC-123).

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