Atomic Object just recently released a brand new website. I had opportunity to touch essentially every part of the project – programming, navigation, writing, moving content over from old to new, graphical design, stylesheets, and search engine juice. This is the first time I was involved in an end-to-end website project of this nature. It was a lot of work but a lot of fun as well. I learned a great deal.

One of the people who was instrumental in making this new site come to life was Dustin Tinney. He suggested I read Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug.

I came across this article today while looking for information about the current state of Ruby + Visual Studio 2005: Unit testing your documentation.

The author of the article is also the author of ‘Ruby Cookbook,’ an Oreilly book in the same vein as the Perl and Python cookbooks. In the article, he talks about, well, unit testing his documentation. More specifically, he wanted to make sure the Ruby snippets in his book would still run and produce the same output as he claims it does. Eventually, he managed to create some scripts to parse out Ruby code + IRB output, extend IRB a bit, and wrap everything up nicely as Test::Unit testcases.

The Grand Rapids Business Journal just published a really great article about us. Daniel Schoonmaker really captured the essence of our business and the great things that have been happening for us as of late. A reprint is available through our website: Atomic Object Goes National.