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Recently we hosted Software GR with guest Andy Keller from Traction Software. Keller’s talk was on when to build or buy technologies in software development. In his presentation, Keller gives us some examples on buying vs building and shows how Traction Software developed their app with both custom and third party software.
In one of the web projects I have been working on we have a handful of elements on the page change size when they were “toggled”. This was a simple add and remove of an active class (via jQuery’s addClass() and removeClass()) that caused our elements to snap open and closed. The user experience was…
This last summer a few friends and I were working on a couple of small Android applications. When it came to testing the application on various devices, some of the people we approached to help test the app were not as technologically advanced as we were. For most of the people we were working with,…
It’s that time of the year again: Christmas, then New Year’s, the Super Bowl, and snow. You are on the go all the time, from work to family parties and anything else that keeps you busy this time of year. In the hustle and bustle of the season, you still remain a geek. Many of…
Everyone stumbles into problems from time to time which they can’t immediately solve; you can’t know everything all the time. Fortunately, with a culture of learning present here are Atomic Object, we are all teachers and students. If one of us stumbles into a problem, we can turn to our programming pair, or another pair…
Being new to Atomic, I am also quite new to a few of the regular tools we use. One of the most used tools of our developers is Vim. We have a nice set of starter scripts and tweaks to greatly improve Vim, but what if you don’t know how to use it? Vim is…
Building an application on the new Rails 3.1 opens up a new way to serve up assets. The public folder is no longer the supported place for CSS, images and fonts, instead they live in the app/assets/* and vendor/assets/* folders. On my current project at AO we use custom fonts, initially hosted by Google, but…
A little over 5 weeks ago I took on the role of an apprentice at Atomic Object. I was forewarned that I would be learning a ton, and I have certainly done so. From my own exploration and studying in the evenings to the prompting and prodding from co-workers, I can say I have learned…
jQuery to the rescue again! jQuery Mobile is built on jQuery and helps ease work on mobile based web applications. The framework gives a great start to a mobile site with very little effort making a custom mobile interface. The examples below are also found on github.
Carl is the president and co-founder of Atomic Object