Shawn Anderson on Atomic Spin

Building Better Board Games with Clojure and Gorilla REPL

Using my Clojure model and Gorilla, I can run 10,000 games in seconds and quickly analyze the results. This let me build the board game I wanted.

Ember.js

Ember.js Components with DOM Dependencies

Ember.js is a great framework for building single-page applications with clear guidelines. But what happens when things aren't so cut and dry?

Ruby on Rails

Testing Data Migrations in Rails

When approaching rails data migrations, there are two complications: future-proofing and testing. This post walks through an example migration.

Ember.js

Embedding Ember in Existing Apps

How to embed an Ember.js app within a Rails app to update your technology, improve user experience, and speed up future development.

Ember.js

Native HTML Apps with Xamarin

Why and how to use Xamarin as a Cordova replacement. Shows how to set up a multi-platform mobile native web app with two-way JavaScript interoperability.

Development Practices

Learning from Game Dev: Entity, Component, Systems

Branching out into unfamiliar paradigms is a great source of new ideas and patterns to write better software.

Platforms & Languages

Selecting Top N Per Group in PostgreSQL

I wanted to select the top two items in our PostgreSQL database, grouped by color, and sorted by when they were created.

iOS / OS X

Managing Multiple BLE Devices in iOS

Bluetooth Low Energy is a popular choice for connecting devices to smart phones, but what do you do when dealing with multiple BLE devices in iOS?

Culture

Atomic Teach and Learn: Now at Hope College

I'm teaching with the goal that by the end of the class, any of these students could jump on my current project and start contributing.

Ruby on Rails

6 Months of Avoiding Rails Controllers with DDC

A review the Data Driven Controllers (ddc gem) after a few months of use.

Extracurricular Activities

Spy on Your Garden with Garden KnowEms

Garden KnowEms read temperature, humidity, light, and moisture and send data to a watering station or smart phone via BluetoothLE.

Extracurricular Activities

Building an Infinite Procedurally-Generated World

To build our terrain, we need something better than just randomly selecting a tile for each set of coordinates.

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