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The Ethics of Our Gadgets

By Will Ryan | Published: February 10, 2012

There’s been a lot of news lately regarding Apple and its relationship with manufacturers and suppliers, particularly Foxconn. A lot of Atoms are big Apple junkies, but as a group we are very into sustainability, so of course it was quite troubling to hear that my iPhone might be the result of someone’s back-breaking shift…

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Thank You Economic Gardening Team

By Michael Marsiglia | Published: January 27, 2012

Late last year, Atomic was selected to participate in the Pure Michigan Economic Gardening Pilot Program. The program offered expert business consulting for growing companies. We focused the opportunity on Atomic’s strategic growth goal of opening an office in Detroit.

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A New App Marketplace: Your Car

By Nick Christensen | Published: January 26, 2012

January is a great time to be a geek. Even better if you’re also a car geek, because January is the month of both CES and the North American International Auto Show. New technologies continue to permeate every corner of our lives, and the car has never been an exception. It’s fitting then, that these…

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2011 – A Great Start for Atomic Embedded

By Scott Miller | Published: December 21, 2011

Almost one year ago Atomic Object put together a new group dedicated to embedded development and Atomic Embedded was born. The year has gone by so quickly, and the pace of events within the embedded group has kept up as well. We started the year with a group size of three (Greg, Mike, and me)….

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Ludum Dare 22 Jam Entry

By Karlin Fox | Published: December 19, 2011
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Over the weekend, myself, Shawn Anderson, and Jason Porritt built a game to submit to the Ludum Dare 22 Jam. Ludum Dare is an open videogame creation competition that a few Atoms have competed in previously. Unlike the regular, individual competition (48 hours with results judged over the next two weeks) the Jam is a…

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In Memoriam

By Paul Hart | Published: October 6, 2011

Atomic Object mourns the loss of Steve Jobs, 1955-October 5, 2011. Statement by Apple’s Board of Directors Stanford’s 2005 Commencement address delivered by Steve

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Atomic Object Sponsors Pry

By Micah Alles | Published: September 18, 2011

Atomic Object is proud to sponsor Pry, an open source IRB replacement created by John Mair (aka banisterfiend). John and other Pry contributors have been hard at work not only building a better general purpose ruby shell, but one with goals as lofty as reproducing a REPL-based dev environment like SLIME for lisp. Pry’s source…

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Now We Are Ten

By Scott Miller | Published: September 12, 2011

Ten years is a long time. You can go from newlywed to a family of five, including boys in fourth and second grade. That’s pretty good considering that the average marriage in the US lasts only eight years. You can eat up the first half of your “middle age”, but still console yourself with the…

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Atomic’s HQ hosts local artists

By Mary O'Neill | Published: September 12, 2011
Living Light Dance + Arts In Motion Studios

The 3rd Annual ArtPeers Fall Festival is less than a week away, and we are happy to once again share our space with talented local artists and Grand Rapids’ art-loving community. We invite you to experience nine artists’ work in person (map to Atomic) from 11:00am to 7:00pm on Saturday, Sept 17, 2011.

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Atomic’s 10th Birthday Celebration

By Mary O'Neill | Published: September 1, 2011

In August 2001, Carl Erickson and Bill Bereza founded Atomic Object. In the last ten years, we’ve grown (with the goal of being great not big), learned a lot, and delivered great software to a wide range of customers. We’ve also grown together as a family whose culture requires each of us to care deeply,…

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