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Atomic’s HQ hosts local artists

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

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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What’s Happening at Atomic Embedded

Exciting days are afoot inside Atomic Object’s Embedded Group. Our group was born of Atomic’s desire to see the Agile practices that have been so successful in the main product development group be applied to our relatively few embedded customers. What began almost as a dare nearly four years ago,  became its own group at the beginning of this…

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Deatomized

Today is my last day as an Atom in the AO Molecule. In fact, this blog post is very likely my last act as an Atomic Object employee. This is a bittersweet moment to be sure. I’ve been with Atomic for seven plus years now, but my connection goes back even further. I knew Carl…

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Lightweight Data-driven Project Management Presentation

What is the presentation about? Carl and I will be presenting about the use of burn-up charts as a vital element of data-driven project management. Atomic has been using this simple technique for more than five years. Burn-up charts are a lightweight method of tracking a team’s progress toward completing a project. Burn-up charts do…

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Moving to WordPress

We recently moved this blog from Mephisto hosted internally to WordPress on page.ly. One of our goals was to migrate our existing library of posts forward into the new site. We accomplished this, but not without some work massaging a WordPress export file. If you are migrating from Mephisto to WordPress, you might find our…

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Atomic Embedded is Growing

In January, 2011 Atomic Object spun off its first group: Atomic Embedded. We started with three members: Mike Karlesky, Greg Williams, and me. I am happy to announce that AE has now doubled in size! Our first new hire, Nick Christensen, found us via a post on the excellent AgileEmbedded Yahoo group. Nick came to…

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Lean Startup event comes to Grand Rapids

Entrepreneurs, investors, and product managers: Are you looking for a way to improve the chances of your product’s success? Okay so it’s a pretty rhetorical question, right? Of course you want to improve your chances for success. Lucky for you some really smart people have been creating a framework to help. It is called the…

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Sublime Text Editor Goes Cross-Platform

Sublime Text 2 (S2) is in alpha release status with try-before-you buy. There is a lot of hype that S2 will be the new TextMate replacement on OSX, but it is cross-platform, so will likely break into Linux and Windows very strongly. It is has some ground-breaking new ways of editing code including multiple cursors…

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Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference 2011

The Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference (GLSEC) is happening on April 16 this year. GLSEC is organized by SoftwareGR. This is the fifth time for the conference, but a new season and format. We’re experimenting this year with a Saturday, one-day conference, and we’ve moved it from November to April. The format and content remain…

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