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Simple Remote Pairing with wemux
Background Atomic Object is opening an office in Detroit. As part of the preparation for this new venture, I have been looking at ways to simplify remote pairing. I was happy to find out about a new project called wemux. Wemux is a script that simplifies the management of shared tmux sessions.
Also posted in Company, Pairing, Unix, Linux, and Bash Tagged bash, pairing, remote pairing, ssh, tmux, wemux 5 Comments
A single CI task for Rails
I recently battled some serious frustration in my Rails project; I’m posting what I learned here in hopes that it helps someone in the future. I like to have a single Rake task named ci for my continuous integration setup to use. Whether it’s a standard Ruby project, a Rails project, or even an Android...
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Be #patiently – FirePoll 1.2.0 Released
Ever come back to your terminal after a 15-minute test run and see a lone failure you know would have passed if your tests had been just a little more, um, patient? This happens to me all the time when I’m writing acceptance tests for web or desktop apps. If I were watching the app…
Also posted in Design & Development Tagged rails, RSpec, ruby, ruby_on_rails, TDD, testing 2 Comments
Learn Vim with Spaced Repetition
Last fall I started using Vim as my full-time text editor. Around that same time I came across a fascinating article from Wired titled Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm. The article is about Piotr Wozniak and the spaced repetition algorithm he developed called SuperMemo. SuperMemo is based on the…
Strange Loop
This year’s Strange Loop conference is shaping up to be the most interesting tech event of 2012 and Atomic Object is excited to be supporting it as a sponsor. The principles of Strange Loop are distilled from the stuff that makes a conference worth attending: No marketing. Keynotes are never sold to sponsors. If sponsorship…
Also posted in Design & Development, Languages, Unix, Linux, and Bash, Web Tagged conference, sponsorship, strange loop Leave a comment
UX Sketching: Useful and Fun
I’ve never considered myself to be a brilliant artist when it comes to drawing and sketching. Although I grew up watching Mark Kistler on PBS every morning, I think my drawing skills have always been mediocre at best. Instead, I greatly enjoyed mixed-media styles of creativity when I was a kid, and as a teenager,…
Also posted in User Experience, Visual Design 2 Comments
Andy Keller: Build vs Buy – Software GR
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.
Also posted in Design & Development, Process & Practices, Uncategorized Tagged design, development, Software GR Leave a comment
