Ryan Abel on Atomic Spin

Ember.js

Understanding Ember.js Computed Properties

Computed properties allow quick ways to massage and manipulate data into the form your application needs it. It makes presenting data a cinch.

.NET / WPF

Accessing a .NET Virtual Machine Application from a Host Machine

This is a guide to enabling a .NET application on a virtual machine to be accessed from the host machine.

Personal Optimization

Why You Should Never Use the Word “Obviously”

Obviously is a purely a destructive word — it's often used when a new concept is built from pre-existing but unexplained (and often unexamined) ideas.

Developer Tools

Why I Prefer AppCode over Xcode

For the last 6 month, I've had the opportunity to use AppCode as my primary IDE, and it's head-and-shoulders above Xcode.

iOS / OS X

Simplify iOS Models With Mantle – An Intro

Mantle is a framework that makes using iOS models ridiculously easy. It's useful for serialization, deserialization, and equality.

Evolving the Industry

The Future of Wearable Technology

Wearable technology has already come a long way, but it has not yet reached it's full potential.

Personal Optimization

4 Ways to Mitigate the Effects of Context Switching

Context switching is unavoidable, but you can learn to do it less often and train yourself to get back on track faster after each switch.

Growing as Makers

New Job? 3 Tips for Overcoming Your Fear

Starting a first job can be scary, intimidating, and overwhelming. Here are three ways to conquer your fear and start growing.

.NET / WPF

IEnumerable, for a More Elegant C#

IEnumerable provides several benefits to C#, including improved readability, more elegant solutions, and code composability.

Development Practices

3 Benefits of Fake APIs

Fake APIs have been enormously helpful — opening lines of communication, allowing for parallelization, and exposing problems in their early stages.

Embedded Systems

Localizing Strings in Objective-C

With ibtool and Localized String, you can have your application ready to be translated into a number of different languages in just a few steps.

Personal Optimization

How Do You Know What You Don’t Know?

These three questions can help me identify my understanding of any topic or idea. They also provide a guide on improving my knowledge of any topic or idea I am unfamiliar with.

Ryan Abel

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