Patrick Bacon on Atomic Spin

Run a Local Rails Script on Heroku

One-liners can be piped into the heroku run console command—what about longer scripts you write locally and want to execute in a remote Heroku environment?

Developer Tools

Monitoring Stdout with a Timeout

An example of using expect's timeout feature to wait for specific stdout output coming from a background process.

Web Apps

Chaining HTTP Requests in Elm – An Example

To help the next developer who wants to chain HTTP requests together in Elm, I'm going to walk through an example in this post.

Development Practices

Capability Feature Flags for Backward Compatibility

Use "feature flags" to improve code that needs to maintain backward compatibility with an external API, device, OS, or hardware version.

Development Practices

New to Pairing? Speak Up!

When you're new to a project and new to pair programming, you might think it's best to stay quiet and learn as much as you can. You're wrong—speak up!

DevOps & System Admin.

How (and Why) to Log Your Entire Bash History

An easy bit of Bash configuration that will log your bash history to dated log files so you can refer back to them at any point in the future.

Android Development

Espresso – Testing RecyclerViews at Specific Positions

Tips and tools for writing comprehensive Espresso tests for an interface that uses a RecyclerView on Android.

Android Development

Automating an Android Instrumentation Test Run

An example of how to script everything needed to run Android Instrumentation Tests from the command line.

Objective-C

ReactiveCocoa – Cleaning Up after replay, replayLast, and replayLazily

Using replay, replayLast, and replayLazily operators on an infinite signal leads to memory leaks if you're not careful. Be sure to clean up after yourself.

Objective-C

Objective-C Value Objects: Code Generation

A Ruby DSL and script for the code generation of Objective-C immutable Value Objects that use the Mantle library.

Objective-C

Simplifying Objective-C Value Objects with Mantle and the Builder Pattern

Creating easy-to-use Objective-C Value Objects using the Builder Pattern with immutable Mantle models.

Development Practices

What I Learned in 10 Years at a Software Consultancy

What is it like to work at a software consultancy like Atomic Object? I look back at my first 10 years at AO and discuss why it's such a good fit for me.

Patrick Bacon

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