Tony Baker at Atomic Spin

3 Tips for Being a Helpful, Gracious Code Reviewer

Code reviews are boring, yet they're extremely valuable. Here are three ways to improve your code review communication and your own development skills.

Project & Team Management

7 Ways to Keep Your Big Project Agile

As team size increases, we can stay agile by refactoring our project management practices.

Development Practices

4 Tips for Improving Test Quality

These 4 test driven development tips will make your tests easier to write and easier to maintain.

UX/Design Tools

Novel Image Compression Using Bit Plane Slicing

An implementation of a novel image compression algorithm using bit plane slicing with python's SimpleCV library.

Web Apps

DRY Your Ember Code with Ember.computed Macros

One of my favorite ways for drying up ember code is to use the macros in the Ember.computed module, which allow for equality, comparisons, and checking for empty lists, just to nam

Extracurricular Activities

Ham Radio Is Not Dead

An introduction to ham radio and how you can get into this fascinating and limitless hobby.

DevOps & System Admin.

Taming Your Cluster with ZooKeeper

Clusters and distributed systems can be tamed with Zookeeper, which guarantees sequential, atomic, reliable, and consistent data across your cluster.

Software Science

Basic Machine Learning with KNN and Racket

K Nearest Neighbor (KNN) is a lazy, supervised machine learning algorithm. In this post we step through a KNN implementation in Racket, a dialect of Scheme.

Project & Team Management

Parallel Thinking with Six Thinking Hats

Conflicting personalities and view points can often make meetings unproductive. Parallel thinking and the six thinking hats can quickly fix this.

Software Science

Improve Your Software Architecture with Ports and Adapters

Ports and adapters prevent business logic from becoming coupled to other dependencies. They create little classes with well-defined pieces of functionality.

Personal Optimization

Protecting Your Apple Power Adapter with sugru

Afraid of snapping the wire going into your apple power adapter? Check out this simple and quick hack for reinforcing the strain relief.

Development Practices

Simply Writing Tests Is Not Test Driven Development

Test-driven development is ensuring that your software is functioning and making sure the software’s internals are well designed, reusable and decoupled.

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