Drew Colthorp on Atomic Spin

Ember.js

Effortless Abstraction with Ember.js

It's amazing how easy it is to build sophisticated apps with Ember. This post explores one feature of Ember that enables this: pervasive data binding.

Project & Team Management

Using Storytelling to Convey Complicated Ideas

Storytelling is a great way to communicate complicated ideas in a natural way.

.NET / WPF

Faking Named Parameters in .NET when Using ODBC

Here's some handy code for emulating named parameters when using ODBC drivers in C# or .net.

Development Practices

A Case for Learning J

Observations on dynamism, compositionality, regularity, and concision in J.

Growing as Makers

What Makes a Great Audience

As an audience participates, they invest in and engage with the talk, adding energy, nuance, and richness that makes the whole experience better for everyone.

Functional Programming

Some Notes on Clojure Performance

Laziness is amazing. As Debasish Ghosh explained on his blog, laziness lets you effectively reify and compose loops.

Functional Programming

Higher-order Contextual Functions in Clojure

Higher-order Clojure functions defining a context (like swap! and send-off) follow a common pattern. See how to apply the pattern to your own functions and macros and how it can be

Functional Programming

Clojure Desktop Applications with Swing

Useful libraries and tips for getting started with Clojure desktop application development.

Web Apps

Optimize Page Speed with jQuery Waypoints

jQuery Waypoints provide a great way to optimize page speed by deferring initialization of complex components until they become visible to the user.

Project & Team Management

Poly-skilled Teams Deliver Products

Poly-skilled co-located teams of generalists are more likely to deliver products on time and efficiently than separate groups of specialized people.

Developer Tools

Atomic Vim

Atomic Vim provides all the benefits of vim with some of the best features of TextMate by assembling and customizing some of the best vim plugins.

.NET / WPF

MySQL in .NET: Native or ODBC

Connector/NET, written in C#, has some upsides over the ODBC driver. Unfortunately, we ran into a number of problems with it and switched to the ODBC driver.

Drew Colthorp

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