Matt Fletcher on Atomic Spin

Software Practitioners Shouldn’t Overlook the Design Mgmt. Institute

The Design Management Institute holds a wealth of knowledge about good design — knowledge that is directly applicable to software product development.

Extracurricular Activities

Script Away your Annoyances: Creating Word Groupings from Anki’s Database

Manually clicking through the Anki browser to pick out words reviewed today is annoying. Let's create a script to do this for us automatically.

Growing as Makers

Review: ‘Design & Thinking’ Movie and Discussion

My short review of the Design + Thinking movie and a follow-up panel conversation.

Extracurricular Activities

Counting Cards in Anki’s Database with ActiveRecord & Ruby

How I used a small Ruby script with ActiveRecord to learn more about my Anki database.

Developer Tools

Script Away your Annoyances: Employing Automator in a Pinch

OS X's Automator is a handy tool for quickly scripting annoying workflows.

Developer Tools

Obliterate Unsavory git Objects with the BFG

Demonic git blobs got you down? Time to bring out the BFG.

.NET / WPF

HIDSharp: USB HID Communications in .NET

HIDSharp is a great little library for USB HID communication in .NET.

Ruby

YAML Configuration in Ruby with Settingslogic

Settingslogic is an awesome RubyGem for straightforward access to Ruby application configuration.

Development Practices

Script Away Your Annoyances – Testing a Data Import Process

Let's create a script to automate the testing of a slow, ugly, and brittle data import process into Fedora Commons.

Ruby

Easier Debugging with capybara-screenshot

How I've used capybara-screenshot to work through some perplexing test failures.

UX/Design Practices

What Are the Categories of Design?

A brief review of the categories of design, courtesy of Bettina von Stamm's book "Managing Innovation, Design, and Creativity."

Ruby

How to Keep Font Awesome from Crashing capybara-webkit

If you're developing a Ruby on Rails application on OS X, you'll need this workaround to keep Font Awesome from crashing capybara-webkit.

Matt Fletcher

Keep up with our latest posts.