Joe Chrysler on Atomic Spin

Three Pitfalls of React Native Development (and How to Leap Over Them)

Three pitfalls my team fell into while building our app, three stories of how we pulled ourselves out, and three ways that you can avoid falling in too.

Development Practices

Five Build Commands to Make Project Onboarding Faster & Easier

New team members should be able to jump in and run your project in 10 minutes, flat. So the next time you start a new project, write your Makefile first.

Planning Your Project

Four Reasons Your Mobile App Needs a Web Back End

A web backend is essential to power many of the experiences that customers expect from a top-tier mobile application – syncing, support, etc.

Personal Optimization

You’re Not the Only Imposter at the Office: 6 Strategies for Dealing with Imposter Syndrome at Work

You're not alone! Here are some coping techniques we've discovered to deal with the more-common-than-you-think problem of Imposter Syndrome at work.

Development Practices

Keep Your Temporary Hacks Temporary with a Shame.cs

Having a space to track temporary changes and known-crufty code helps me avoiding flitting between cleanup tasks, while reminding me to clean up my mess.

Project & Team Management

Choosing the Right Release Cadence for Your Project

Release too often, and you risk coming off as frantic and harried. Release too seldom, and you risk appearing inflexible, and unresponsive.

Developer Tools

Code Like a Craftsman with a Vim Clutch

Configuring a foot pedal is incredibly easy. Mine came with a simple driver app that took no more than a couple of minutes to install and configure.

Development Practices

Three Tips to Make Your Next Dependency Upgrade Easier

Over time, even well-managed web apps can see their dependencies fall behind. The JavaScript community moves fast, and if you don't stay on top of it, you can wind up with a packag

Personal Optimization

For Better Meetings, Use Better Tools

If led with care, meetings can be a fantastic vehicle for building the emotional connections and shared understanding crucial to a successful project.

Mobile Apps

Supercharging Xamarin Studio’s Play Button with Custom Build Steps

Here’s how we leverage custom build steps in Xamarin Studio to make our workdays easier... No more "relying on an error-prone hominid."

Developer Tools

Life After Text Mode: How I Learned to Stop Typing So Much and Love the GUI Again

Developers get caught up in the productive asceticism of the command line and forget about the world outside—3 apps made me rethink my Text Mode lifestyle.

Mobile Apps

Super Fast Numeric Input with HTML Ranges – Part 3

Part three of a three-part series that covers crafting a custom decimal picker to improve the experience of entering decimal numbers into a mobile web app.

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