John Fisher on Atomic Spin

Deciding Between Headless and Traditional Content Management Systems

An overview of the benefits and best use cases for headless vs. traditional CMSs, when developing apps with dynamic content.

Developer Tools

Effective Pivotal Tracker: Tips and Tricks

Pivotal Tracker is more opinionated about the software development process than some other tools on the market, but with that "limitation" comes benefits.

Project & Team Management

Get Better Software Estimates by Combining Different Perspectives

There's no silver bullet approach for estimation. But if we attack the problem from several different angles, we'll arrive at a range we can trust.

Swift

Four Tips and Tools for iOS Testing in Swift

A few of the iOS testing tools I’ve used to make life a little easier and code more correct when developing apps in Swift.

iOS / OS X

UIStackView Tricks: Proportional Custom UIViews with ‘Fill Proportionally’

How to use the Fill Proportionally option with any UIStackView custom view while also having fine-grained control over the proportions themselves.

Development Practices

Accept It: Software is Wabi-sabi

Accepting that software products are never perfect, permanent, or finished gives me a sense of peace and helps me focus on how to make the situation better.

Culture

Don’t Let Bad Feelings Fester – Bring Your FUDA into the Light

FUDA (fear, uncertainty, doubt, anger) can quickly turn an office into a toxic work environment. So Atoms are expected to name and address it, every time.

Developer Tools

Sharing Web Data with iOS Using WKWebView

How we found an easy way to pass a user's API credentials from a web page to our iOS application to support single-account, multiple-login using WKWebView.

iOS / OS X

Using CircleCI to Test and Deploy an iOS App

Review of how to use CircleCI with your iOS application. Includes explanation of how to handle bumps in the road on the path to CI and easy deployments.

Project & Team Management

Successful Sprint Retrospectives: Tips and Tools

Sprint retrospectives help software teams reflect on what happened during a sprint to build team chemistry, share knowledge, and have fun.

iOS / OS X

Creating Graphics Code in iOS & OS X with PaintCode

PaintCode generates dynamic shapes in Swift or Objective-C code. It cuts the time to prototype the drawing code by an order of magnitude.

Ember.js

5 Ember.js Addons You Should Start Using

A few great addons you should include in your next Ember.js project.

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