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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.

Ember.js

Ember.js Validations the Easy (and Fast!) Way

How to use the blazingly-fast Ember-CP-Validations validations library for Ember.js.

Culture

What the Heck Is an “Atomic Object”?

Atomic Object has an interesting name, but not everyone knows that its rooted in two key computer science concepts.

Web Apps

Safely Binding Unescaped Content in Web Applications

Understanding cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability, when binding unescaped content is safe, and how to bypass warnings in Angular and Ember.

Personal Optimization

Get Things Done with GTD

A summary of the Getting Things Done (GTD) approach to reducing stress and improving productivity, and some tools for implementation.

Ember.js

10 Steps for Ramping into Ember.js Quickly

Aspiring Ember developers can follow the 10 steps I lay out in this blog post to quickly get familiar with Ember.js.

Developer Tools

CodeRunner: A Generalist’s Swiss Army Knife

While all of its features, taken separately, are available for free, CodeRunner makes it painless to sit down, choose your language, and just start coding.

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