Zach Kurmas on Atomic Spin

The Deep End of the Pool

It is absurd to expect students who don’t have any prior programming experience to be well prepared to study Computer Science after a single 15-week course (i.e., CS 1).

Ruby

Unexpected Ruby Cache Behavior

DevOps & System Admin.

Complementing Time Machine with rsync

I usersync and cron to back up my Documents and Library directories hourly. These directories contain all of my files whose changes would be difficult or impossible to re-create by

Ruby on Rails

Using IntelliJ for Rails Development

I like using IntelliJ, but it was rather difficult to figure out what features were available and how to get them working.

Mobile Apps

The Cost of Building BlackBerry Apps

In most cases, a BlackBerry app delivers less value per development dollar than a similarly featured iPhone or Android app.

Mobile Apps

Porting Android Code to BlackBerry

After completing an Android application, we were asked to port it to BlackBerry.

Android Development

More Additions to kSOAP2

kSOAP2 doesn’t attach attributes to primitives. To parse these SOAP responses, we added attributes to the SoapPrimitive class.

Zack Kurmas

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