Lydia Cupery on Atomic Spin

Git Merging vs. Rebasing: The Beginner’s Guide

Git merging preserves git history and does a 3-way merge between the branches being merged and the last common branch. Git rebasing replays new commits on top of master.

Web Apps

Using Angular Content Projection to Draw Smiley Faces

How to customize a component using angular content projection & multi-content projection. Respond to user events from the custom component with a host listener.

Web Apps

Reactive Programming: A Timed Popup Component with RxJS

How to use use RXJS's operators (debounce, merge, map, switchmap) in Angular to display a popup notification timed for a specified interval.

Web Apps

IdentityServer Authentication with an MVC Client & Unauthorized Loops

We set up IdentityServer authentication with an MVC client. When a user was authenticated but not authorized, we overrode the default OpenIdConnect middleware and showed the user a

Atomic Accelerator

GOTO Chicago 2018 – Complexity, Boring Languages, and Not Throwing Null

The conference didn't have a specific focus, but several themes came up repeatedly, including computer science being complex, big data and its capabilities and biases, and handling

Evolving the Industry

Resources for Middle School Girls to Learn Programming

Want to encourage a middle school girl to try programming? Here's a list of free or low-cost online courses, programs offered through schools, and local West Michigan resources.

.NET / WPF

Reactive Extensions, ReactiveUI, and Whistling Tea Kettles

How reactive programming differs from interactive programming where an application has to poll for data. Plus how to use ReactiveUI to create a sample WPF app.

Growing as Makers

How Learning Software Is Like Learning Chinese

Programming, like language acquisition, takes time and effort. You can learn better by looking at context, setting goals, and working with a team.

Mobile Apps

Drawing Shapes with SkiaSharp

My goal was to draw an arc that would display each segment in our list with the correct length and a color corresponding to its category.

Mobile Apps

Exporting a Java Library to a Xamarin.Forms Android Project

To incorporate the platform-specific SDK methods, we had to export Java code (for Android) as libraries and then import them into a Xamarin.Forms project.

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