Patrick Pale on Atomic Spin

4 Practices That Helped Our Small Development Team Grow

Over the last year, my development team has doubled. These four practices can help any small development team grow into a larger one.

How I Use xUnit’s Theory to Test Switch Statement Expressions

Recently for a .NET Core project, I took advantage of xUnit’s Theory annotation so that I could avoid writing a Fact for every case in the switch statement.

Growing as Makers

Growing as a Developer by Teaching to Learn

It’s common knowledge that teaching something is a great way to reinforce your own understanding of it. That definitely has held true for me.

Growing as Makers

Using Professional Projects to Pursue Personal Goals

Communicating personal goals to my team allows me to strategize with them about how they can support me and how work on my goals can benefit the project.

Angular

Beginner Tips for Getting Started with Angular

Angular is a big framework and can be intimidating to jump into. These tips are for somebody just starting out with Angular projects.

Extracurricular Activities

Benefit of a Daily Dose of Wordle: Sharpen Your Problem-Solving Skills

Simply solving a small problem like Wordle is enough to kick off my day and motivate me to solve more problems throughout it.

Personal Optimization

Suffering from Lack of Focus? 3 Tips to Get You Back on Track

A new environment or working at a different time than usual can be the kind of change that will address your lack of focus.

Effective communication

3 Practices for Improving Remote Team Communication

A combination of these three practices has reduced a feeling of isolation and greatly improved my personal experience with remote team communication.

Growing as Makers

An Overview of 3 Years of Projects as a Software Consultant

I hope this post is an interesting window into life as a software consultant for anyone without much idea about how that works.

Project & Team Management

5 Tips for Success When Joining a New Team

These tips boil down to being proactive when joining a new software team. The more you are, the faster you can get acclimated to the team and project

Personal Optimization

Get Organized in Google Chrome for a Better Browsing Experience

Taking advantage of small tweaks in Google Chrome improves my web browsing experience, day-to-day and long term as I move from project to project.

Developer Tools

Automating Getting an Authentication Token with Postman

Postman authentication tokens expire after fifteen minutes — a pain for longer sessions. So here's our method for automating token requests.

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