Patrick Pale on Atomic Spin

An Overview of 8 Years of Projects as a Software Consultant

It’s been fun to reflect on my 8 years here at Atomic and as a professional. What’s kept me around, though, isn’t the work but the people.

Artificial Intelligence

Here’s How I’m “Friction-Maxxing” in a Technical Role

As a developer using AI tools, my own friction-maxxing can’t involve cutting AI out of my work entirely. But if I can do things myself, I do.

React Native

How to AirDrop a SQLite Database from Your React Native App

My development team came up with a solution that takes advantage of the iOS and Android share sheet to let us export our SQLite database.

Project Stories

How We Built a Bluetooth Connected Mobile App in 4 Weeks

Here's how we prototyped a cross-platform app for tablets meant to find and connect to a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) device in 4 weeks!

Culture

Mentorship: It’s Mostly About Being a Friend to Your Coworker

A recently-formed mentor-mentee relationship made me realize that so much of what made it successful was that I was a friend to my coworker.

Mock a DbContextFactory for Repository Unit Tests in .Net Core

In a .Net Core project, if you’re using the DbContextFactory class to create DbContext instances, you may run into problems.

Project & Team Management

A Quick Guide for Onboarding New Developers

Joining a team in the middle of a project can feel awkward, so I consider these things when faced with onboarding a new developer.

Project & Team Management

3 Tips for Developers Writing Backlog Items

It's one thing to execute backlog items and another to be the author of the backlog. Here are a few tips to write better backlog stories.

Personal Optimization

Set Up a Rule to Forward Meeting Invitations from Outlook

Recently I took advantage of a rules feature in Outlook. Here are the steps to forward meeting invitations from Outlook into Gmail.

Growing as Makers

Reflections on 5 Years as a Software Consultant

In the last two years, I’ve been part of a much larger team, on a single project, operating as a tech lead.

Project & Team Management

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.

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