Jason Porritt on Atomic Spin

More Robust Browser-Side Networking

How much better could your web application behave in the face of an unreliable network connection? Let's explore some simple improvements.

Project & Team Management

The Many Uses of Pairing: Replacing Post-Work Review with Collaboration

Pair programming taught us to prefer collaboration over review. We've found a lot of value applying this thinking to other tasks involving review.

Growing as Makers, The Software Life

Book Review – Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change

If you care about influencing change to one degree or another, reading "Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change" makes a lot of sense.

Planning Your Project

Utilize Your Software Consultants to Frame Product Management Decisions

At every stage in a project, from sale to delivery, we can provide important information to help frame product management decisions.

Development Practices

Your Database is Underutilized

Use your relational database management system to its full potential to process data, describe domain logic, and take action when data changes.

Development Practices

Smart Strategies for the End of a Project

We talk a lot about what we do before and during projects, but what about when that's all done? What's important when a project is over?

Development Practices

7 Tips for a Joyful Return to a Software Project

Jumping back into an older dev. project can be easy, or it can be a pain in the neck. Here's how to make it a joy.

Technical Practices

How Do We Know Our Software Works?

People are flawed and make mistakes on a regular basis. So how do we have any confidence that our software works?!

UX/Design Practices

Technology: More than a Constraint for User-Centered Design

Software design that ignores the technical landscape is bound to be wrecked by constraints or miss key opportunities to leverage tools and paradigms.

Business Practices

Avoiding Bias in our Job Interviews with Scripts & Personas

A biased interview process can keep you from hiring awesome team members. We're taking action to cut the potential for harmful bias from our interviews.

UX/Design Practices

Information Architecture: A Whole-Team Discipline

IA affects the software, the business model behind it, and the way people interact on all sides of a product. We can't afford to leave team members out.

Personal Optimization

How to Ace the Non-Technical Part of an Atomic Interview

Technical skills are important, but fitting with our team-focused consulting culture matters a lot at Atomic Object.

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