Jason Porritt on Atomic Spin

Visualizing Project Scale, Risk, and Options

We discuss scale, risk, and alternatives continually throughout a project. Having a visual representation of the conversation points can be very useful.

Personal Optimization

Worry; Don’t Stress

Don't let worry turn into stress and bog you down. Here are 7 ways to keep your worries and concerns a positive force in your life.

Developer Tools

A Month with the Atom Editor

GitHub's Atom editor is solid with few drawbacks. It's my new favorite editor, and I'm optimistic that this is more than a fling.

Project & Team Management

Evolution of a Burn Chart

Helping the client better understand burn chart data with intermediate milestones and a stacked bar chart.

Business Practices

Words Worth Working For

There are a lot of reasons to work hard. Let's add "nice words" to the list.

Personal Optimization

Ready to Disconnect on Vacation? 6 To-Dos Before Leaving the Office

Disconnecting from work can be difficult, even on vacation. Here are a few things I do before leaving to make it easier.

Ember.js

Client-side File Processing in Ember.js

Following is an example illustrating how we handled the file upload in our Ember.js app, and how we could make this work with a few other file formats.

Ember.js

Practical Abstraction in Ember.js

Ember provides powerful abstractions to amplify your expressive abilities. Computed properties, modules, and beyond. Here are a few examples.

Extracurricular Activities

Hackable Cars, for Enthusiasts… and Others

Our cars are hackable, and the possibilities range from merely inconvenient to downright dangerous.

Ruby Motion

Unit Testing with ReactiveCocoa and RubyMotion

ReactiveCocoa's paradigm has a big impact on how we test, what we test, and what tools we choose to build our tests. Here's how we're approaching it.

Ruby Motion

ReactiveCocoa & RubyMotion: The Setup

Prepare to use ReactiveCocoa to achieve reduced state and complexity in your RubyMotion iOS development project.

Ember.js

Dynamic Binding in Ember.js Using Observers

Creating bindings in Ember.js at run-time can be challenging. A pair of observers, instead of a direct binding, alleviated some of our problems.

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