Jason Porritt on Atomic Spin

Extracurricular Activities

Hackable Cars, for Enthusiasts… and Others

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

Ruby Motion

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

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

Ember.js

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.

Developer Tools

Taking good notes is important, and Mou (a Mac OS app that makes it easy to write Markdown) makes a great note-taking tool.

UX/Design Tools

Scott McCloud's book, "Understanding Comics", is an inspiration for building impactful storyboards as part of our software creation process.

Ruby Motion

Sometimes an example is the best documentation. This is an example of how to use Nimbus to help manage a UITableView and its cells.

Development Practices

Creating the right acceptance tests starts with choosing the right tools and asking the right questions.

Culture

Don't forget why you work how you work — spend time with people who have a fresh perspective.

Growing as Makers

Every software developer needs a basic understanding of computer science in four essential areas.

Evolving the Industry

Do you write software? Then Don Knuth would consider you an artist. And so would I.

Development Practices

Software can be biased in many ways. Friedman and Nissenbaum do an excellent job of describing a framework for classifying unfair bias.