Jordan Schaenzle on Atomic Spin

An Immutable Asynchronous State Holder in C#

In several projects that I have worked on over the last few years, we instituted a StateHolder class that eases the burden of managing state.

Web Apps

Elegant Form Validation Using React – Demo

One of my goals was Composability. I wanted to be able to define a collection of form requirements that could be applied to form fields as needed.

Choosing Your Team

Creating Strong, Successful IoT Products with Holistic Development

An IoT product needs all of its different pieces to work together seamlessly. The closer the team members, the better the end product.

Embedded Systems

A Simple Message Queue for C

c-message-queue is a simple queue that can easily be pulled into nearly any embedded application. The implementation is defined in a single header file and consists of just two mac

Extracurricular Activities

Building an Alexa Skill as a Web Service on Heroku

After hearing buzz about Amazon's Alexa, I set out to make an Alexa Skill that is implemented as a web service hosted on Heroku.

Development Practices

Five Crucial Steps For Writing a Mobile App For a Bluetooth Device

Writing an app that communicates with a Bluetooth device can be very challenging. I've picked up a few best practices that ease this process.

Web Apps

Elegant Form Validation Using React

My new approach to form validation of React components only requires a few lines of code, and the rules are specified in a declarative way.

Developer Tools

IoT Made Easy by Particle

Particle is revolutionizing the world of IoT by building infrastructure that supports easily taking a product from prototype to mass production.

Software Science

PID – Helping Computers Behave More Like Humans

An intro to the PID control algorithm, with a breakdown of its three components (Proportional, Integral, and Derivative) and their different purposes.

Development Practices

A Design-First Approach to Mobile App Architecture for iOS

Design-first means thinking through how you want to handle visual design at the very beginning of the mobile app development process.

iOS / OS X

Detecting Drag-Into Touch Events in UIViews

I had several UIViews arranged on a screen and wanted to detect when the user drags a finger into one of the views. Seems straightforward, right?

Workplace

Improving on the Open Office Environment with Slack

At first, we used Slack channels primarily for team-based discussion. But then people started making channels devoted to a particular technology or topic.

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