Mike Swieton on Atomic Spin

You’re Ready to Deploy – You Must Be Done, Right?

Your app might do everything your customers asked, but does it do everything you need? Here're tools for monitoring and diagnosing issues after it ships.

Project & Team Management

The Tao of Agile

Agile is not about iterative development. It's not about user research or TDD. Agility won't be found in open workspaces - or in cubicles. Agile is an attitude.

Project & Team Management

Agile at Scale – The Small Scale

At first glance, it may seem like projects that have a team of one (or less) don't warrant or benefit from Agile techniques. However, it is still valuable.

Android Development

Building Android Application Bundles (APKs) by Hand

The platform documentation for building an Android APK is sparse. Here's a complete example of how to build an APK for yourself if you should require it.

Platforms & Languages

Never Say “Click” – Good Cucumber System Testing Practices

A good test will fail because the feature is broken. A bad test will fail for other reasons.

Web Apps

Automated Tests for HTML5 Offline Web Applications with Capybara and Selenium

Testing web apps that make use of the new HTML5 features can be frustrating. With some work, we can use Capybara to test them through the browser easily.

DevOps & System Admin.

Unit Tests for Everything Else: nginx, Apache, & Virtual Hosts

Software Science

"All input is evil until proven otherwise. That’s rule number one."

The simplicity of this approach means that the instruction set doesn’t have to change and the code stays binary-compatible.

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