Technical Practices

Why Vagrant? – Preventing Deployment Issues from Day One with a Virtual Machine

One of the traditional problems in software development is the delivery of a finished project. Atomic Object writes custom software, but we ultimately need to deliver it to our customers, which usually implies deploying it to an existing infrastructure environment, or handing it off to an operations team. Unfortunately, this hand-off process often introduces a […]

Thinking Abstractly: Why Programmers Don’t Write Binary Code

Marcel Duchamp – Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 When you imagine a computer programmer at work, what comes to mind? Science fiction movies like The Matrix might give you the impression that programmers read and write endless streams of 1s and 0s, communicating with the computer in a digital dialect unintelligible to most humans. […]

Testing Terminology

Working with some new customers this year has given me fresh perspective on how confusing the terminology of the testing world can be. I think terms and definitions matters a lot, and not just because I’m a recovering academic. Several times recently I’ve found myself in a conversation taking a position in apparent opposition to […]