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Managing Your Team • Jan 12, 2018

Want to Increase Your Custom Software ROI? Trust Your Team

If you don't trust your team enough to share the project's big picture goals, you'll never get their best work. True collaboration is built on trust.

.NET / WPF • Jan 11, 2018

Pattern Matching in C# with Switch Statements

C# 7.0 introduced pattern matching support in its switch statements. Here are some examples of how you can now switch on object types, etc. in C#.

Project & Team Management • Jan 10, 2018

Three Ways To Empower Your Team as a Senior Developer

It's easy for senior devs to become the entire voice of their team and make teammates feel unappreciated. Here are 3 ways I've found to counteract that.

Exploratory Testing • Jan 10, 2018

Four Web Accessibility Testing Tools/Practices to Start Using Today

If you're serious about making your site accessible, start designing for accessibility and testing from the start. At the end of a project is too late.

Web Apps • Jan 09, 2018

Spreading the Spread and Rest Love

JavaScript's spread syntax has been an extremely useful tool while I've been working extensively with immutable data structures for a React/Redux project.

News & Events • Jan 08, 2018

2017 Atomic Fun Facts

A look back at what went on at Atomic Object's in 2017.

Mobile Apps • Jan 08, 2018

Adding an EmbedIO Embedded Web Server to Your Xamarin Forms App

To fake out our API for testing purposes, we used EmbedIO to create a local server within the actual Xamarin Forms app to make API calls to.

Personal Optimization • Jan 07, 2018

Six Questions to Ask at Your First Job Interview

Always take the opportunity to ask your interviewer about the company you're considering. How long do employees stay? How will they help you grow?

Web Apps • Jan 06, 2018

Simple, Rails-Like Database Migrations Using Knex on AWS Lambda

How to connect AWS Lambda to an RDS database and deploy new code along with a database migration. We solved the problem with Knex.js.

Extracurricular Activities • Jan 05, 2018

Open Sourcing “Space Battle 2” – an RTS Game Ready for Your AI Player

At this year's Atomic Games, we built AIs to play our in-house RTS "Space Battle 2: Resource Collectors." We had so much fun, we decided to open source it.

TypeScript • Jan 04, 2018

Creating Your Own TSLint Rules

In this post, I'll walk you through the steps I took to create my first tslint rule. I found it incredibly easy, and you will too.

Business Practices • Jan 03, 2018

Carl Erickson on Urban Offices, Being a Good Neighbor, and the Value of Proximity

I sat down with Carl Erickson to talk about why Atomic keeps choosing Wealthy Street, and what Atomic and the neighborhood have to offer each other.