Atomic Spin

Personal Optimization • Aug 25, 2016

Quenching the Fire of Clients From Hell

What happened? How did our software project end up in hell? And more importantly: How can we get back on track?

Developer Tools • Aug 24, 2016

How to Debug Stored Procedures in Visual Studio in 3 Steps

Visual Studio provides many tools to help with development. Use these three steps to access the debugging tool for stored procedures within Visual Studio.

DevOps & System Admin. • Aug 23, 2016

Conference Room A/V Build-Out

Our new conference room A/V setup gives us important capabilities required for many of our meetings, especially teleconferences.

Atomic Accelerator • Aug 22, 2016

Battle Othello

Development Practices • Aug 22, 2016

The Tradeoff of Multiple Repositories

There are real costs involved in the decision to have a development team work in multiple repositories—I believe these costs are always overlooked.

Development Practices • Aug 20, 2016

Be Explicit with Your API’s Data

When designing APIs, why you should be explicit about state when crossing system boundaries.

Android Development • Aug 19, 2016

Getting Android ListView Right the First Time

Three common mistakes and how to prevent each of them when subclassing BaseApapter to provide content for Android ListViews.

Culture • Aug 18, 2016

Respecting the Value of Face Time

While modern communication options are useful, there's still value in face-to-face communication. How do you know when an in-person meeting is necessary?

Ruby on Rails • Aug 17, 2016

Testing Data Migrations in Rails

When approaching rails data migrations, there are two complications: future-proofing and testing. This post walks through an example migration.

Developer Tools • Aug 16, 2016

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.

Development Practices • Aug 15, 2016

Capability Feature Flags for Backward Compatibility

Use "feature flags" to improve code that needs to maintain backward compatibility with an external API, device, OS, or hardware version.

Development Practices • Aug 13, 2016

Four Tips To Keep Refactoring Efficient

Four tips for efficient refactoring: have good test coverage, refactor on a main branch, keep tests green often, remember your purpose.