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Ember.js • Dec 06, 2016

Using Power Select to Create Interactive, User-Editable Drop-Downs

Ember Power Select is an easy-to-use, flexible and powerful component that I recently used to tackle some challenging front-end feature designs.

Development Practices • Dec 05, 2016

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.

Project & Team Management • Dec 04, 2016

Why Team-Focused Backlogs Are More Effective

Developers talented at switching between tech environments and quickly ramping into new ones allows us to realize the benefits of team-focused backlogs.

Exploratory Testing • Dec 03, 2016

More Ways to Test – A Tester’s Consistency Checklist

One of the tests I do is a consistency test, which is difficult to automate, and testing for it can unearth different sorts of problems.

Project & Team Management • Dec 02, 2016

How Rotating Your Team Members Improves Your Product and Developers

Semi-regular changes to a team can strengthen the software product and increase the quality of developers within your organization.

Development Practices • Dec 01, 2016

Escaping the South Indian Monkey Trap

In The Passionate Programmer, Chad Fowler got me thinking about "value rigidity" in software dev through his exploration of the South Indian Monkey Trap.

TypeScript • Nov 30, 2016

Immutable.js Records in TypeScript

Use these key steps to create strongly typed immutable records in TypeScript with Immutable.js.

Ember.js • Nov 29, 2016

Four Noble Truths of Ember.js

Interested in learning Ember.js? Based on my experience, I've put together four simple steps to help beginners start out right.

Android Development • Nov 28, 2016

Sending Data Between Activities in Android

In this post, I’ll discuss a few ways to pass data between Activities using Intents, including passing primitives, Strings, and object types.

Growing as Makers • Nov 26, 2016

Tips for Making Persuasive Arguments

Forming persuasive arguments is important but not easy. The 7 Triggers to Yes is a new favorite book of mine, and it directly addresses this topic.

Development Practices • Nov 25, 2016

Type Systems Aren’t Magic

I’ve been learning Haskell to see what it’s like to have a good type system, and what I’ve seen so far is that types aren’t magic or a panacea.

News & Events • Nov 24, 2016

Atomic Games 2016 – Connect Four Challenge!

We really enjoyed hosting the Atomic Games 2016 Connect Four Challenge. This post discusses the Games and includes a number of videos from the event.