DevOps & System Admin. • Oct 01, 2015 Configuring Per-Locale Font Selection with FontConfig During a recent project, one of my primary goals was to enable good localization across the globe.
Developer Tools • Sep 30, 2015 Sublime Text Plugins I’d Hate to Work Without One of the things that sets Sublime Text apart from the competition is its rich plugin ecosystem. Here are 6 of the plugins that I'd hate to work without.
Business Practices • Sep 29, 2015 How Atomic Evaluates New Project Opportunities The ideal project will fall in the sweet spot between business health, employee satisfaction, and customer success.
Ruby • Sep 28, 2015 Windows Socket Functions in Ruby Extensions On using Windows socket functions (such as WSARecv, and WSASend) inside Ruby extensions on Windows.
Exploratory Testing • Sep 27, 2015 More Ways to Test – Is it a Good Story? In software testing, you could focus on the layout. But you should also look at the other qualities, the aspects that hold the "story" together.
Ruby on Rails • Sep 26, 2015 Diving into Existing Rails Apps Trying to wade into an existing project is frustrating. When working with Rails, I've found a few avenues of attack that help me jump in.
Developer Tools • Sep 25, 2015 Comparing Node.js Debug Options Comparing the built-in Node debugger, Node Inspector, and IDEs for debugging Node.js apps.
Objective-C, Swift • Sep 24, 2015 Working with Objective-C and Swift on the Same Project Converting classes from Swift to Objective-C, and Objective-C to Swift.
Managing Your Team • Sep 23, 2015 7 Guidelines for Constructive Design Feedback The success of your project requires something that only you possess: expertise in your own domain. Put that expertise to good use with good feedback.
Developer Tools • Sep 22, 2015 Configuring a Laptop with Ansible, Part Two An example of how I use Ansible config management to save and reproduce the environment on my laptop.
Developer Tools • Sep 21, 2015 Configuring a Laptop with Ansible, Part One How to use the Ansible configuration management systems to easily reproduce a heavily customized environment on other laptops down the line.
Development Practices • Sep 20, 2015 Swiss Cheese and Pair Programming How Swiss cheese makes a useful metaphor to explain how pair programming creates better software.
