News & Events • Jan 17, 2016 Atomic Welcomes 5 New Developers in Ann Arbor & Grand Rapids In the past few months, five new Atoms have joined our molecule – two in Ann Arbor and three in Grand Rapids.
Personal Optimization • Jan 16, 2016 Frustrations with iOS Workflow iOS's Workflow tool is both amazingly powerful and amazingly frustrating. I’m still not sure how it can automate the day-to-day things I grapple with.
Development Practices • Jan 15, 2016 Why System Testing Matters – And Why it’s Getting Easier Any large application is at significant, long-term risk without system testing to make sure all its pieces are working together properly.
iOS / OS X • Jan 14, 2016 NSDateFormatter – Proceed with Caution! My discovery: to avoid bugs, you want to use lowercase "y" for the year component of your date format string in NSDateFormatter.
Personal Optimization • Jan 13, 2016 How I Conquered My Fear of Meetings A meeting isn't a test of my credibility or intelligence, it's a collaboration. With a little preparation and self-awareness, I can relax and contribute.
Web Apps • Jan 12, 2016 Why You Should Use JSX and ReactJS Things that are easier with JSX and ReactJS: using formatting libraries, rendering lists of data, and keeping markup organized and DRY.
Developer Tools • Jan 11, 2016 Tools for Testing Command Line Interfaces I’ve converted my manual test plans into a suite of automated system tests – adding Bats, Expect, and other CLI testing tools to my toolbox.
Personal Optimization • Jan 10, 2016 A Tester’s Christmas Carol Reflecting back on my testing work made me think of Scrooge and his ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come from A Christmas Carol.
Culture • Jan 09, 2016 Phil Kirkham on Puzzles, Accidental Career Changes, and the Paradox of Testing Phil Kirkham on puzzles, accidental career changes, and the paradox of testing.
Personal Optimization • Jan 08, 2016 A Few New Year’s Resolutions I seek out career advice and coaching best practices in my professional life. This year, I'm apply what I've learned to my personal life as well.
C & C++ • Jan 07, 2016 Rekindling an Old Flame with C++11 C++ still doesn't compare to the newer languages out there, but it doesn't look like the language I broke up with in 2002.
Culture • Jan 06, 2016 What the Heck Is an “Atomic Object”? Atomic Object has an interesting name, but not everyone knows that its rooted in two key computer science concepts.
