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Growing as Makers • May 21, 2016

A Trip to SyntaxCon 2016

There was a ton of good content packed into the two intense days of SyntaxCon, and I wanted to share some highlights.

Ruby on Rails • May 20, 2016

A Minimalist Guide to Customizing ActiveAdmin Forms

A minimalist's guide to customizing ActiveAdmin forms, relying more on Ruby and logic than on the unique ins and outs of ActiveAdmin.

Development Practices • May 19, 2016

Managing Multiple Releases in a Production Application

Comparing two Agile workflows for managing multiple releases in a production application: Release Branches vs. Feature Flags

Web Apps • May 18, 2016

Avoiding “Undefined is Not a Function” with Constants

Constants pair well with JavaScript's powerful object data structure, and they can prevent all kinds of problems, including "Undefined is Not a Function."

Project & Team Management • May 17, 2016

Divide Scrum Work More Efficiently with Vertical Slicing

Vertical slicing fosters a better team spirit and a better understanding of how to tackle new tasks – leading to more happiness, confidence, and creativity.

DevOps & System Admin. • May 16, 2016

Ansible Communication with AWS EC2 Instances on a VPC

Using SSH options like ProxyCommand, Ansible can readily work with privately addressed EC2 instances on a AWS VPC subnet.

Developer Tools • May 15, 2016

Parallelizing Ember Tests Across CI Workers

CircleCI's parallel testing is great, but it was a little tricky to get it working with Ember tests. Here's how we did it.

News & Events • May 13, 2016

The Atomic Accelerator is Powering Up!

Roughly six months ago, we announced that Atomic would be launching an Accelerator program in 2016. We're excited to start the program in a few weeks.

Ruby • May 12, 2016

Monadt – Algebraic Data Types and Monads in Ruby, Part 2: Monads

Bringing more functional programming to Ruby via Monads and Algebraic Data Types with the new Monadt Ruby gem.

Ruby • May 11, 2016

Monadt – Algebraic Data Types and Monads in Ruby, Part 1: ADTs

The monadt gem adds support for algebraic data types and monads to Ruby, while attempting to be as readable and Ruby-like as possible.

UX/Design Techniques • May 10, 2016

How to Prepare Your Website for Printing

Have you ever tried to print your website? Whoaa, right?! In a few steps, we can get your site looking presentable in no time.

Developer Tools • May 09, 2016

Fill and Space Content Evenly in a UIStackView

How to set the content inside a UIStackView to fill equally and have proper spacing in between your controls.