Personal Optimization • Sep 13, 2015 Putting “Certainty” to the Test in Group Decisions Often certainty—not accuracy or correctness—is what persuades others to follow your way of thinking.
Evolving the Industry • Sep 12, 2015 Embracing Diversity in the Workplace Letting issues compound the complexities of working with others can make things worse. We need to accept and embrace our differences and work together.
Personal Optimization • Sep 11, 2015 No Screen Time Before Bed: An Experiment During the two weeks, I measured my sleep quality on a scale from 1-5. I also documented the number of snoozes it took me to get out of bed.
Web Apps • Sep 10, 2015 Many Directives, One Controller in Angular My solution? Create different directives for each state of the view, along with a super directive to tie them all together.
Project & Team Management • Sep 09, 2015 Don’t Suffer in Silence – A Template for Scary Conversations It's easy to tell ourselves a story about what's wrong, and even easier to suffer in silence. But suffering is an unacceptable solution—no one wins.
Development Practices • Sep 08, 2015 Sharing Data without Using Globals Developers should only use global data as a last resort. In most cases, a safer pattern will allow the desired data to be shared more securely.
Personal Optimization • Sep 06, 2015 Script Away Your Annoyances – Automatically Publish Your Favorite Feeds in Instapaper Using ifttt (If This, Than That) to automatically save blog posts to Instapaper.
UX/Design Tools • Sep 04, 2015 How to Identify Embedded Fonts in a PDF When I find a great design that uses an unfamiliar font, I like to do a bit of investigating to figure out what it is.
.NET / WPF • Sep 03, 2015 Improving Analysis with C# 6 Exception Filters Using exception filters in C# 6 to improve debugging and crash dump analysis.
Developer Tools • Sep 02, 2015 The Easy Way to Switch Container Views in iOS This is a simple way you can switch between two iOS container views.
Web Apps • Sep 01, 2015 Optimize Web App Performance through Drawing What calls were being made when? What impact would changing our API have? To help visualize what’s going on, try drawing out your page.
Software Science • Aug 31, 2015 An Introduction to Taxicab Geometry Like Flatland, TaxicabLand is a two-dimensional world, but with one very important difference: its inhabitants define distance with taxicab geometry.
