Growing as Makers • Nov 22, 2014 My Top Two Learning Resources In recent years, a number of websites popped up to make education more accessible and enjoyable.
Technical Practices • Nov 21, 2014 Technical Spikes – Rehearsing Your Software A spike helps us solve problems without committing lots of time or resources. It lets us work out code's kinks and solve the problem.
Personal Optimization • Nov 20, 2014 Understanding the 3 Main Types of Encryption An overview of symmetric encryption, asymmetric encryption, and hashing — how they work and why you need all three to create secure systems.
News & Events • Nov 19, 2014 Atomic Object Named one of Michigan’s “Cool Places to Work” Atomic is honored to be named of 75 "Cool Places to Work" in Michigan by Crain's Detroit Business.
Ember.js • Nov 18, 2014 Flexure: A Lightweight Model Framework for Ember.js A lightweight Ember Data alternative that makes fewer assumptions.
Business Practices • Nov 17, 2014 Clients Aren’t Customers – They’re Teammates Working closely with a client, forming one client/maker team, will always get the best results.
Culture • Nov 15, 2014 A Day in the Life of an Atom – Project Kickoff I’m going to walk you through an Atomic day at the start of a project — the initial kickoff and start of a Research, Design, and Planning (RDP) engagement.
Culture • Nov 14, 2014 A Day in the Life of an Atom – Development I don’t know if there’s anything as a “typical day,” but I’m going to walk you through a development-heavy day on my current project.
Mobile Apps • Nov 13, 2014 Using Ember CLI with PhoneGap’s CLI Tools A guide to getting ember-cli cooperating with PhoneGap to generate your mobile application.
Web Apps • Nov 12, 2014 Debugging Memory-Related Errors on a Jetty Web Server Sometimes the Jetty web server runs out of memory, but you can't find the cause. Here are some Jetty tools and services for in-depth analysis.
Planning Your Project • Nov 11, 2014 Charting our Features & Priorities with a Story Map A story map helps us wrap our minds around everything we want our product to do, then prioritize and create implementation phases.
Web Apps • Nov 10, 2014 Validating & Formatting Credit Cards in AngularJS Understanding the algorithms behind credit card validation, plus how to implement them for a web front-end using AngularJS.
