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Personal Optimization • Dec 08, 2014

Dealing with Project Bumps – Get Mad, Get Over it, Get Smarter

When trouble comes, you can keep your sanity by remembering that bad stuff happens, reacting appropriately, and then making the most of it.

Ruby • Dec 07, 2014

Ember-Style Computed Properties in Ruby Gamebox

Figuring out how to use Ember-style computed properties in Ruby Gamebox.

Personal Optimization • Dec 06, 2014

Keeping a Non-Backlog To-Do List with Todoist

Todoist is for what I call minor-miscellaneous items like: “Propose a new time for Greg’s meeting request” or “Ship circuit board to Frank."

Ruby • Dec 05, 2014

Automating Artifact Generation on Capybara(-Webkit) Failures with Autopsy

Reviews common process of investigating test failures and the Autopsy gem for automating generating useful artifacts.

Development Practices • Dec 04, 2014

Empowering Our Clients to Deploy Their Own Apps

Giving out customer the keys to deployment has been gratifying and liberating--I highly recommend you try it on your own projects.

Growing as Makers • Dec 03, 2014

Growing Developers and Designers into Leaders

It takes much more than technical skill to bring a complex project to fruition. But what does "leadership" really mean at a place with little hierarchy?

Development Practices • Dec 02, 2014

Five Steps to Finding Performance Bottlenecks

How to pinpoint the source performance optimization problems in your applications.

Developer Tools • Dec 01, 2014

How to Perform an Unwind Segue Programmatically

In this blog post, I will show you how to perform Unwind Segues Programmatically and show you a couple ways you can pass data along.

Technical Practices • Nov 30, 2014

5 Ways Atomic Object Keeps Your App Secure

Atomic takes security concerns very seriously and uses a number of patterns and practices to ensure that the software we write is safe and secure.

Project & Team Management • Nov 29, 2014

A Kanban for Every Occasion – Beyond “To Do”, “Doing” and “Done”

Kanban boards are great for displaying the state of a project, but they can do so much more.

C & C++ • Nov 28, 2014

byte_array – The Missing Built-in Type for C

Though C does have a concept of arrays of any arbitrary type, an array has no concept of how long it is!! This library is an attempt to remedy this hole.

Technical Practices • Nov 26, 2014

6 Reasons to Build a Firmware Test Suite

Projects where firmware talks to software should have a high-level test suite written against the firmware's interface to the software.