Choosing Your Team • Sep 08, 2014 3 Reasons Early-Stage Startups Shouldn’t Ask Us to Sign an NDA Forcing all potential partners to sign an NDA can severely handicap your ability to create a great product by stifling creativity.
Growing as Makers • Sep 06, 2014 Six Ways Developing Software Is Like Being a Parent Surprising, parenting and developing software draw on many of the same skills.
Project & Team Management • Sep 05, 2014 How High Should We Set the “Override” Bar? Improve your team culture by allowing members to purse their best ideas rather than pulling out the override.
Ember.js • Sep 04, 2014 Learning to Love Ember’s Dependency Injection Often, it helps to think outside the boxes ember provides you. Ember’s dependency injection is a great tool for helping you with this.
Software Science • Sep 03, 2014 Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms Developers take garbage collection for granted, but it's hard to see how it works. Watch 5 different GC algorithm visualizations.
Project & Team Management • Sep 02, 2014 Tools & Practices for Remote Teams, Part 2 – Communicate, Communicate, Communicate! Team morale, cohesion, and communication are vital to every team's success — and they take considerably more effort with a remote team.
Workplace • Aug 31, 2014 Nature Matters – Insights on Biomimicry Biomimicry instructs us to build from the bottom up, self-assemble, optimize rather than maximize, use free energy and cross-pollinate.
Growing as Makers • Aug 30, 2014 Finding Inspiration at CreativeMornings Grand Rapids What can I do to spark inspiration? How can I be confident that my time spent watching the ocean or driving through the countryside is going to pay off?
Designing for Users • Aug 29, 2014 Why Software Design Matters As we age, we start to expect things to work a certain way. And when new gadgets don’t meet our expectations, we struggle with them.
iOS / OS X • Aug 27, 2014 How to Animate Images in a UIImageView with Completion Handler How to get a completion handler when animating images in a UIImageView by using CAKeyFrameAnimation instead of setting the animationImages property.
Growing as Makers • Aug 26, 2014 Plays Well with Others – Lessons in Reusable Tooling Programs must be able to work together, to talk and listen to one another, whether it's pipes, file descriptors, HTTP, or plain old TCP.
Culture • Aug 24, 2014 25 Reasons I Love Being an Atom! Why I love my job and why working at Atomic Object is so flipping awesome!
