Atomic Spin

Ruby on Rails • Apr 29, 2015

Managing Complex Permissions in CanCanCan for Rails

Simple example of expressing and encapsulating more complex permissions than CanCan's base syntax accounts for.

Developer Tools • Apr 28, 2015

Working with Text at the Command Line – Tools for Searching & Editing

The multi-monitor, high-resolution graphics revolution didn't bring graphics, just windows full of text. Command lines are still great working with text.

Software Science • Apr 27, 2015

A Comparison of 5 Uniprocessor OS Scheduling Policies

Analyzes and compares five short-term uniprocessor operating system scheduling policies: FCFS, RR, SPN, SRT, and HRRN.

Web Apps • Apr 26, 2015

CSS is a Mess – Applying the SRP and the Law of Demeter

Organize and clean up your CSS with the Single Responsibility Principle and the Law of Demeter.

UX/Design Practices • Apr 25, 2015

Creating a Design Inspiration Archive

Every day, I stumble across content that introduces me to a new ideas, beautiful pictures, great layouts, or amazing typography.

Development Practices • Apr 24, 2015

Sticky Documentation, Part 2: Source Control History as Documentation

How to make the most of documentation that "sticks" close to an application through its lifecycle—source control history.

Developer Tools • Apr 23, 2015

Specifying the Destination of an Unwind Segue Programmatically

How to programmatically determine the destination of an iOS Unwind Segue by overriding canPerformUnwindSegueAction.

.NET / WPF • Apr 22, 2015

Functional C# Application Composition, Part 3: MethodToDelegate

Describes the MethodToDelegate library and how to use it to register methods and delegates in dependency injection.

Evolving the Industry • Apr 21, 2015

A Strategy for Teaching Programming – Logic First

Teaching programming logic-first instead of syntax-first will create programmers who can problem solve and start implementing useful code on their own.

Web Apps • Apr 20, 2015

Web Application Architecture from 10,000 Feet, Part 3 – Frontend Development

How Single Page Applications (SPAs) work, how JavaScript doesn't, and how you can use frameworks and libraries to fix it.

Technical Practices • Apr 18, 2015

Atomic Glossary, Part 2 – Atomic & Software Industry Jargon

In this edition I’d like to touch base on some internal jargon that, as far as I know, we use specifically at Atomic Object

Development Practices • Apr 17, 2015

Sticky Documentation, Part 1: Code as Documentation

How to make the most of the documentation that "sticks" closest to an application through its lifecycle—the code itself.