Atomic Spin

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!

jRuby • Aug 23, 2014

JRuby, Rails, and Jetty – Where Are my Assets?

Chasing down issues with static asset serving in Rails 4 under JRuby and Jetty. Where have my images and CSS gone?

UX/Design Tools • Aug 22, 2014

For Product Demos and Lightweight Usability Testing on Mobile, Give Ziggi-HD a Try

We performed a usability test on a mobile web app by using Ziggi-HD USB Camera to comfortably observe while the user completed the test. It worked great!