Development Practices • May 28, 2015 Best Practices for Dev. Project Resurrection Taking over a project that has been archived for a few years can be daunting. Here are key practices and tools to help you maintain sanity (and budget).
Workplace • May 27, 2015 Better Environment, Better Team – 5 Ways Changing Conditions Can Solve Problems Changing other people (or yourself) is very difficult. Look for solutions in the people, processes, and objects that surround and affect you.
Software Science • May 26, 2015 Mean Shift Clustering An overview of mean shift clustering (one of my favorite algorithms) and some of its strengths and weaknesses.
Growing as Makers • May 24, 2015 Programming Exercises to Stretch your Noodle Three great sources of free programming exercises: Project Euler, CodeEval, and Exercism.io.
Growing as Makers • May 22, 2015 5 Articles that Changed my Perspective on Design These authors have become my design heroes, teaching me confidence, clarity, and perspective.
Embedded Systems • May 21, 2015 Generating Rust Bindings for Embedded Libraries rust-bindgen can generate Rust bindings automatically, directly from C header files.
Project & Team Management • May 20, 2015 Consulting and the Four Stages of Competence Unconscious competence is a danger zone for consultants because when we forget how much we know, we don't explain things fully and clearly.
Evolving the Industry • May 19, 2015 Domain-Specific Languages vs. Notation A truly domain-specific language is like math notation: it's well suited for both expressing solutions and solving problems.
Ember.js • May 18, 2015 Improving Ember-CLI Testing with Sinon.js How to improve your Ember-CLI app's tests with Sinon.js for both QUnit and Mocha frameworks.
Developer Tools • May 17, 2015 Google Sheets’ Query Language Using the QUERY function in Google Sheets, which supports querying a spreadsheet dataset using SQL.
Embedded Systems • May 16, 2015 Rapid Prototypes for Devices with Raspberry Pi It can be hard to achieve quick feedback cycles on embedded projects. Here's an approach to rapid prototypes with cheap displays and a Raspberry Pi.
Growing as Makers • May 15, 2015 Obtaining a Thorough CS Background Online An eclectic online curriculum that covers the core requirements of a typical undergraduate CS program.
