Project & Team Management • Feb 14, 2015 Making Smart Assumptions in a Project Budget Making assumptions on a project budget is not necessarily a bad thing. Just make sure you back them up with research and validate them along the way.
UX/Design Techniques • Feb 13, 2015 Where Atomic and Photography Meet How Atomic create a cohesive photography style that expressed our lively, welcoming, authentic culture.
Software Science • Feb 12, 2015 An Introduction to the Central Limit Theorem The Central Limit Theorem is the cornerstone of statistics – vital to any type of data analysis.
UX/Design Techniques • Feb 11, 2015 Design Pairing at Atomic During our website redesign, Atomic's designers used pair design for early wireframes and visual direction.
iOS / OS X • Feb 10, 2015 Automated iOS Retain Cycle Testing in Objective-C A simple method of testing for iOS retain cycles / memory leaks in an automated test suite using Objective-C.
UX/Design Techniques • Feb 09, 2015 Using Team-Driven Design to Create a Flexible Content Design System We knew the site would grow with and represent the company for several years. This meant that we needed far more than just a few page mockups.
Web Apps • Feb 08, 2015 How Microsoft’s LogParser can Save Time and Improve Productivity Microsoft's LogParser makes it easy to gain insights into your web applications' performance.
Technical Practices • Feb 07, 2015 Test Everything! (on Validating our Work) Software quality assurance starts by validating our concept of the user, and continues even after the product is in their hands.
UX/Design Techniques • Feb 06, 2015 A Fresh Outlook: Updating Atomic’s Visual Brand Our peers were viewing us as a great place for software development, but they didn't recognize us as a design consultancy.
DevOps & System Admin. • Feb 05, 2015 How to Archive a Website Sometimes, it's necessary to create an archive of a website for offline viewing. We use HTTrack to preserve our old website when we launched our new one.
Business Practices • Feb 04, 2015 Planning & Writing a User-Focused Website for Atomic Object We designed our site to give visitors want they want – quick, straightforward, honest information to help them decide if Atomic's a good fit for them.
Web Apps, Java • Feb 03, 2015 Using Hibernate DAOs in DropWizard Tasks How to set up a DropWizard Task to use Hibernate DAO objects for database work.