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Managing Your Team • Nov 04, 2014

Agility is about Accuracy

Projects, especially software projects, are liable to change. Agile gives us the power to change course, navigate around obstacles, and add new ideas.

Development Practices • Nov 03, 2014

Breaking Things Is the Best Way to Fix Them

Stuck while debugging? A little creative destruction can shed some light on the shape of the problem and narrow down your options.

Personal Optimization • Nov 02, 2014

3 Tips For Managing Your Time and Tasks

It seems like we are all complaining of not having enough time, even with realtime communications and a smart phone in every pocket. These 3 tips will help!

UX/Design Tools • Nov 01, 2014

Creating & Sharing Color Swatches in Adobe

Create spectacular color swatches for Adobe applications, then save them to use in all your favorite design applications.

Growing as Makers • Oct 31, 2014

Insights from Tina Roth-Eisenberg at the CreativeMornings Summit

When starting an initiative, you need both a clear vision and a loose structure. Find the people you want to work with, then trust them.

iOS / OS X • Oct 30, 2014

Exploring iOS Core Bluetooth: Read Requests

Logging and packet sniffing to learn more about how Core Bluetooth's readValueForCharacteristic method behaves.

UX/Design Techniques • Oct 29, 2014

Turning a Sequence of PNGs into a Basic Animation with Flash

How we created fluid, natural-looking animations in Flash using a series of PNGs.

Development Practices, DevOps & System Admin. • Oct 28, 2014

Test-Driven Infrastructure (TDI)

Many of the benefits of Test-Driven Development can be applied when managing infrastructure as code by pursuing a Test-Driven Infrastructure approach.

Evolving the Industry • Oct 27, 2014

If Your Users Are Unhappy, It’s Broken

"Better software" is software that makes our users' lives just a little easier. If it doesn't meet that goal, it's useless. Sometimes worse than useless.

Growing as Makers • Oct 26, 2014

Extending Your Network through Groups & Meetups

Exposure to different ideas, roles, and problems can be useful for new ideas for testing products.

Developer Tools • Oct 25, 2014

Unwind Segues in iOS Storyboards

An example of how to use iOS Unwind Segues, which give you a way to “unwind” the navigation stack to a particular view controller.

.NET / WPF • Oct 24, 2014

Accessing a .NET Virtual Machine Application from a Host Machine

This is a guide to enabling a .NET application on a virtual machine to be accessed from the host machine.