Atomic Spin

iOS / OS X • Jun 10, 2014

First Impressions of Swift

A non-Apple programmer takes a look at some of his favorite features of Swift, plus a few misses.

Growing as Makers • Jun 08, 2014

A Talk with Richard Saul Wurman

Fear having an uninteresting life. Fear not being able to answer the question. Comfort is not your friend.

Communities • Jun 07, 2014

Good Eats in Uptown Grand Rapids

The Uptown neighborhoods of Grand Rapids offer a wealth of restaurants, coffee shops, bakeries, breweries and bars, etc. Lucky us.

Functional Programming • Jun 06, 2014

Running F# Using Mono and Unix

A chronicle of my efforts and the challenges I faced, while writing an F# program on OSX using Mono.

Evolving the Industry • Jun 05, 2014

What the Industry Wants: Preparing Design Students for Employment Success

We rarely find design graduates who are prepared to take on the design challenges of today's interconnected digital world. Here's how schools can improve.

UX/Design Techniques • Jun 04, 2014

Facilitating Visual Design Direction with Style Tiles

Style tiles provide a balance between the abstract nature of a mood board and the completeness of a wireframe — helping teams make design decisions faster.

C & C++ • Jun 03, 2014

Avoiding Static Linking Collisions in C++ with Dynamic Namespacing

Sharing code is not a trivial matter. Static linking MAY be an answer... but be careful!

Creating a Lean Startup • Jun 02, 2014

Creating a Software Company? 9 Decisions You Have to Make

There's a lot more to creating a software company than simply creating an outstanding product.

Personal Optimization • Jun 01, 2014

The Proper Care & Feeding of Your Mental Story Machine

Humans are story machines, and those stories require proper feeding to grow.

Growing as Makers • May 31, 2014

Florence Knoll: Defining Modern

I can only learn, strengthen myself, and improve my ability to solve problems by reaching across multiple disciplines.

Developer Tools • May 30, 2014

Expanding User-Defined Runtime Attributes in Xcode with Objective-C

Changing the borderColor & shadowColor of a UIView and the font properties of a UISegmentedControl in XCode w/user-defined runtime attributes & Objective-C.

Project & Team Management • May 29, 2014

What Rambling in Meetings Says about Your Team

By watching ourselves and colleagues for rambling in meetings, we can find and address causes of uncertainty in our project and reduce risk.