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Culture • Jul 24, 2014

Atomic Culture Pairs – Teaching to Learn

Unless new knowledge is put into practice, you'll never fully understand what you've learned, nor will you know how to apply it.

Functional Programming • Jul 23, 2014

Funkify and Pattern-Proc: Messing with Ruby for Fun (but probably not profit)

Making Ruby work with partial applications and first-class functions using the funkify and pattern-proc gems.

Growing as Makers • Jul 22, 2014

Agile Leadership with the Leadership Agility Compass

Using Joiner and Josephs' Leadership Agility Compass to understand the many facets of leadership.

Android Development • Jul 21, 2014

Evil Android Styling

This post walks through the basics of styling Android widgets, along with some tricks to polish your styles.

Developer Tools • Jul 20, 2014

Develop Smoothly with the Right MacBook CPU

Looking at upgrading your development machine? Learn how to choose the right CPU using benchmark data.

Developer Tools • Jul 19, 2014

5 Awesome Lesser-Known Chrome DevTools Features

Chrome DevTools supports inline HTML and CSS editing, JavaScript breakpoints, and more. These are some of my favorite lesser-know features of DevTools,

Planning Your Project • Jul 18, 2014

Developing a Mobile App? Some Numbers You’ll Need to Know

Are you thinking about developing a mobile app? Here are current mobile phone statistics and resources for up-to-date numbers.

Evolving the Industry • Jul 17, 2014

Social Weight, Needy Devices, & the Need for Continuity – Key Takeaways from O’Reilly Solid

The intersection of software and hardware is rich with opportunities in every space — business, manufacturing, consumer products, and social good.

Ruby on Rails • Jul 15, 2014

Battling Rails Translations with AnnoTranslate

A middleware stack plugin to ease the burden of the developer/translator interfacing and workflow in Rails apps.

Workplace • Jul 14, 2014

Space Matters – Workplace Design Insights

Atomic Object in Grand Rapids is at the front end of a workplace redesign. Make Space by Scott Doorley and Scott Witthoft has lots of food for thought.

Growing as Makers • Jul 13, 2014

Problem Solving at 200 Feet

As I learned how to rock climb, the way I approached problems quickly changed.

Growing as Makers • Jul 12, 2014

Three Great Talks from self.conference 2014

Chris Nelson on web components, Angela Harms on people skills, and Leon Gersing on the philosophy of technology