Atomic Spin

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.

iOS / OS X • May 28, 2014

Interpolating Points in iOS with UIBezierPath

Two simple and commonly-used methods for interpolating points in iOS with cubic Bezier curves.

Development Practices • May 27, 2014

The Cost of Unit Testing

Is your unit test suite falling short of the value you thought it would have? Here's where you're probably going wrong.

Growing as Makers • May 25, 2014

What Owning a Coffee Shop Taught Me about Software Development

Investing in a coffee business unexpectedly gave me skills to be a better software programmer.

Web Apps • May 23, 2014

Ember.js array.[] syntax

Ember.js has a very powerful computed property, and surprisingly good support for array mutation observers. The array.[] syntax can help you on your way.

Growing as Makers • May 22, 2014

0x20 Lessons Learned as a Professional Developer

"Boring software is the best software," "what I know is way less interesting than what I don't," and a few other things development has taught me.