Project & Team Management • Apr 07, 2014 Tackling Silence, Avoidance, & Negativity in Project Retrospectives Most of our project retrospective meetings fall short of ideal. Here are some ideas to bring openness, honesty, and effectiveness to our retros.
Business Practices • Apr 06, 2014 Developing Business in Detroit, the Atomic Way Four ways Atomic is building relationships and business in Detroit.
Extracurricular Activities • Apr 05, 2014 Learning Names and Faces with Anki I created a set of digital flashcards in Anki to help me learn and remember the names and faces of my coworkers.
News & Events • Apr 04, 2014 GLSEC 2014 Focuses on Craftsmanship & Teams – Register Today The annual Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference (GLSEC) will be held at The Prince Center at Calvin College on May 5, 2014. Register today.
Objective-C • Apr 03, 2014 combineLatest vs. zip in ReactiveCocoa A couple of examples showing the differences between the +combineLatest: and +zip: operators in ReactiveCocoa.
Business Practices • Apr 02, 2014 Words Worth Working For There are a lot of reasons to work hard. Let's add "nice words" to the list.
Embedded Systems • Apr 01, 2014 Inexpensive Ethernet JTAG Adapter with Raspberry Pi and OpenOCD You can then plug the programmer into the Pi, connect a debugger to the OpenOCD instance, and debug your firmware remotely!
Technical Practices • Mar 31, 2014 Why Vagrant? – Preventing Deployment Issues from Day One with a Virtual Machine Vagrant virtual machines help developers prevent deployment issues by allowing them to write code in production-like environments.
News & Events • Mar 30, 2014 Saying Goodbye to Maja We lost a member of the Atomic family recently. Maja, my 11-year-old Siberian Husky, reached the end of her long, happy dog life.
Developer Tools • Mar 29, 2014 Increasing Pivotal Tracker Usability with Shorter IDs Shorter IDs makes it easier to find stories your Pivotal Tracker backlog, so I used Pivotal's REST API to create custom IDs.
DevOps & System Admin. • Mar 28, 2014 Simpler Deploys with git Subtrees Using subtrees can help work around specific limitations in Heroku and enforce proper separation of concerns.
Business Practices • Mar 27, 2014 Wanted: New Atoms At Atomic, we measure technical ability not on what we need right now, but on the candidates' understanding of the tools they claim to know.
