Developer Tools • May 04, 2014 A Tiny Toolbox for Spelunking through JSON A quick look at how curl, bash, jq, and json-diff can make JSON less painful to wrangle from the command-line.
Personal Optimization • May 03, 2014 Timeboxing: Mitigate Risk, Increase Time Awareness When most of us think about completing a task, we think in terms of fixed scope. Fixing the time mitigates risk and increases your productivity.
Planning Your Project • May 02, 2014 Your App Idea Stinks! 3 Steps to Make it Better Before you start thinking about funding and development, make sure your app idea is as good as it could be.
UX/Design Practices • May 01, 2014 Form Does Count – Why Even Small Design Decisions Matter Avoiding details and ignoring small errors will add up to a lousy software experience. Every design decision matters.
Managing Your Team • Apr 30, 2014 The First Tech Hire – Helping Clients Build their Software Company We help our startup clients vet — and sometimes even recruit — their first software developer hire, and we make that person part of the project team.
Development Practices • Apr 29, 2014 This Code Is Untestable! (Part 2, for Developers) This post covers five anti-patterns that lead to untestable software, and how resolving these anti-patterns can clean up your codebase.
Development Practices • Apr 28, 2014 This Code Is Untestable! (Part 1, for Managers) What it means when a developer says code is "untestable," and what you should do about it.
Evolving the Industry • Apr 27, 2014 The Future of Wearable Technology Wearable technology has already come a long way, but it has not yet reached it's full potential.
Personal Optimization • Apr 26, 2014 8 Tips for Working from a Coffee Shop I learned a few things I could have done to use my time more effectively working from a cafe. This is my new coffee shop-preparedness checklist.
Developer Tools • Apr 25, 2014 Why Use Git? 5 reasons I prefer Git over other version control systems like SVN, Mercurial, Perforce, etc.
Evolving the Industry • Apr 24, 2014 Connecting Technology to the Real World Smart software helps us make connections between the abstract world in our computer or phone and the physical world around us.
UX/Design Tools • Apr 23, 2014 2 Tools for Better Remote Design Collaboration Applications to help our poly-skilled software design/dev teams communicate and collaborate.
