Embedded Systems • Oct 02, 2013 Getting the Most out of Ceedling’s Module Generator Ceedling's Module Generator lets you create stubs of source files, header files and tests, in the directories of your choosing, with a simple rake command.
Development Practices • Oct 01, 2013 3 Benefits of Fake APIs Fake APIs have been enormously helpful — opening lines of communication, allowing for parallelization, and exposing problems in their early stages.
Ruby • Sep 30, 2013 Setting a Socket Connection Timeout in Ruby How to use the Socket class' connect_nonblock method paired with IO.select to set a connection timeout for a Ruby socket.
Extracurricular Activities • Sep 28, 2013 Hacking EVE, Part 1 – Reading SDD Data An introduction to using ActiveRecord and RSpec to read EVE's static data dump from a MySQL database.
UX/Design Practices • Sep 27, 2013 3 Reasons I Choose Agile Design over Waterfall Many factors that go into weighing which process may be right for your team—here are some benefits to working with an agile project team.
Ruby • Sep 26, 2013 Kicking the Tires on Ruby 2.1 Preview Digging into the details of Ruby's 2.1 Preview features like its new garbage collector and optimized method cache.
Extracurricular Activities • Sep 25, 2013 Getting Started with GNU Privacy Guard An overview of how GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) works with keys and keyrings, plus how to get started using GPG.
Personal Optimization • Sep 24, 2013 Have a Busy Boss? Here’s 5 Ways to Make Every Minute Count To keep projects moving and make the best use of Carl’s time and mine, I try to keep our meetings as short and productive as possible.
Web Apps • Sep 23, 2013 Deploy to AWS S3 and CloudFront with Rake Fully automate the deploy of your static site to Amazon's S3 with CloudFront support using a simple set of Rake tasks.
Developer Tools • Sep 21, 2013 Obliterate Unsavory git Objects with the BFG Demonic git blobs got you down? Time to bring out the BFG.
Growing as Makers • Sep 20, 2013 Becoming a Software Testing Mentor for Per Scholas I recently became a mentor for Per Scholas, a non-profit that's giving IT training to people in low-income communities and helping them find jobs.
Ember.js • Sep 19, 2013 Debugging with Ember Inspector – Ember’s Chrome Plugin The creators of Ember have created Ember Inspector, a Chrome plugin for debugging, with quick access to Ember objects and data.
