Atomic Spin

Developer Tools • Nov 27, 2013

Moving Unpushed Changes to a New Branch with Mercurial

You wish you'd been committing your changes to a different branch. Is there a way we can just move unpushed changes onto a new branch? Actually, Yes!

Extracurricular Activities • Nov 26, 2013

A Primer on Esoteric Programming Languages

These are languages that exist not to get work done, but to have fun. If you ask yourself "Why?" you're missing the point.

Web Apps • Nov 25, 2013

Handling Forms with Marionette.js

Handling forms in Marionette.js still required too much boilerplate code for my liking, so I created a custom view class to simplify things.

Extracurricular Activities • Nov 24, 2013

Generating More Secure GPG Keys: A Step-by-Step Guide

How to securely generate a new GPG key and remove the primary key.

Web Apps • Nov 22, 2013

4 Ways to Pass Rails Data to AngularJS

Here are four approaches developers can use to access Rails params and instance variables within their own Angular controller code.

Developer Tools • Nov 21, 2013

Refreshing Team Provisioning Profiles in Xcode 5

A quick how-to on refreshing team provisioning profiles managed by Xcode in Xcode 5.

jRuby • Nov 20, 2013

Using OpenSAML from JRuby

Rails may not be the right tool for every job, but combined with the huge ecosystem of mature Java libraries, it can be a powerful tool.

Choosing Your Team • Nov 19, 2013

Why You Should Trust Your Software Vendor – From a Guy who Fears the Mechanic

Buying custom software services can be scary, since the knowledge imbalance between you and your vendor can put you at risk of being taken advantage of.

.NET / WPF • Nov 18, 2013

IEnumerable, for a More Elegant C#

IEnumerable provides several benefits to C#, including improved readability, more elegant solutions, and code composability.

Developer Tools • Nov 16, 2013

Merging git Repositories Together

Using the git merge repositories command to combine two git repositories into one, in a way that preserves the full commit history of each repository.

Extracurricular Activities • Nov 14, 2013

Optimizing SQLite on Raspberry Pi

A few experiments to optimize SQLite for use with Raspberry Pi.

DevOps & System Admin. • Nov 12, 2013

Production Logging for Sinatra Applications

Exception logging for production Sinatra apps can be tough to set up. Here's how to set up logging of request and errors for your production environment.