Atomic Spin

Project & Team Management • Jun 24, 2013

Shared Understanding: Building Languages and Communities Around Software

A look at how language and community can promote better understanding and shared vision between makers and their clients.

Embedded Systems • Jun 23, 2013

Aliasing Serial Baud Rates in FTDI Drivers for Mac OS X

I needed to interface my computer to an embedded device, and I found a way to configure a relatively cheap USB UART bridge to support it.

Project & Team Management • Jun 22, 2013

Kanban for a 4th Grader: Task Cards of Happiness

This story of a 4th-grader tackling his homework with task cards reminds us that the 3x5 gems are more than an old Agile tool. They're about happiness.

Android Development • Jun 20, 2013

Getting Scala with Akka Actors Working on Android

Akka can be tricky to get working on Android. I found a ProGuard configuration that made it work for me using Scala.

Platforms & Languages • Jun 19, 2013

Behind the Scenes with CHICKEN Scheme and SPOCK (Part 2)

An interview with Felix Winkelmann about CHICKEN Scheme and SPOCK, a Scheme-to-JavaScript compiler.

Ruby Motion • Jun 18, 2013

ReactiveCocoa & RubyMotion: The Setup

Prepare to use ReactiveCocoa to achieve reduced state and complexity in your RubyMotion iOS development project.

Project & Team Management • Jun 17, 2013

Tackle Your Bootloader First!!

Having a bootloader in place is crucial for any embedded product. Not tackling it early will risk getting your product to market, and its long term health.

Web Apps • Jun 13, 2013

Rake Assets Precompile with JRuby Complete

A quick work-around to get rake assets:precompile to work when using the jruby-complete.jar.

Project & Team Management • Jun 12, 2013

Prioritizing Refinements – Choose Wisely

Software features are prioritized rigorously. We should give just as much attention to prioritizing the refinements a dev team decides to tackle.

Web Apps • Jun 10, 2013

Selectivizr – Pseudo Selector Support for IE

Internet Explorer has terrible support for pseudo selectors. With Selectivizr, we can make that support a little nicer and do some fun stuff with CSS!

DevOps & System Admin. • Jun 08, 2013

Taming Your Cluster with ZooKeeper

Clusters and distributed systems can be tamed with Zookeeper, which guarantees sequential, atomic, reliable, and consistent data across your cluster.

Personal Optimization • Jun 07, 2013

How Do You Know What You Don’t Know?

These three questions can help me identify my understanding of any topic or idea. They also provide a guide on improving my knowledge of any topic or idea I am unfamiliar with.