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.
Communities • Sep 18, 2013 Atomic Object ❤s Girl Develop It Atomic Object is a proud sponsor of Girl Develop It Detroit, which provides mentorship and instruction to women interested in software development.
Extracurricular Activities • Sep 17, 2013 Completing the Circuit: From Arduino to AVR Microcontrollers for Hobbyist Projects There are great resources for electronics beginners to learn Arduino—not for people who want to learn general microcontrollers.
Personal Optimization • Sep 16, 2013 Hackers & Writers – Practicing the Non-Linear Arts I grew up writing both stories and code, but it took me a long time to figure out just how similar they are.
Extracurricular Activities • Sep 13, 2013 Hackable Cars, for Enthusiasts… and Others Our cars are hackable, and the possibilities range from merely inconvenient to downright dangerous.
Developer Tools • Sep 12, 2013 A Comparison of Remote Pairing Tools – Skype vs. Wemux vs. Chrome Remote Desktop A look at several tools I've used for remote pairing (Skype, Webmux, and Chrome Remote Desktop) and their respective strengths and weaknesses.
