Atomic Spin

UX/Design Practices • Apr 22, 2012

More Takeaways from Cooper UX Bootcamp

UX Bootcamp was a really great experience. Here are four big things I learned.

Business Practices • Apr 20, 2012

Organizational Departments Aren’t Aligned with Innovation

It's not their fault, but your talented departements are inclined to suffocate your innovative efforts.

Ruby on Rails • Apr 19, 2012

Improving Unit Test Iteration Speed with Rails, Spork, and Resque

Reviews a series of steps taken to make Rails tests using Spork run quickly but properly detect changes to code.

Web Apps • Apr 16, 2012

Lets Talk – An EventBus in Backbone.js

Communication between arbitrary views in Backbone.js can be tough. Here is our solution to build an EventBus to allow communication via a pub/sub setup.

Development Practices • Apr 13, 2012

State in Web Applications

The problem with the CGI way is that the state of your application is bifurcated between client and server and exists in different places at different times

Extracurricular Activities • Apr 10, 2012

How Safe is Your Home? – Creating a Homemade Security System

Designing a custom home-made security system for your home.

Extracurricular Activities • Apr 05, 2012

BASIC: Cross-Platform, Cross-Generational

A brief history of BASIC and some reasons to believe it is still useful today as a beginner's language.

Developer Tools • Apr 04, 2012

Simple Remote Pairing with wemux

wemux is a script that simplifies the management of shared tmux sessions.

DevOps & System Admin. • Apr 03, 2012

Setting up BIND9 and DHCP3 on Ubuntu with Dynamic DNS

Learn how to set up a DNS/DHCP server on Ubuntu with BIND9 and DHCP3-server to perform Dynamic DNS updates, also troubleshoot common problems and errors.

Embedded Systems • Mar 30, 2012

Common C Preprocessor Mistakes

Ruby on Rails • Mar 26, 2012

A Single CI Task for Rails

Want to run database and test tasks together in continuous integration? This might help.

Developer Tools • Mar 20, 2012

Learn Vim with Spaced Repetition

Resources for using a spaced repetition algorithm to learn Vim and its commands.