Atomic Spin

DevOps & System Admin. • Mar 12, 2013

Preparing Machines for Workshops with Vagrant, VirtualBox, & Puppet

If you're giving a workshop, I recommend checking out Vagrant, VirtualBox, and puppet or chef for creating the workshop development environment.

Managing Your Team • Mar 11, 2013

5 Techniques to Get the Most Out of Your Software Team

The better your team understands your goals, and the better you understand their process, the better your final product will be.

Project & Team Management • Mar 10, 2013

Scouting Your User Stories

If you're plagued with poor estimation of user stories, appoint a "scout" — someone who'll take responsibility and properly prepare for planning meetings.

Web Apps • Mar 09, 2013

Serve Local Web Apps under a Custom Domain

.NET / WPF • Mar 06, 2013

Using XAML to Set Focus on a Textbox in WPF Desktop Applications

Instead of one TextBox control for the code, we have 4 TextBox controls. As the user types in each digit, we move focus to the next TextBox for them.

Functional Programming • Mar 05, 2013

Why Haskell Is Worth Learning

Why Haskell? It's an incredibly powerful tool to use with other langues. And learning it will make you a better, smarter, more-versatile programmer.

Ruby • Mar 04, 2013

Defining Immutable Record Types in Ruby with Hamsterdam

Hamsterdam is a Ruby gem that makes it fun and easy to define and use efficient immutable record types in Ruby, backed by Hamster's Hash class.

Project & Team Management • Mar 01, 2013

Using Storytelling to Convey Complicated Ideas

Storytelling is a great way to communicate complicated ideas in a natural way.

Developer Tools • Feb 28, 2013

Emacs or Vim? Get the Best of Both with Evil

Trying to decide on Emacs or Vim? I got the best of both worlds by porting my company's Vim config into Emacs using Evil.

Mobile Apps • Feb 26, 2013

SpeedLimit: Testing Apps on Slow Connections

While building apps, it is important to keep slow connections in mind. SpeedLimit is a tool to help test your application on simulated slow connections.

Ruby • Feb 25, 2013

Making Refs in Ruby Using Celluloid Actors

An example of using Celluloid Actors to provide a poor man's Ref (Clojure-like) around an immutable data structure in JRuby to protect shared state.

.NET / WPF • Feb 24, 2013

MVVM Light Messenger Registration Causing Test Failures

How I got past the “Non-static method requires a target” exception when using the MVVM Light Messenger in my tests.