Atomic Spin

UX/Design Practices • Jan 26, 2012

Understand Design or Fail

I often use “Big D Design” to distinguish Strategy and Process from the Tangible, where I often use “Visual Design” to describe the craft.

Development Practices • Jan 24, 2012

Designers Are More Valuable than Programmers

Insights as to how developers practice design and an assertion of the diminishing value of the "coder" mindset.

Developer Tools • Jan 22, 2012

Highlight Strings in Cucumber Features with Vim

An "after" syntax file that adds highlighting to double quoted strings in Cucumber feature files when using tpope's vim-cucumber plugin.

Web Apps • Jan 21, 2012

window.location as a Global Variable

Why I've chosen to avoid setting window.location directly, and how I've avoided it using Backbone's structures.

iOS / OS X • Jan 20, 2012

Mobile Safari on iOS 5.1 Unexpectedly Making Cross Origin Resource Sharing Requests

My Ajax calls were failing and I saw my application logs containing many requests with the HTTP verb "OPTIONS". I narrowed it to oddities with PDFs on Safari.

UX/Design Practices • Jan 19, 2012

Usability Testing Field Notes

Some thoughts about what it takes to put together a successful usability testing session.

Evolving the Industry • Jan 19, 2012

A Modern Web Development Syllabus

A list of resources, books, and tutorials to bring a computer scientist up to speed with the latest tools and practices used in modern web development.

Evolving the Industry • Jan 17, 2012

Diversity – A Powerful Force for Innovation

Scott Page's book: The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies offers a compelling argument for diversity as a powerful force fo

Web Apps • Jan 17, 2012

Say it Again: CRUD is not REST

Nick Sutterer makes a great case for separating CRUD from REST, and also touches on the important interface constraints of the REST architectural style.

C & C++ • Jan 15, 2012

Using CMock when C is Oversensitive

Employing CMock is usually straightforward. Here are a few common sticking points I've come across and how you can work around them.

UX/Design Tools • Jan 15, 2012

Working with Compass Sprites

The problem comes in being able to tweak the positioning after Compass has done its work.

C & C++ • Jan 14, 2012

Comparing googlemock to Mocha

Compares unit testing with mock objects in googlemock to RSpec/Mocha, highlighting the differences for someone used to higher-level languages like Ruby.