Atomic Spin

Extracurricular Activities • Dec 07, 2011

Common SSD Pitfalls

Solid state drives, due to being relatively immature and expensive when compared to hard drives, an ideal setup can be difficult to attain.

Embedded Systems • Dec 05, 2011

SVUnit Brings TDD to Logic Design

Unit-testing and TDD could benefit logic design, since ASIC bugs are expensive to fix. SVUnit is a promising endeavor for the Verilog crowd.

Development Practices • Dec 05, 2011

You’re Ready to Deploy – You Must Be Done, Right?

Your app might do everything your customers asked, but does it do everything you need? Here're tools for monitoring and diagnosing issues after it ships.

DevOps & System Admin. • Dec 02, 2011

Creating a Custom Yum Repository for Puppet

Puppet's automated management of installed applications and libraries can be enhanced with custom package repositories, such as a custom yum repository.

Embedded Systems • Dec 01, 2011

A Practical Example of TDD Working

UX/Design Practices • Nov 30, 2011

Inexpensive UX Display Boards: Cheap Tools & Good Process

You can build a UX display board inexpensively with foam core boards and stands to keep UX design artifacts visible and help guide the team.

Web Apps • Nov 25, 2011

Integrating Paypal Express with Rails 3.1 – Part 2

How to integrate Paypal with Ruby on Rails 3.1. A step-by-step tutorial.

DevOps & System Admin. • Nov 23, 2011

Bash, Pipes, and Standard Input

If we simply drop the less than character, we will be providing our script to bash as an argument, leaving standard input untouched. Life is good.

Software Science • Nov 23, 2011

Binary Serialization Tour Guide

A list of most of the choices for serializing and communicating binary data structures.

Web Apps • Nov 17, 2011

libiconv Problems with MAMP, PHP, and Ruby

Solution to a problem executing a Ruby script from PHP using MAMP on Mac OS X where the wrong libiconv was being picked up.

Development Practices • Nov 15, 2011

From Pigment to Pixels: What Art History Can Teach Us about Software Design

This post compares and contrasts software design for hire with art done for patrons.

Embedded Systems • Nov 15, 2011

C Tips and Tricks, Part I

This post focuses on how to construct constant and volatile pointers, and how to avoid a common pitfall when dealing with floating point constants.