Atomic Spin

Extracurricular Activities • Dec 29, 2012

Game Programming in Boo with the Unity Engine, Part 1: Not All Who Wander Are Lost

A review of my attempts to begin developing a game with Boo, especially my attempts to create a test-friendly coding environment.

Web Apps • Dec 28, 2012

Using Marionette.js with Backbone

Marionette has saved me a bunch of time I would've spent writing boilerplate to manage my views and compose nested structures.

jRuby • Dec 27, 2012

JrSerialPort: Connect to a Serial Port in JRuby via RXTX

Simple but effective JRuby code that simplifies the use of RXTX for basic serial port communications, with sample terminal.

Personal Optimization • Dec 26, 2012

Inspiration from Sherlock Holmes

Meditation, even for short periods of time, can increase our powers of concentration and effectiveness as we push the daily limits of multi-tasking.

Growing as Makers • Dec 23, 2012

Code Reading

Practice reading code leads to faster ramp-up on projects. Studying good codebases is also one of the best ways to pick up a sense for project architecture design.

Web Apps • Dec 21, 2012

Using Zeus to Pre-load Ruby on Rails Environments

If you're frustrated by startup delays in Ruby on Rails, try Zeus.

DevOps & System Admin. • Dec 18, 2012

Chef Solo with Capistrano

Capistrano can facilitate the use of Chef Solo for configuring and managing servers. This allows us to provision and manage servers in different environments.

UX/Design Tools • Dec 16, 2012

Create Your Own Font Awesome Icons

Font Awesome gives us the ability to use vector icons in web apps with ease. Using Font Custom, we can create our own icon sets like Font Awesome!

Extracurricular Activities • Dec 15, 2012

Rsync Speedup on Underpowered Systems

Experiencing slow transfer rates with rsync on your LAN? Eliminate CPU bottlenecks with a different transport cipher.

UX/Design Tools • Dec 14, 2012

Why I Use Keynote as a Design Tool

Keynote is a powerful, lightweight tool, and I use it for many projects — from storyboards and user scenarios to process flows and visual frameworks.

Functional Programming • Dec 13, 2012

Using Haskell’s CmdArgs Package

The CmdArgs package takes the pain out of creating command line interfaces around Haskell applications.

Embedded Systems • Dec 10, 2012

Modular Hardware Components to Aid Board Bring Up

In some situations, using modular hardware components can help you test AND keep moving forward.