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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.

Web Apps • Dec 09, 2012

Building and Deploying Custom Binaries on Heroku

Heroku is a great platform – if it has what you need. Here's one workable approach to installing custom binaries on Heroku.

Functional Programming • Dec 08, 2012

miniKanren in Haskell

A simple implementation of miniKanren in Haskell, a miniKanren monad transformer.

Technical Practices • Dec 07, 2012

Thinking Abstractly: Why Programmers Don’t Write Binary Code

Software developers don't write in 1s and 0s. They use layers of abstraction – and so do you.

Development Practices • Dec 06, 2012

Simply Writing Tests Is Not Test Driven Development

Test-driven development is ensuring that your software is functioning and making sure the software’s internals are well designed, reusable and decoupled.

News & Events • Dec 05, 2012

Free Office Space at Atomic Object Detroit

Atomic Object is taking applications until January 10, 2013 from early-stage companies wishing to co-locate in our Detroit office. Office space, snacks, and wifi are free for six m

jRuby • Dec 01, 2012

Preventing JRuby Concurrency Errors with Hamster

How using Hamster's efficient, immutable, thread-safe collections can prevent ConcurrencyError exceptions in JRuby.

Business Practices • Nov 30, 2012

What Business Leaders Must Do in Multi-Project Environments

It is critical for business leaders to assign a clear sequential priority to every project and control the flow of work by postponing their start.