Atomic Spin

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.

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.