Atomic Spin

Software Science • Nov 15, 2012

Message-Oriented Programming

Designing around the messages, rather than the objects, brought my whole system into focus. If modules communicate by passing around self-contained textual data, or a simple struct

Project & Team Management • Nov 14, 2012

Moving Beyond Story Points, Iterations, and Burn Charts

Though they have a place, burn charts, iterations, and story points don't keep the team focused on shipping meaningful chunks of value.

Ruby • Nov 13, 2012

Convenient Trick for Tolerance-based Test Assertions Using #ish

Enabling the #ish syntax to ease the writing of automated Ruby system and integration tests that rely on fuzzy or tolerance-based assertions.

Project & Team Management • Nov 12, 2012

Agile XP Meets Critical Chain – Part 1: Getting Faster Delivery

If you're willing to slay a few sacred cows, Agile and Critical Chain can dramatically speed up your software development projects.

Evolving the Industry • Nov 11, 2012

Unifying Programming and Math – The Dependent Type Revolution

A programmer's introduction to Martin-Löf Type Theory, a recent theory that elegantly unifies programming and math.

Business Practices • Nov 09, 2012

Self-Managed Teams Are Effective Teams

Self-managed teams can communicate faster and better, build more trust with clients, avoid conflict, and make better decisions.

Ruby Motion • Nov 08, 2012

Using Nimbus with UITableViews in RubyMotion: An Example

Sometimes an example is the best documentation. This is an example of how to use Nimbus to help manage a UITableView and its cells.

UX/Design Practices • Nov 08, 2012

What Are the Categories of Design?

A brief review of the categories of design, courtesy of Bettina von Stamm's book "Managing Innovation, Design, and Creativity."

Extracurricular Activities • Nov 07, 2012

openBMS: Electric Vehicle Battery Management

openBMS has the potential to be expanded into part of a fully-integrated electric vehicle, communicating with other devices such as chargers and LCD displays.

Platforms & Languages • Nov 06, 2012

Beware the Elvis Operator in Groovy

With Groovy's definition of truth, the elvis operator can lead to confusing results. Make sure that it's actually going to do what you want.

Ruby • Nov 06, 2012

Is Your Application Running with Ruby – Slow?

Ruby may not be compiled for optimal performance with RVM. I benchmarked Ruby, and compiled Ruby with optimization flags to improve performance.

Developer Tools • Nov 05, 2012

Extending Sublime Text… Now for Vim Lovers Too!

Sublime Text’s Vim mode provides good coverage of the basic Vi Command Mode, but it retains the full capabilities of Sublime while in Insert Mode.