Atomic Spin

Ruby on Rails • Mar 05, 2012

Basic Devise and Mass Assignment – Am I Missing Something?

What's the best way to handle mass assignment protection of the password field and still use Devise's built in controllers?

Embedded Systems • Mar 04, 2012

Lightweight Objects in Embedded C

Extracurricular Activities • Mar 04, 2012

Seeing Stars – The Automated Way, Part 2

An example of automating astronomy devices using the ASCOM platform and Ruby. Addressing cross-platform ASCOM

Web Apps • Mar 01, 2012

Using Namespaces in CoffeeScript

using is a coffeescript helper for merging namespaces in coffeescript to clean up your code

DevOps & System Admin. • Feb 28, 2012

Load Balancing and Reverse Proxying with Nginx

Using Nginx is a convenient method to set up a load balancer and remote proxy for websites and web apps. Example configurations demonstrate use cases.

Embedded Systems • Feb 24, 2012

TDD Comes to Arduino

I want to share an example so simple, and a list of instructions so complete, that pretty much anyone can start to do TDD in embedded.

Web Apps • Feb 20, 2012

Given I Am Signed in Using capybara-webkit

Directly authenticate a user from a Cucumber step by setting a cookie using capybara-webkit.

Embedded Systems • Feb 15, 2012

Avoid Putting Preprocessor Directives in .c Files

Embedded Systems • Feb 14, 2012

How to Write Good Requirements

Writing good requirements is hard. Here are some tips that will hopefully make the process more clear.

UX/Design Tools • Feb 14, 2012

You Should Read: The Visual Language of Dashed Lines

A post over at Understanding Graphics explains the vision and cognition research behind our perception and interpretation of dashed lines in visual design.

Personal Optimization, Ruby on Rails • Feb 14, 2012

Writing a Good Blog Post – An 11-Step Process

This process has improved my ability to write my blog posts and general web content.

Functional Programming • Feb 12, 2012

Higher-order Contextual Functions in Clojure

Higher-order Clojure functions defining a context (like swap! and send-off) follow a common pattern. See how to apply the pattern to your own functions and macros and how it can be