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Web Apps • Sep 22, 2011

Protecting Your Intellectual Property: the New XXX Top-Level Domain

The new .xxx TLD raises intellectual property and branding concerns for organizations. A domain name can be reserved to protect trademarks and names.

Embedded Systems • Sep 22, 2011

A Little Bit of XBee

We asked a lot of questions starting a technical spike with XBee radios. Hopefully, some of the answers we found can save you some time and frustration.

Ruby • Sep 16, 2011

Pry Yourself Away from IRB

Pry features syntax highlighting, a flexible plugin architecture, runtime invocation and source and documentation browsing.

Project & Team Management • Sep 16, 2011

Poly-skilled Teams Deliver Products

Poly-skilled co-located teams of generalists are more likely to deliver products on time and efficiently than separate groups of specialized people.

Personal Optimization • Sep 15, 2011

Copying Charts Reliably out of Numbers

Many important components are lost when you copy and paste a chart from Numbers. This is a work-around to reliably get complete charts out of Numbers and into a graphic file format

Web Apps • Sep 13, 2011

Getting the HTML5 Audio Tag to Work in Firefox

HTML5 offers tags that make it easier to embed content into your website. This is the basic audio tag that I could get to work in any browser:

Platforms & Languages • Sep 08, 2011

Converting UTF-8 to the 7-bit GSM Default Alphabet

Converting from UTF-8 to GSM-7 is usually lossy. We came up with a strategy to preserve SMS message content when converting UTF-8 to GSM-7 with Transliteration.

UX/Design Practices • Sep 07, 2011

Rapid Prototyping: A Solid Practice from Studio Art to Software

The wisdom of rapid drawing in the studio art context crosses over into software development. Both practices contain surprising wins.

Exploratory Testing • Aug 31, 2011

iOS Exploratory Testing Techniques

Here are 9 exploratory testing techniques we use when testing iOS applications.

Creating a Lean Startup • Aug 29, 2011

Drawing Your Business Ecosystem

A business ecosystem drawing shows high-level value exchanges for the entities that participate in an offering. We've added these to our kickoff process.

Project & Team Management • Aug 28, 2011

Managing Agile, Poly-skilled Teams with Intermediate Milestones

Managing agile, poly-skilled teams with intermediate milestones allows for better scope management and collaboration.

.NET / WPF • Aug 26, 2011

C#: (a few of) The Good Parts

Every software development environment has its bright points, and C# is no exception. The following are a few features and tools we enjoyed working with.