Ruby • Feb 18, 2011 Odd Warbler + Compass Gem Interaction Here's the short version: If this looks familiar... make sure you don’t compile config/compass.rb. There's a longer version, too.
Culture • Feb 01, 2011 Working at Atomic We're looking to hire web, application and mobile developers, embedded developers, user experience/visual designers, and exploratory testers.
Planning Your Project • Jan 31, 2011 Spending Too Little Is Worse than Spending Too Much It’s much worse in a custom software development project to spend 80% of what you need than it is to spend 120% of what you need.
Web Apps • Jan 27, 2011 Website Video using Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, & JWPlayer The following is a road-map of my path to enlightenment and the eventual solution I employed.
Development Practices • Jan 21, 2011 Diff, not That Do you know about the --ignore-matching-lines option to GNU diff? I recently found a great use for it on a recent project here at Atomic.
Platforms & Languages • Jan 18, 2011 Character Encoding Fun with SMS Messages There is a large overlap between values for characters in GSM and ASCII, but certain important symbols (such as $ and @) are not included.
UX/Design Tools • Jan 04, 2011 10 Things I Learned about Blueprint CSS Using a good CSS framework like Blueprint CSS provides a lot of tools that make the layout of the page much quicker and easier to implement.
Embedded Systems • Jan 03, 2011 Announcement: Unity and CMock 2.0 For anyone who is using (or has been thinking of using) Unity and/or CMock for unit testing in C, the latest version of each has been released.
Planning Your Project • Dec 29, 2010 iOS Distribution Methods There are three main ways to distribute iOS applications. Each has its own set of advantages and disadvantages.