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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.

Ruby • Dec 28, 2010

RSpec Backtrace Filtering

Recently I ran into some trouble with the way I was trying to use the Mongoid gem. Eventually I realized that RSpec was filtering out parts of my backtrace.

Ruby on Rails • Dec 16, 2010

Using IntelliJ for Rails Development

I like using IntelliJ, but it was rather difficult to figure out what features were available and how to get them working.

Ruby • Dec 16, 2010

System Test Active Directory Authentication in Ruby

I came across a few Ruby libraries for connecting to Active Directory, but I used net-ldap gem, the environment_configurable gem and a few lines of code.

Web Apps • Dec 15, 2010