DevOps & System Admin. • Feb 24, 2011 Resizing LVM Volumes on a Virtual Linux Host without Reboot LVM allows volumes to be dynamically resized online—no rebooting is required. This presumes, of course, that LVM is set up initially when the virtual host is created.
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.
