Development Practices • Dec 02, 2014 Five Steps to Finding Performance Bottlenecks How to pinpoint the source performance optimization problems in your applications.
C & C++ • Nov 24, 2014 odo: Atomic Counters from the Command Line I couldn't think of a command-line program to increment a counter in a file without race conditions, at least not without some sort of database.
Web Apps • Nov 12, 2014 Debugging Memory-Related Errors on a Jetty Web Server Sometimes the Jetty web server runs out of memory, but you can't find the cause. Here are some Jetty tools and services for in-depth analysis.
Development Practices • Nov 03, 2014 Breaking Things Is the Best Way to Fix Them Stuck while debugging? A little creative destruction can shed some light on the shape of the problem and narrow down your options.
iOS / OS X • Oct 30, 2014 Exploring iOS Core Bluetooth: Read Requests Logging and packet sniffing to learn more about how Core Bluetooth's readValueForCharacteristic method behaves.
UX/Design Techniques • Oct 29, 2014 Turning a Sequence of PNGs into a Basic Animation with Flash How we created fluid, natural-looking animations in Flash using a series of PNGs.
Development Practices, DevOps & System Admin. • Oct 28, 2014 Test-Driven Infrastructure (TDI) Many of the benefits of Test-Driven Development can be applied when managing infrastructure as code by pursuing a Test-Driven Infrastructure approach.
Evolving the Industry • Oct 27, 2014 If Your Users Are Unhappy, It’s Broken "Better software" is software that makes our users' lives just a little easier. If it doesn't meet that goal, it's useless. Sometimes worse than useless.
Growing as Makers • Oct 26, 2014 Extending Your Network through Groups & Meetups Exposure to different ideas, roles, and problems can be useful for new ideas for testing products.
Ruby • Oct 22, 2014 Dependency Management with Rubygems & Cocoapods Just because your dependency doesn't contain Ruby or Objective-C doesn't mean you can't use Rubygems or Cocoapods to manage shared code.
UX/Design Tools • Oct 21, 2014 6 Helpful Sketch Shortcuts Useful Sketch keyboard shortcuts: presentation mode, view all artboards, group layers, view/hide layout, move layers back/front, and color picker.
DevOps & System Admin. • Oct 16, 2014 Shellshock – CVEs, Patches, Updates, & Other Resources Shellshock endangers un-patched web servers and Linux devices. So what is it? How can you tell if you’re vulnerable? And how can it be addressed?
