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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?

DevOps & System Admin. • Sep 27, 2014

Re-imagining Operating Systems: Xen, Unikernels, and the Library OS

We're at the point now where we can look at the system as a whole and start to refactor it. We can eliminate unused components and invent new ones, more tailored to our current con

C & C++ • Sep 20, 2014

Travis CI Now Monitoring Ceedling and Friends CMock/Unity!

Ceedling RubyGem, CMock, and Unity have been migrated to Travis CI for public health monitoring or our ThrowTheSwitch GitHub organization.

Development Practices • Sep 16, 2014

Property-Based Testing – Testing Assumptions You Don’t Know You’re Making

Finding good test input can be tricky. Even with loads of unit tests, bugs still get through. Why not just generate input and let that find the edge cases?

Growing as Makers • Aug 26, 2014

Plays Well with Others – Lessons in Reusable Tooling

Programs must be able to work together, to talk and listen to one another, whether it's pipes, file descriptors, HTTP, or plain old TCP.