UX/Design Tools • Oct 08, 2012 Storyboarding with Inkscape and OmniGraffle Expedient sketching and document layout using a combination of tools such as Inkscape, OmniGraffle and Rake.
Development Practices • Oct 03, 2012 Building the Right Acceptance Tests Creating the right acceptance tests starts with choosing the right tools and asking the right questions.
Personal Optimization • Sep 28, 2012 Converse Better: How to Have Productive Technical Arguments Rather than arguing that a technology is inferior/superior overall, discuss where it's particularly useful, and whether another technology would would work better.
DevOps & System Admin. • Sep 13, 2012 From Imperative to Declarative System Configuration with Puppet Start transitioning from imperative to declarative thinking through the use of Puppet's Exec resource type.
Developer Tools • Sep 12, 2012 Why IDEs are Wrong for Embedded Developers Embedded system developers should not use IDEs. They are feature-lacking and slow down the development process.
Culture • Aug 31, 2012 Fighting Dogmatism with Fresh Perspectives Don't forget why you work how you work — spend time with people who have a fresh perspective.
Business Practices • Aug 22, 2012 Generalist Makers: The Unicorns of the Software Industry Teams of generalist software makers are more efficient, more profitable, and more successful than teams of specialists.
Developer Tools • Aug 20, 2012 Using Thor to Build a Command Line Interface Here's a simple command line interface (created in Thor) that provides grep-like functionality around Ruby's regular expression functionality.
Presenter First • Jul 27, 2012 Presenter First in GTK+ and C – Updated for 2012 A sample project that demonstrates Presenter First in the context of GTK+ and C — updated to work with the latest tools.
Personal Optimization • Jul 19, 2012 Systemantics and How They Apply To Everything The principles in Gall's Systemantics helped me understand malfunctioning systems and gave me a better grasp on the agile manifesto.
Personal Optimization • Jul 02, 2012 5 Tips for Success When Joining a New Development Team Success isn't just what you know – it's how well you work with others. Use your skills more effectively to build great software and relationships.
DevOps & System Admin. • Jun 29, 2012 Restoring Deleted Files in Linux from the ext3 Journal With ext3, you can reconstruct (many) deleted files based on entries from the filesystem journal.
