Evolving the Industry • Jun 07, 2012 Why There’s No One Named Ruby Programming in Ruby AO BitCamp: doing our part to address gender inequity in the STEM fields.
Business Practices • Jun 04, 2012 Characteristics of an Ideal Work Environment This venn diagram describes the ideal place to create great innovation.
Embedded Systems • Jun 01, 2012 Embedded Projects Need Pull Requests I was recently inspired by this github blog post and I think pull requests could enable a nearly ideal workflow for embedded projects.
Development Practices • May 25, 2012 The Perspective of Great Developers The perspective of a great developer helps them provide more value than average developers when things go wrong with third-party code.
Developer Tools • May 11, 2012 Safe Usage of /bin/rm Safe use of /bin/rm is important to prevent destroying critical data. A wrapper script for /bin/rm can help prevent accidental deletions.
Ruby • May 01, 2012 Conject – Modern Dependency Injection in Ruby Conject is a new configurationless Dependency Injection tool for Ruby.
Designing for Users • May 01, 2012 Research the Extremes of a User Community Researching the extremes of a user community can be a faster, more efficient way of discovering what matters to all users.
Embedded Systems • Apr 24, 2012 Implementing Advanced Math Functions Almost every standard library comes with a set of advanced math functions However, occasionally an implementation more closely tuned to your use case is needed
UX/Design Practices • Apr 24, 2012 Designing Around an Experience By understanding the context, motivations, and desires of the person using the product, I can better determine how to design the details.
Business Practices • Apr 20, 2012 Organizational Departments Aren’t Aligned with Innovation It's not their fault, but your talented departements are inclined to suffocate your innovative efforts.
Ruby on Rails • Apr 19, 2012 Improving Unit Test Iteration Speed with Rails, Spork, and Resque Reviews a series of steps taken to make Rails tests using Spork run quickly but properly detect changes to code.
