Growing as Makers, The Software Life • Dec 10, 2016 Book Review – Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change If you care about influencing change to one degree or another, reading "Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change" makes a lot of sense.
Exploratory Testing • Dec 03, 2016 More Ways to Test – A Tester’s Consistency Checklist One of the tests I do is a consistency test, which is difficult to automate, and testing for it can unearth different sorts of problems.
TypeScript • Nov 30, 2016 Immutable.js Records in TypeScript Use these key steps to create strongly typed immutable records in TypeScript with Immutable.js.
News & Events • Nov 24, 2016 Atomic Games 2016 – Connect Four Challenge! We really enjoyed hosting the Atomic Games 2016 Connect Four Challenge. This post discusses the Games and includes a number of videos from the event.
Web Apps • Nov 21, 2016 Adding Google Analytics to an AngularJS App with ngRoutes I struggled getting Google Analytics set up with my AngularJS app. Here's what worked for me, along with some links to helpful tips and articles.
Functional Programming • Nov 18, 2016 Building Better Board Games with Clojure and Gorilla REPL Using my Clojure model and Gorilla, I can run 10,000 games in seconds and quickly analyze the results. This let me build the board game I wanted.
Developer Tools • Nov 17, 2016 Using Jenkins To Perform Other Operational Tasks Here's a discussion of a couple of other ways to leverage Jenkins to simplify and automate other tasks in your software operations
UX/Design Practices • Nov 16, 2016 The Goal of User Experience Design As the term User Experience Design or UX Design is becoming more mainstream, we are on the cusp of diluting its meaning and misappropriating it.
UX/Design Practices • Nov 15, 2016 Industry Viewpoints: An Interview with Alan Cooper In September, I interviewed Alan Cooper to hear his thoughts on the state of the tech industry, and ultimately, the world.
Evolving the Industry • Nov 13, 2016 Designing Accessible Software – Breaking Down WCAG 2.0 Here, I'll break down the four categories of guidelines in WCAG 2.0 and offer some suggestions on how to plan for and evaluate them when designing software.
UX/Design Tools • Nov 10, 2016 SVGO – A Handy Command-Line Tool for Compressing SVG Images SVGO is a quick command-line tool that enables you to compress your SVGs with just a single command and performs many optimizations out of the box.
Evolving the Industry • Nov 09, 2016 Building Accessible Software – a Primer 19% of the population reports having a disability. When creating software, ensuring its accessibility is the right—and smart—thing to do.
