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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?

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