Web Apps • Nov 23, 2015 Unit Testing Frontend Network Requests Asynchronous data loading is great for frontend apps—but it's difficult for unit tests. Your app is depending on a network that doesn’t exist during tests.
Culture • Nov 19, 2015 What Makes Atomic Object Different? A Six-Month Retrospective I moved from the automotive-embedded space at a very large company to the consumer-facing web/mobile domain at a small company.
Culture • Nov 16, 2015 Brittany Hunter on Tinkering, Learning Latin, and Design as Problem Solving Brittany Hunter, a software consultant and designer at Atomic Object, talks about tinkering, learning Latin, and design as problem solving.
News & Events • Nov 04, 2015 Atomic Games 2015 – Othello Challenge! We held our first Atomic Games — a one-day programming competition where college students created boardgame AI's and competed for prizes.
Project & Team Management • Oct 29, 2015 Four Types of Software Projects & Their Risks If we categorize software projects by the clients' situation, every type of project has risks, benefits, and a few big challenges.
DevOps & System Admin. • Oct 22, 2015 Linux Utilities for Diagnostics Linux utilities that make it easier to quickly pinpoint issues when investigating and resolving problems on Linux and other Unix-like systems.
Personal Optimization • Oct 16, 2015 How to Ace the Non-Technical Part of an Atomic Interview Technical skills are important, but fitting with our team-focused consulting culture matters a lot at Atomic Object.
DevOps & System Admin. • Oct 12, 2015 Docker Basics for Local Development Docker can also be a very useful tool for local development, especially when it comes to making repeatable builds and environments faster and easier.
Personal Optimization • Oct 04, 2015 Get Things Done with GTD A summary of the Getting Things Done (GTD) approach to reducing stress and improving productivity, and some tools for implementation.
Exploratory Testing • Sep 27, 2015 More Ways to Test – Is it a Good Story? In software testing, you could focus on the layout. But you should also look at the other qualities, the aspects that hold the "story" together.
Ruby on Rails • Sep 26, 2015 Diving into Existing Rails Apps Trying to wade into an existing project is frustrating. When working with Rails, I've found a few avenues of attack that help me jump in.
Developer Tools • Sep 25, 2015 Comparing Node.js Debug Options Comparing the built-in Node debugger, Node Inspector, and IDEs for debugging Node.js apps.
