UX/Design Tools • Dec 14, 2012 Why I Use Keynote as a Design Tool Keynote is a powerful, lightweight tool, and I use it for many projects — from storyboards and user scenarios to process flows and visual frameworks.
Technical Practices • Dec 07, 2012 Thinking Abstractly: Why Programmers Don’t Write Binary Code Software developers don't write in 1s and 0s. They use layers of abstraction – and so do you.
Embedded Systems • Nov 18, 2012 Things About C that Make Me Say, “WHAT?!?” I have found several aspects of C that really tripped me up. I’d like to share a few of them with you so you can avoid them!
Software Science • Nov 15, 2012 Message-Oriented Programming Designing around the messages, rather than the objects, brought my whole system into focus. If modules communicate by passing around self-contained textual data, or a simple struct
Embedded Systems • Oct 22, 2012 Getting Started with TDD for Microchip’s PICs A tutorial describing how to setup Ceedling so you can enable Test Driven Development using Microchip's PIC microcontrollers.
Web Apps • Sep 27, 2012 Auto Login During Development with dotjs How to use the dotjs browser extension to write simple user scripts, specifically one to automatically log in to a site under development.
Growing as Makers • Aug 01, 2012 Women and the Software Industry: The Truth about Stereotypes, Retention, and the Gender Gap How stereotype threat keeps women from staying in the software industry, and how we can fight it with education, encouragement, and networking.
.NET / WPF • Jul 16, 2012 Making WPF Controls Modal with Adorners How to create a transparent overlay over a WPF window "behind" a given control, using a subclass of Adorner.
Web Apps • Jul 03, 2012 Testing HTML5 Offline Features Against a Remote Server Using Capybara/Selenium Covers the process of testing a mobile app with offline caching against a remote Windows server application.
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.
Web Apps • Apr 27, 2012 These Intermittent Test Failures Will Not Stand, Man I rid a large test suite of intermittent failures. Here are some of the causes of the random failures and what I did to prevent them from failing.
