Papers & Presentations

Atoms frequently share what they know in journals, at conferences, and in classrooms.

2020

Integrating Design and Development to Make Great Software View More +
- Presented by Kyle Harris, Shawn Crowley, Carl Erickson and Brittany Hunter at Agile and Beyond | February 2011
Bank of America Client Advisory Council View More +
- Presented by Mike Marsiglia | September 2020
The Intersection of Clients and Design View More +
- Presented by Taylor Vanden Hoek at WordCamp Grand Rapids 2014 | October 2014
Typography Geekout View More +
- Presented by Taylor Vanden Hoek at GRWebDev Grand Rapids | June 2011
Defining Your Culture View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at Atomic Object — Ann Arbor | January 2020

2019

Tidying Up Design View More +
- Presented by Mirabella Olszewski at MWUX 2019 | October 2019
Michigan Celebration of Women in Computing: Panel Discussion View More +
- Written by Molly Alger in Grand Valley State University, Eberhard Center | March 2019
Scaling Your Impact with Shared Ownership View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at Good for Michigan | July 2019
AIGA Case Studies View More +
- Presented by Mirabella Olszewski at AIGA Detroit | May 2019
Let's Sort Out Sorting: How to Think About Sorting like a Computer View More +
- Presented by Lydia Cupery at Beer City Code | June 2019
Mind the Gap: Bringing Design, Management, and Development Practices Together View More +
- Presented by Mike Swieton at Agile & Beyond 2019 | May 2019
Think Long Term View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at Positive Business Conference 2019 | May 2019
Amplify Your Culture of Ownership Through Employee Ownership View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at Small Giants Summit 2019 | May 2019
"Tidying Up" Information Architecture View More +
- Presented by Mirabella Olszewski at 2019 World IA Day Ann Arbor | February 2019
How to Grow as a Leader View More +
- Presented by Brittany Hunter at Michigan Celebration of Women in Computing | March 2019

2018

Seeking System Zen with Universal TypeScript View More +
- Presented by Rachael McQuater at Full Stack Toronto | November 2018
Understanding TypeScript's Structural Type System View More +
- Presented by Drew Colthorp at Strange Loop | September 2018
Making Work Matter View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at REBar GR | September 2018
The Modern Command-line Tool Stack: Pipenv, Click, and Friends View More +
- Presented by Mattie Behrens at PyOhio | July 2018
Writing Code that (Practically) Writes Itself with Typescript View More +
- Presented by Drew Colthorp and Rachael McQuater at Strange Loop | September 2019
  - Beer City Code | June 2018
The Art & Craft of Secrets: Using the Cryptographic Toolbox View More +
- Presented by Mike Swieton at Fluent | June 2018
  - Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference | April 2018
  - BeerCityCode | June 2017
  - RailsConf 2017 | April 2017
Welcome to the Dark Side: Anticipating Threats with Dark Personas View More +
- Presented by Kimberly Crawford at Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference | April 2018
Buckets of Testing – working in a multi-project environment View More +
- Presented by Phil Kirkham at Kitchener Waterloo Software Quality Assn | March 2018
Electron in the Real World View More +
- Presented by Mattie Behrens at Beer City Code | June 2018
  - SE Michigan JavaScript Meetup | March 2018
  - CodeMash | January 2018
  - SoftwareGR | November 2017
  - Michigan!/usr/group | November 2017

2017

Compassion View More +
- Presented by Kimberly Crawford at Creative Mornings Grand Rapids | September 2017
Introduction to Test-Driven Development View More +
- Presented by Jesse Hill at Grand Valley CIS Computing Club | September 2017
  - Michigan State University ACM Student Chapter | September 2017
Intro to GraphQL View More +
- Presented by Andy Peterson at BarCamp Grand Rapids | August 2017
Using Higher Order Functions to Build SQL View More +
- Presented by Andy Peterson at BarCamp Grand Rapids | August 2017
Security Hygiene for Software Professionals: Lightning Edition View More +
- Presented by Mattie Behrens at PyOhio 2017 | July 2017
"Ladies First" Women in Tech Conference View More +
- Presented by Kimberly Crawford, Nora Bouchard, Meredith Bronk, Kristian Grant, Brianna Marshall, Andrea Wallace | June 2017
How to Make Data Make Sense: Choosing the Right Visualization View More +
- Presented by Rachael McQuater at Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference | May 2017
Integrating Design and Development to Make Great Software copy View More +
- Presented by Kyle Harris, Shawn Crowley, Carl Erickson and Brittany Hunter at MSU Women in Computing | October 2012
  - Hope College | February 2015
  - Hope College | April 2017
When Things Go Wrong: A Toolkit for Handling Harassment View More +
- Presented by Rachael McQuater at Michigan Celebration of Women in Computing | April 2017
Design for the Design Illiterate View More +
- Presented by Jonah Bailey at MHacks 9 | March 2017
Why Developers Should Care About Design View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at MHacks 9 | March 2017
The Importance of Diversity in the Technology Industry View More +
- Presented by Brittany Hunter at Midwest Tech Project's G Code Gala | February 2017
Using iBeacons in iOS with Swift View More +
- Presented at CodeMash | January 2017
Testing your Swift Code View More +
- Presented at CodeMash | January 2017

2016

IoT Made Easy with Particle View More +
- Presented by Jordan Schaenzle at Embedded GR Meetup | September 2016
SLICING UP FUN - Testing Out Your Mobile Apps View More +
- Presented by Phil Kirkham at Targeting Quality 2016 | September 2016
  - Great Lakes Software Excellent Conference | May 2016
Panelist, PowerUp Tech Fair View More +
- Presented by Brittany Hunter at Power Up Technology Fair | August 2016
A Tool for Reigning in Self-Doubt View More +
- Presented at AndConf 2016 | August 2016
Command Injection, or How /bin/sh can rm -rf your server View More +
- Presented by Mattie Behrens at PyOhio | July 2016
Episode 37: Hybrid Xamarin Apps View More +
- Presented by Drew Colthorp at Gone Mobile Podcast | July 2016
Bringing Functional Concepts to OO Languages View More +
- Presented at Grand Rapids Functional Programming Meetup | June 2016
Thinking in SQL: Going beyond “find record 5” View More +
- Presented by Mike Swieton at Kansas City Developer's Conference | July 2019
  - SyntaxCon 2016 | May 2016
  - GRDevDay | March 2015
Rx - The Reactive Revolution View More +
- Presented by Patrick Bacon at SoftwareGR | April 2016
Diversity Is In Our DNA View More +
- Presented by Kimberly Crawford at West Michigan Design Week | April 2016

2015

Implementing the Elm Architecture in ClojureScript View More +
- Presented at Clojure/conj | November 2015
Atomic's Process and 5 Design Techniques You Can Try Without "Design" Experience View More +
- Presented at Grand Rapids Area Professionals for Excellence | November 2015
Careers in Software Development View More +
- Presented by Jason Porritt at Hudsonville High School Java Class | November 2015
Monads for Real People View More +
- Presented at GR Functional Programming Meetup | November 2015
Understanding DevOps View More +
- Presented at GVSU Computing Club | October 2015
Startup Grind Interview with Carl Erickson View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at Startup Grind Lansing | October 2015
The Craftsperson's Toolbelt View More +
- Presented by Jason Porritt and Drew Colthorp at GVSU Computing Club | October 2015
Deconstructing Single Page Applications View More +
- Presented at CodeMash | January 2015
  - Ann Arbor .NET Developers Group | October 2015
From Code to Production View More +
- Presented by Mike Swieton at GRWebDev | September 2015
Communicating Sequential Processes View More +
- Presented at SoftwareGR | September 2015
Configuring Laptops with Ansible View More +
- Presented at DevOps West Michigan | September 2015
Drawing the Performance of your Web App View More +
- Presented at SE Michigan JavaScript | September 2015
Team Health Checks View More +
- Presented by Mike Marsiglia at Agile Leadership Network West Michigan | June 2015
Ember Data Roller Coaster View More +
- Presented at SE Michigan JavaScript | June 2015
The Burrows-Wheeler Transform: Better Compression with a Reversible Sort View More +
- Presented at !!Con | May 2015
Intro To Python View More +
- Presented at Girl Develop It Ann Arbor | May 2015
Craftsmanship as Competitive Advantage View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at HighEdWeb Michigan | April 2015
The Right Kind of Startups View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at Techweek Detroit | April 2015
Meet Atomic Object View More +
- Presented by Jason Porritt and Mike Marsiglia at Western Michigan University | April 2015
5 Lessons from My First 5 Years in the Industry View More +
- Presented at Kendall College of Art & Design IxDA Student Chapter | March 2015
"What Is Good Design" A Research-Driven Investigation View More +
- Presented by Matt Fletcher at Speaking of Design Meetup | February 2015

2014

Sketchnotes: Harnessing the Messy Mind View More +
- Presented at AtomicCon | November 2014
Companies for Craftspeople View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at 1DEVDAY Detroit | November 2014
  - Software Craftsmanship North America | October 2011
  - Path to Craftsmanship | April 2013
Lean IT – Software Development & Deployment (Panel Discussion) View More +
- Presented by Mike Marsiglia at Information Technology Management Association | November 2014
make and redo for Building and Automation View More +
- Presented at DevOps West Michigan | October 2014
  - Recurse Center | January 2015
Configuration Management Testing with Chef View More +
- Presented at DevOps West Michigan | September 2014
Stage Fright: Don't Be Phased By Compilers View More +
- Presented at Detroit Lambda Lounge | September 2014
Content Marketing at Atomic Object View More +
- Presented by Shawn Crowley at Ann Arbor SPARK - Michigan Marketing Minds | August 2014
The Path to "Software Developer" View More +
- Presented at Samsung Mobile App Academy | June 2014
Talent in the Tech Industry View More +
- Presented by Shawn Crowley at The Right Place Investor’s Breakfast | June 2014
Extinguishing the Flame War on Quality and Automated Testing View More +
- Presented at Google IO Extended Grand Rapids | May 2014
We’re All Software Companies Now – How Software Can Help Companies Innovate & Serve Markets Better View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at Techweek Detroit | April 2014
Why execution matters for innovation – Integrating software development and Human-Centered Design View More +
- Presented by Shawn Crowley, John Wettersten (IDEO) at Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference | April 2014
Introduction to Machine Learning View More +
- Presented at Ann Arbor Craftsman Guild | April 2014
Introduction to Emmet (Lightning Talk) View More +
- Presented at South East Michigan Javascript Users | April 2014
Going Mobile: From Idea, to Development, to Final Outcome View More +
- Presented by Mike Marsiglia, Mark Van Holstyn, Josh Hulst at Mobile Technology Assn. of Michigan | March 2014
Hey, Girl. You know you want to be a software developer. View More +
- Presented at Oakland University Women in Computing Lecture Series | March 2014
Practical Abstraction View More +
- Presented by Drew Colthorp at Detroit Lambda Lounge | March 2014
14 Years of TDD: What We’ve Learned at Atomic Object View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at Agile Groupies | January 2014
Whirlwind Tour of Writing Games in Ruby View More +
- Presented at Scale 12x | January 2014
  - Southern California Linux Expo | January 2010

2013

Communicating with a Fist Full of Wires View More +
- Presented at CodeMash | December 2013
Cocoa Auto Layout – Part Deux View More +
- Presented at Ann Arbor CocoaHeads | November 2013
Inclusive & Accessible UX Practices – How Low-Fidelity Artifacts Promote Whole-Team Collaboration View More +
- Presented by Brittany Hunter at Balanced Team Conference | October 2013
The Role of UX and Usability Testing at Atomic Object View More +
- Presented by Brittany Hunter at Grand Valley State University, CIS 368 | October 2013
Kicking and Screaming: Bringing Agile Practices to the Reluctant View More +
- Presented at Agile Groupies | September 2013
Zip Code: Unpacking Data Compression View More +
- Presented at Strange Loop | August 2013
Ruby DevOps - Lightweight Configuration Management View More +
- Presented at West Michigan Ruby | August 2013
Macros! (Creating Lisp Macros with Clojure) View More +
- Presented by Drew Colthorp at Lambda Jam | June 2013
The Code that Isn’t There View More +
- Presented at QCon New York | May 2013
Ruby, Meet iPhone View More +
- Presented by Drew Colthorp at MobiDevDay Detroit | April 2013
Nurturing Top-Notch Tech Teams View More +
- Presented by Drew Colthorp and Mike Marsiglia at Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference | March 2013
Time-based Estimates Are for Suckers; Size-based Is the Way To Go View More +
- Presented at Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference | March 2013
Creating Context Scenarios View More +
- Presented at GRDevDay | February 2013

2012

Atomic’s Speculative Development Story View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at D-NewTech | November 2012
Using Types to Write Your Code for You View More +
- Presented at 1DevDay Detroit | October 2012
The Mock Object Approach to Test-Driven Development View More +
- Written by Jordan Schaenzle in Embedded.com | September 2012
Mocking Your Way to the Bottom View More +
- Presented by Jordan Schaenzle at Design East | August 2012
Data Structures: The Code That Isn’t There View More +
- Presented at Strange Loop | August 2012
Detecting Behavioral Zones in Local and Global Camera Views View More +
- Written in Machine Vision and Applications, Vol. 23, 2012 | April 2012
Node.js and Asynchronous Programming with Promises View More +
- Presented at GR Web Dev | February 2012
Visualization Is for Everyone View More +
- Presented by Matt Fletcher at GRDevDay | February 2012

2011

Big Visible Charts View More +
- Presented by Shawn Crowley, Nayan Hajratwala, Mike Schwedt, Jay Aho, Matt Green at Michigan Agile Enthusiasts | November 2011
JRuby, Rails, and Torquebox View More +
- Presented by Matt Fletcher at GRDevDay | October 2011
Building Ruby Applications – A Walkthrough View More +
- Presented by Mike Swieton at GR Dev Day | October 2011
Happy Makers Make Happy Customers View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at GR Dev Day | October 2011
Planning for Scale View More +
- Presented by Drew Colthorp, Patrick Foley at Business of Software | September 2011
Four Atoms: Four Different Web Development Frameworks View More +
- Presented by Micah Alles, Mike Swieton, Jason Porritt, John Van Enk at GRWebDev | September 2011
Managing Balanced Team Projects View More +
- Presented by Shawn Crowley at Balanced Team Conference | August 2011
Growing Your Embedded Application Organically with Ceedling and Friends View More +
- Presented at AgileConf | July 2011
Lightweight Project Tracking with Burn Charts View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson, Mike Marsiglia, Burn Charts at SoftwareGR | May 2011
Between Freelance and Corporate America: Sustainable Companies for Smart and Creative People View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at TEDx Traverse City | April 2011
Ruby for Desktop Applications? Yes we can. View More +
- Presented by Matt Fletcher at Grand Rapids Java User Group | April 2011
Trash Your RFP: How to Select the Best Vendor View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference | March 2011
Way Better Error Handling in C Using CException View More +
- Presented at Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference | March 2011
Extreme Design: The Secrets to Successful Design Pairing View More +
- Presented at Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference | March 2011
Embedded Test-Driven Development in C with Ruby View More +
- Presented by Matt Fletcher at Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference | March 2011

2010

HTML5 Offline View More +
- Presented by Patrick Bacon at GRWebDev | December 2010
Crafting Your Mobile Strategy View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at Michigan Emerging | October 2010
30-50% of You Are Lousy Estimators – Here’s How to Get Better View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at 1DevDay Detroit | September 2010
Sustainability = f(idea, execution, culture) View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at TEDx Grand Valley | July 2010
Running a Ruby Application with jruby-complete View More +
- Presented by Matt Fletcher at West Michigan Ruby Users Group | February 2010

2009

Introduction to Flex View More +
- Presented at Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference | October 2009
The Agile Alternative View More +
- Presented by Mike Swieton at Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference | October 2009

2008

Agile: It’s More Than Just Makeup View More +
- Presented by Mike Swieton at Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference | October 2008
Delivering Software Certainty View More +
- Presented by Shawn Crowley at Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference | October 2008
Agile Project Management for Embedded (or Burning Your Gantt Charts) View More +
- Written in Embedded Systems Conference, Boston | September 2008
Feature-Driven Design Using TDD and Mocks View More +
- Written in Embedded Systems Conference, Boston | September 2008
Effective Rails Testing Practices View More +
- Presented by Mike Swieton at Windy City Rails | August 2008
Refactoring Your Rails Application View More +
- Presented by Drew Colthorp, Zach Dennis at RailsConf | May 2008

2007

Enhancing Embedded Development with Ruby View More +
- Presented at RubyConf | October 2007
An Automated Mock Object Generator for C++ View More +
- Presented at Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference | October 2007
Convincing the Executive: Economic Arguments for Agile Software Development View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference | October 2007
Evolving into Embedded Development View More +
- Written by Matt Fletcher, William Bereza, Mike Karlesky in Agile Conference | July 2007
Interaction-Based Testing: Beyond Classical Unit Testing View More +
- Presented at Dr. Dobb’s Architecture & Design World | June 2007
Improving the Embedded Development Process View More +
- Presented by Matt Fletcher, Bill Bereza at O’Reilly Open Source Convention | June 2007
Mocking the Embedded World: Practical TDD, Continuous Integration, and Design Patterns View More +
- Presented by Matt Fletcher at Embedded Systems Conference | April 2007
Mocking the Embedded World: Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration, and Design Patterns View More +
- Written in Embedded Systems Conference, Silicon Valley | March 2007
Presenter First – Big, Complex, and Tested? Just Say "When" View More +
- Written by Carl Erickson in Better Software Magazine | January 2007

2006

Fostering Excellence in IT Services through Quality and Innovation View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference | September 2006
Perils and Pitfalls of Agile Adoption View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at Software Development Best Practices, Boston | August 2006
Presenter First: Organizing Complex GUI Applications for Test-Driven Development View More +
- Written by Carl Erickson, Micah Alles, Mike Marsiglia, Brian Harleton (X-Rite), Greg Pattinson (Burke Porter Machinery), Curt Stienstra (Burke Porter Machinery) in Agile 2006 | June 2006
Effective Test-Driven Development for Embedded Software View More +
- Written by Carl Erickson, Michael Karlesky, William Bereza in IEEE Electro/Information Technology Conference | April 2006

2005

Agile Intro + Story-Driven Development View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at XP West Michigan (Now SoftwareGR) | December 2005
Acceptance Test Automation to Support Story-Driven Development: From Customer Stories to Greenbar View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson, Karlin Fox at Indianapolis Quality Assurance Assn. Conference | September 2005
Sane Software Development View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at Smith Aerospace | February 2005

2004

Agile Project Management in Extreme Programming Projects View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at Project Management Institute, Western Michigan Chapter | April 2004

2003

Make Haste, Not Waste: Automated System Testing View More +
- Written by Carl Erickson, Mike Marsiglia, Micah Alles, Ralph Palmer (Burke Porter Machinery) in XP Agile Universe | June 2003

2002

Better Living Through Extreme Programming View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at Assn. of Information Technology Professionals | September 2002
OO Testing: From Academia to the Real World View More +
- Presented by Carl Erickson at Uppsala University | April 2002