Papers & Presentations

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

2018

Writing Code that (Practically) Writes Itself with Typescript View More +
- Presented by Drew Colthorp and Rachael McQuater at 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 Wolting 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 Matt 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 Wolting 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 Matt Behrens at PyOhio 2017 | July 2017
"Ladies First" Women in Tech Conference View More +
- Presented by Kimberly Wolting, 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 View More +
- Presented by Shawn Anderson, Kyle Harris, Shawn Crowley, Carl Erickson and Brittany Hunter at Agile and Beyond | February 2011
  - 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 by Matt Nedrich at CodeMash | January 2017
Testing your Swift Code View More +
- Presented by Matt Nedrich 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 Matt Behrens at PyOhio | July 2016
Episode 37: Hybrid Xamarin Apps View More +
- Presented by Drew Colthorp and Shawn Anderson 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 GRDevDay | March 2015
  - SyntaxCon 2016 | May 2016
Rx - The Reactive Revolution View More +
- Presented by Patrick Bacon at SoftwareGR | April 2016
Diversity Is In Our DNA View More +
- Presented by Kimberly Wolting 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 by Justin Kulesza 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
Math with Python: NumPy vs SciPy View More +
- Presented at Ann Arbor PyLadies | April 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
Intro to Refactoring View More +
- Presented at Ann Arbor PyLadies | February 2015

2014

Sketchnotes: Harnessing the Messy Mind View More +
- Presented at AtomicCon | November 2014
Companies for Craftspeople – 1DevDay Detroit 2014 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 by Justin Kulesza 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 by Matt Nedrich at Ann Arbor Craftsman Guild | April 2014
Introduction to Emmet (Lightning Talk) View More +
- Presented at South East Michigan Javascript Users | April 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
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
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 by Shawn Anderson 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 by Mike Woelmer 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 by Justin Kulesza, Dave Groulx 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 and Greg Williams at Design East | August 2012