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Lean in the Enterprise: an Evening with Brant Cooper & Patrick Vlaskovits 17 Aug 2013 | 01:52 am
Please join us at Carbon Five in San Francisco on Thursday, August 29th at 6:30pm for a special evening featuring Brant Cooper & Patrick Vlaskovits as they share their unique perspective on entreprene...
Minimizing downtime when deploying to Heroku 13 Aug 2013 | 03:09 am
Heroku has become our default hosting platform for most new projects. It’s simple to deploy new rails apps, encourages some good conventions, is able to provide the services most applications need, an...
BDD Composition over Inheritance with RSpec Shared Examples 8 Aug 2013 | 02:19 am
The technique of composition over inheritience is more than simply encapsulating objects into larger entities; its really about defining models as being made up of resuable behaviors. It makes sense t...
Writing Deterministic & Performant Specs with Capybara 27 Jul 2013 | 06:13 am
Acceptance tests are a great tool for guiding [outside in testing] and defining application behavior. Unfortunately they are also notoriously slow and often brittle. At Carbon Five we usually use Capy...
Sinatra Best Practices: Part Two 29 Jun 2013 | 03:13 am
Sinatra Best Practices: Part Two In Sinatra Best Practices: Part One we saw how to break up your Sinatra application into smaller bite-size pieces. Today, we’re going to explore testing, which will a...
Sinatra Best Practices: Part One 25 Jun 2013 | 01:14 am
While Sinatra’s one-file approach may work well for your one-off, smaller application – it can quickly become a mess as you add on multiple routes, route-handlers, helpers, and configuration. So what’...
Front-End Tech Talks Next Week 21 Jun 2013 | 02:40 am
Next Wednesday, June 26th, we’re hosting a Tinderbox event featuring three tech talks on various front-end development topics. We’re excited to have a guest speaker from Cue in the line up, plus two C...
Asian Art Museum Named Finalist for International Design Communication Awards 7 Jun 2013 | 11:47 pm
Congratulations to our good friends at the Asian Art Museum, who have been named as finalists in two categories at this year’s International Design Communication Awards: “Best Exhibition Communication...
UX is a Team Sport 4 Jun 2013 | 01:36 am
User Experience Design is a Team Sport Following traditional “waterfall” methods, designers create wireframes & high-fidelity comps which are delivered to developers who build the product. The handoff...
Introducing MVAP: The Minimum Viable Awesome Product 1 Jun 2013 | 12:55 am
Dressing up the old MVP with a little spice Notes on Process: Part 1 of 3 Overview: Last week at lunch I found myself using a plate of beans and rice to explain the basic tenants of MVP. This got … Co...
