Monthly Archives: February 2009

Stripes: A Successful First Project

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Christian Nelson

We’re wrapping up a project that I’ve been leading since September and I’ve been reflecting on some of my decisions. Some of this reflection might be interesting to other developers. There are a few things on my mind, but I’ll … Continue reading →

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Carbon Five and Hot Studio at SXSW in March

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Alon Salant

Maria Giudice from Hot Studio and I are speaking Sunday, March 13 at SXSW on When Worlds Collide: Human Centered Design Meets Agile Development. We’ve worked with Hot on many successful projects over the years. As the name of our … Continue reading →

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More fun with Java Concurrency: BlockingQueue

Posted on February 23, 2009 by Christian Nelson

I’ve written about Java 5 concurrency in the past and I’ve recently had the opportunity to make use of another one of the concurrency constructs: the BlockingQueue. The Problem There’s a problem we’ve seen a few times in the last … Continue reading →

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Custom Constraints for OCMock

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Alon Salant

In my last post on unit testing iPhone development I introduced a couple helpful tools including OCMock, a mock objects implementation for Objective-C. I recently came across a scenario where I needed to make an assertion on an argument passed … Continue reading →

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iPhone Unit Testing Toolkit

Posted on February 13, 2009 by Alon Salant

As we get in to developing iPhone/Touch applications at Carbon Five, we obviously want to bring over all our best agile practices including test driven development (TDD). I’ve been bootstrapping with the beta version of the Pragmatic iPhone SDK Development … Continue reading →

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Carbon Five and Hot Studio at Web 2.0 Expo in April

Posted on February 2, 2009 by Alon Salant

Maria Giudice from Hot Studio and I have organized a panel called Can’t We Just All Get Along? Human-centered Design Meets Agile Development for Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco this coming April. How can designers and developers work together … Continue reading →

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