Monthly Archives: March 2009

Join Us at Web 2.0 Expo

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Alon Salant

Maria Giudice from Hot Studio and I are following up our Core Conversation at SXSW last month on agile development and human-centered design with a panel Thursday at 11am at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco titled Can’t We Just … Continue reading →

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SmartyCard Launches!

Posted on March 18, 2009 by admin

Our client SmartyCard launched in early March at the DEMO conference picking up the People’s Choice Award.  SmartyCard is a learning site that offers kids rewards for completing a variety of interactive learning games.  Kids are able to ‘learn, earn … Continue reading →

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Agile Modeling Techniques for Story Writing

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Rob Pak

At Carbon Five, all our projects begin with ‘customer facing’ meetings focused around determining scope and expectations. A core component of these early meetings involves one or more story writing sessions. The end goal of story writing sessions is to … Continue reading →

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Convenient CSS and Javascript in Ruby on Rails

Posted on March 8, 2009 by Andy Peterson

I get tired of hunting through a hierarchy of folders and files, from the views to the public folder, to locate a certain CSS or Javascript file. It’d be convenient to have them right with the markup, but embedding these … Continue reading →

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When Worlds Collide: Conversation with Maria Giudice of Hot Studio

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Alon Salant

Maria and I have already started our SXSW Core Conversation When Worlds Collide: Human Centered Design Meets Agile Development two weeks before the event in Austin. The Core Conversation format is a speaker or two in conversation with the audience. … Continue reading →

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Continuous Integration and Build Promotion

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Christian Nelson

We have a build server and we practice continuous integration on all of our projects. In fact, it’s pretty much the first thing we set up after version control. We’re feedback junkies. It became especially apparent while working on a … Continue reading →

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Proud to Support the San Francisco Bike Kitchen

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Alon Salant

This week the San Francisco Bike Kitchen opens its doors at its new location in the Mission at 650H Florida Street. The SFBK is an entirely volunteer run organization that provides the tools, parts and instruction you need to fix … Continue reading →

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Compass, the 960 CSS framework, and Semantic Markup

Posted on March 2, 2009 by admin

Finding your way to meaningful grid layouts using the Compass framework My problem: Grid layouts – crazy, sexy, cool. Presentation classes in my semantic markup – neither sexy nor cool, and arguably crazy. These days I can’t help but notice … Continue reading →

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