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To promote and showcase the API they released in February, the folks at Instagram built and released the source for the demo app that runs http://demo.instagram.com. The app subscribes to the Instagram realtime API to be notified of new photos … Continue reading
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I recently finished working with Kathryn Aaker on upgrading Eggs, her farm CSA management software, to Rails 3. While there is a lot of good information out there on upgrading from Rails 2 to 3, we did run in to … Continue reading
A couple weeks ago we announced the release of the Log Weasel gem that adds useful tracing IDs to your numerous application logs. We had the configuration down to a couple simple steps but I wanted to make it even … Continue reading
Posted in Everything Else
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Log Weasel makes it easy to trace execution of a unit of work across applications and application instances by instrumenting Rails and Resque logs to show a single transaction ID for every log entry from that unit of work. These … Continue reading
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I’m psyched to announce our new blog, d.build journal. We’ve created this blog to chronicle our adventures introducing design thinking practices to our Agile software development team. The About page explains what we’re up to: d.build journal chronicles our efforts … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Everything Else
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One of our primary motivators for wanting to play an increased role in product strategy and design with our clients is that it is too easy to find ourselves being evaluated on the rate at which we deliver product features … Continue reading
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Dana Mitroff from SFMOMA and I are running a workshop October 27 at I/O: The Museum Inside-Out/Outside-In, the annual Museum Computer Network conference held this year in Austin, TX. The workshop is Play at Work: Applying Agile Methods to Museum … Continue reading
Thanks to everyone who joined us Friday night for our party at the Fort Mason Firehouse and send their well wishes in celebration our 10th year in business at Carbon Five. Thanks to James, Christian and Josh for playing great … Continue reading
I’m excited about our panel next Wed at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco Blurring the Lines: From Human Centered Design to Customer Driven Development. We’re planning to share real world practices that help multi-disciplinary teams collaborate on creating great … Continue reading
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Tagged customer development, lean startups, Process, Speaking, user experience
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Dana Mitroff from SFMOMA and I are running a session April 17 at Museums and the Web in Denver, CO called Play at Work: Applying Agile Methods to Museum Web Site Development. Our goal is to give attendees a taste … Continue reading