Articles by Jeremy Morony
Establishing Culture? Get Outta Town!
As Carbon Five grows, we experiment with different ways to define, elaborate, and communicate our company culture. One thing we do is organize semi-annual retreats, we call them summits, that rotate between our two main offices in San Francisco and Santa Monica. These events are, first and foremost, about people. They are a way for …
There will be SQL
I recently worked on my first Go project. As a web developer, the applications I work with are often database driven. If you are like me, you might be curious about what working with a database is like in Go. And if you're used to working with a web framework like Rails, you might be …
Open Source Ruby & JavaScript Pairing 7/14/2015
Come for an evening of open source Ruby & JavaScript pairing at Carbon Five on July 14, 2015! This workshop is an opportunity to improve your coding skills by pair programming on an open source project. Every student will be paired with a volunteer who has prior experience with the language and contributing to an …
Communication Between Collaborating Directives in Angular
Directives man! While the they’re literally the entry point into Angular development (every application contains a call to ng-app), many people starting out with Angular are hesitant to write their own because of the complexity associated with them. And directives are complex. Even a simple directive requires understanding complicated concepts like restrict, scope and link. …
Product Management For Agile Teams: Why Oh Why
At Carbon Five, we build software. We build it using Agile methods. This has worked out well for us and our clients for a long time. We recently added product management as a discipline to our team. There are some common challenges we see at C5 and we’ve been deliberately experimenting with different activities and practices around product development, …
A Strategy for Loading Page Specific JavaScript
Since the introduction of the asset pipeline, managing javascript assets in a typical rails application is pretty straight forward. You figure out some structure for organizing the files under app/assets/javascripts/, concatenate them together with some directives in application.js, and that file is most likely included in a layout and you’re on your way. But what …