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Carbon Five has been working with The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy on Bedsider.org, a free support network for birth control. Bedsider is nominated for a Webby People’s Voice Award in the Health Website category. You can … Continue reading →

Most of the posts here are about technology or process. While it’s probably easy to imagine what’s happening behind the scenes at Carbon Five through what we post, I’m going to fill in the gaps for those readers who want … Continue reading →

We have a posse of Carbon Five folk leaving tomorrow for SXSW.  If you’re going, check out our sessions: Play at Work: Agile Games for Productive Teams Friday 3:30 Get together with other conference attendees and play games in this … Continue reading →

Like most developers I previously wrote off RSpec’s view specs entirely and instead decided to exclusively use Cucumber to test drive my views. But after reading the chapter on view specs in the recent RSpec book I decided to give … 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 →

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 →

There’s all kinds of interesting stuff out there and we try to keep on top of it.  We used to send email to an internal list to distribute interesting things to other Carbon Fivers.  For the last couple of weeks … Continue reading →