Articles by Alon Salant
Vinfolio Launches Collector Marketplace
Vinfolio announced today the launch of Vinfolio Marketplace where wine collectors can buy and sell wine from their private cellars. According to Steve Bachmann, Vinfolio CEO, the marketplace includes 27,000+ unique items already marked for sale – more than 170,000 bottles with over $20 million estimated retail value. That’s far more than any retailer/auction house …
2008 Charitable Giving
Every year we donate a portion of profits to organizations and causes selected by the employees of Carbon Five. We neglected to update our site with the list for 2008 until today. Personally, I am particularly psyched to be supporting the San Francisco Bike Kitchen in their move to a beautiful new space at 19th …
Twitter transcript for our #agileux20 panel at Web 2.0 Expo
I grabbed Twitter search results for our #agileux20 hashtag so we don’t lose them later. Thanks everyone for your interest, comments and questions. Unlike Twitter search, these tweets are listed oldest to most recent so you can read them as a transcript of our panel. .item_published { color: gray; font-size: .8em;} div.item { line-height:1.4em; margin: …
Join Us at Web 2.0 Expo
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 All Get Along? Human-centered Design Meets Agile Development. Our panel includes Arena Reed, Lead User …
When Worlds Collide: Conversation with Maria Giudice of Hot Studio
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. Below we respond to a few select questions. About the Presenters Maria Guidice is CEO …
Proud to Support the San Francisco Bike Kitchen
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 or build a bicycle yourself. Carbon Five is proud to be a Titanium Sponsor of …
Carbon Five and Hot Studio at SXSW in March
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 session suggests, we find our collaboration continually challenged by the differing perspectives of designer, developer …
Custom Constraints for OCMock
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 to an expected method invocation but OCMock did not provide the constraint I needed. I …
iPhone Unit Testing Toolkit
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 book but was disappointed to find no discussion of unit testing for the iPhone. So …
Carbon Five and Hot Studio at Web 2.0 Expo in April
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 in a process that seems to be contradictory in nature — and how does visual …