Articles on Events
Proposals and Processes in Your Professional Life – Carbon Five Santa Monica Talk Night October 19th
Another month, another talk night in Santa Monica! This month’s talks on October 19th cover the softer skills of a professional’s life such participating in conferences and running processes before they run into the ground. First, we are happy to have engineer and advocate Carina Zona! She’s in town to speak at the SCNA conference …
Services and Serverless – Carbon Five LA Talk Night August 17th
The micro-services push is on with developers writing simpler applications that interact with each other. But how do you deploy these services? Manage versions and discoverability? Learn two approaches from our August 17th Talk Night speakers as they cover using Docker or going completely server-less with Amazon Web Services’ Lambda! First we’ll have Samuel Chow, …
Design by Listening Inside and Out – Carbon Five LA Talk Night July 20th
Designing good UX is an iterative process that begins and ends with the same core action; listening. But who do we listen to and how? As the speakers of our July 20th design themed Talk Night will demonstrate, you listen to everyone! Whether they’re the person you believe your product is for or your fellow …
April 21st 2016 Talk Night at Carbon Five LA – Sketching for UX
Great communication is at the heart of a great team with the free and clear exchange of ideas flowing between design, development, and product. However, we’ve all had moments where the team gets “blocked” on a design; some members struggling putting their thoughts into words, others feel they have to provide high quality comps, while …
Oct 21st 2015 Talk Night at Carbon Five LA – Getting Back to (Developing) the Future
October 21st, 2015. A day historic before it ever happened. For those of you who don’t know why STOP READING THIS POST AND GO WATCH BACK TO THE FUTURE II. Go on, we’ll wait. Back? You’re welcome. As you now know, October 21st, 2015 is when everyhero Marty McFly is due to arrive. To celebrate, …
Best of Strange Loop 2015
Several members of the Carbon Five team were in St. Louis this past weekend (9/24-26) for Strange Loop. The conference focuses on the intersection of computer science and industry. As usual the conference is committed to delivering tech-focused, fantastic content which has all been made available online. Before you start wading through all those videos, however, we …
Junior Jump Extended: Acts I – IV
For the past few Sundays a group of me and other C5’ers came into the office to work on BridgeTroll with a few junior developers. We hoped that BridgeTroll would get a few highly requested features, but mostly we really hoped the junior developers would get practice and pick up some good practices about TDD, …
A panel, a talk, a workshop @ Silicon Beach Fest 2015
Silicon Beach Fest is coming up next week! If you’re in Los Angeles or can travel there, get your tickets before they’re gone. (Note: open the design guide for a special discount) Carbon Five is involved in the Design Track and we’d love to see you there. The Design Track takes place next Friday, June 26th at the Marina …
Introducing Junior Jump Extended
Hello, new developers! TL;DR * What: an agile team experience for new developers * When: 4 Sundays, July 19 – Aug 9, 10am-3pm * Where: Carbon Five SF office * Working on: an open-source project with C5 developers and designers * Using: Ruby on Rails * Learning: iterative planning, test-driven development, pairing * Application: Click …
Getting Started in Virtual Reality with JavaScript [Video]; Announcing Android Workshop
Virtual Reality is something we at Carbon Five have been playing around with the past few months, learning not only how to get started but how we can use our current toolset to work within the growing field. That’s why I was excited two weeks ago to give a talk on getting started in virtual …