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Iron Gaming Launches Rezli
Our client, Iron Gaming, announced the release of Rezli today at the 2050 Events Daytona Conference. Iron Gaming is a major player in eSports tournaments, offering live streaming of gaming events that have developed a massive following in the gaming community. They came to Carbon Five looking to develop an online product that would suit …
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 …
Flexing the Rules of Material Design
5 Steps to quickly differentiate your Android app design while being Material Design compliant.
User and events tracking for early products – part 1
It’s rarely too early to instrument a web or mobile app with user and event tracking services. Sure, it’s ideal to only track the metrics needed to answer specific questions, yet it’s not often the case that those questions are known during the early stages of product development. It’s been our experience that we can …
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 …
Don’t Fear the Rebase: Git Garbage Collection and You
At Carbon Five, we work with developers of all experience levels. One source of fear and uncertainty I’ve seen at all levels is Git, the primary source control system used by our teams. Fear of losing work due to mishandled merge resolution, resetting branches or interactive rebasing is keeping developers from using some of the …
New Faces At Carbon Five
Carbon Five offices have seen some plucky new faces recently. We’re happy to have four amazing interns lend their excitement, passion, and creativity to our office this summer. Lee & Treyce join us from California College of the Arts (CCA), Abiel joins us from Stanford and is a fellow of CODE2040, and Devin joins us …
I/O 2015 Thoughts
This year Google I/O was reported to have 23% women in attendance (which was up from 20% in 2014 and 8% in 2013). It was my second year attending Google I/O, and both times were through the Women Techmakers (WT) program, which is behind the incredible boost in numbers. It’s pretty rare to …
CliffsNotes for Startups
Clients often ask us if there’s anything they should read about product development to get a head start on working with us. Here’s a list of some of our favorite books, with pointers to the best parts for our busiest clients (Brian, we’re looking at you). These recommendations apply to any entrepreneur not just to our clients.
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 …