Play at Work for Museums and the Web in Denver, April 17
Dana Mitroff from SFMOMA and I are running a session April 17 at Museums and the Web in Denver, CO called Play at Work: Applying Agile Methods to Museum Web Site Development. Our goal is to give...
View ArticleAlon at Web 2.0 in SF May 5 on “Blurring the Lines”
I’m excited about our panel next Wed at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco Blurring the Lines: From Human Centered Design to Customer Driven Development. We’re planning to share real world practices that...
View ArticleThanks for Celebrating 10 Years with Carbon Five
Thanks to everyone who joined us Friday night for our party at the Fort Mason Firehouse and send their well wishes in celebration our 10th year in business at Carbon Five. Thanks to James, Christian...
View ArticlePlay at Work for MCN in Austin, October 27
Dana Mitroff from SFMOMA and I are running a workshop October 27 at I/O: The Museum Inside-Out/Outside-In, the annual Museum Computer Network conference held this year in Austin, TX. The workshop is...
View ArticleMore Features != Better Product
One of our primary motivators for wanting to play an increased role in product strategy and design with our clients is that it is too easy to find ourselves being evaluated on the rate at which we...
View ArticleAnnouncing Our New Design Blog
I’m psyched to announce our new blog, d.build journal. We’ve created this blog to chronicle our adventures introducing design thinking practices to our Agile software development team. The About page...
View ArticleLog Weasel released into the wild
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...
View ArticleConfigure your gem the Rails way with Railtie
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...
View ArticleRails 3 Upgrade Tip: Invalidate Session Cookies
I recently finished working with Kathryn Aaker on upgrading Eggs, her farm CSA management software, to Rails 3. While there is a lot of good information out there on upgrading from Rails 2 to 3, we did...
View ArticleInstagram Realtime Demo with Node.js, Redis and Web Sockets
To promote and showcase the API they released in February, the folks at Instagram built and released the source for the demo app that runs http://demo.instagram.com. The app subscribes to the Instagram...
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