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Matt is alive. Feel free to introduce yourself.

I’m excited to announce that Matt, our brand new little web app is live! He lives at TheMattinator.com. I’d like to say a massive thank you to the Carsonified Team … * Keir and Elliott - You did amazing. Especially since you...


Matt Week - Day Two Time Lapse

Catch a whole day of building Matt in four minutes! We filmed the team again for Day Two of Matt week, sped it up and added another cool track. All i can say is we really need to work on our postures! Matt Week - Day Two Time Lapse from Elli...


Matt Week - Day three and where we’re at

Day three is upon us. We have had a few challenges along the way but all of the team are making progress. There is a bit of an air of pandemonium, but all the team are weighing in with a tremendous effort. We are getting an enormously valuable ins...


A whole day of web app development in four minutes

We filmed several Carsonites and their screens for the whole first day of Matt Week, sped it up, added a track from MGMT … and here’s what you get. Matt Week - Day One Time Lapse from Carsonified on Vimeo. Matt Week - Day Tw...


Matt Week - A chat about design challenges and decisions

In this interview, I chat with Mike (our totally rad designer) about why he made certain design decisions, color choices and the direction the logo is taking. Matt Week - Design Chat from Carsonified on Vimeo. We’ve realized that the l...


Matt Week - A chat with the developers and Day One recap

Wow, Day One is over and it was really exciting (and pretty hectic). Here are some interesting points: * Mike has only come up with one logo idea, as we don’t have time to discuss several different ideas * Keir and Elliott are using a Python...


Matt Week - Videos

Jo (aka Joleeen) just finished interviewing the team about Matt and what’s going on this week. Carsonified Matt Week - Day 1 from Carsonified on Vimeo.


Matt Week - Logo ideas and deciding who does what

Matt week has officially begun at Carsonified HQ and it’s pretty insane around here already. We broke down the different jobs like this: * Development: Keir and Elliott * Design: Mike * Blogging/photos/video: Ryan and Jo * Copywriting: Louis...


Two new Carson Workshops

There is an exciting opportunity for developers to come to the Carsonified office and hone their skills in Ruby on Rails and PHP5. We are offering one day workshops on 30th and 31st of July, lead by Adam Cooke of aTech Labs and our own Keir Whitak...


Ikea Summer Sale 2008 Shopping List

I hope you all had a chance to make it out to this Summer’s 2008, “Ikea Summer Sale,” but if you haven’t, I wanted to share my shopping list with you. In total, we spent $1300, including everything for delivery and all, and...


Why Objective-J, Cappuccino and SproutCore are completely changing the web app industry

I’ve been reading a lot about Ojective-J, Cappuccino and SproutCore and I believe these new frameworks are going to have a huge impact on the web app industry and user experience on the web. So what are they? Objective-J is a clone of Object...


Business Plan 101: How to Generate Revenue Early & Often

When writing a business plan, you want to be able to prove to potential investors that your startup can produce revenue early, and often. Business plans are notoriously tossed out months after being completed, but the core elements of the business...


Starting an Internet Business? Bring on a Developer as a Co-Founder

Starting a new business and have no technical prowess? Looking to write a business plan but need a website first? Now you’re stuck using a consultant to build your startup empire? You may be able to limp by initially with an elancer.com con...


Slick Twitter Client Using Fluid and Hahlo (with Growl) - MacTips

Slick Twitter Client Using Fluid and Hahlo (with Growl) - MacTips: Holy crap! My new Twitter client. For like 10 minutes. Until the next one comes along.


Return the Dock to the Old Style - MacTips

Return the Dock to the Old Style - MacTips: Take Leopard’s dock back to a Tiger style doc.


Macworld | Mac OS X Hints | Select hidden drop-down menu choices via keyboard

Macworld | Mac OS X Hints | Select hidden drop-down menu choices via keyboard: Finally I can find out how to use the keyboard for awesome nav like I can in Windows. :) Speedy productivity, here I come.