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Carbon would like to welcome One Thing Well to the Code & Dev Circle. The blog is named after Doug McIlroy’s summation of the Unix philosophy: “…do one thing and do it well”, and as such is dedicated to showcasing simple and useful applications, tools and utilities across all platforms.

One Thing Well is brought to you by freelance journalist Jack Mottram, who lives in Glasgow, Scotland and Jack writes for a range of newspapers and magazines. He also works for web design, development and hosting shop Surly, where the team create attractive, accesible websites.

Everything featured on ‘One Thing Well’, discovered by Jack or submitted by its readers, displays focused design and usability. Similarly, Carbon’s focused ads bring relevant, fantastic brands to ‘One Thing Well’ and its engaged readers.

Carbon would like to welcome Perfection Kills to the Code & Dev Circle. This blog, written by developer Juriy Zaytsev, serves as a place for him to explore JavaScript by example, delving deep into code to see what works, what doesn’t and why. 

Russian-born Juriy is now based in New York City and works as a freelance web developer, as well as a core developer for the Prototype.js JavaScript Library. He is a self-confessed junkie for clean code, and spends much of his work taming various aspects of JavaScript, focused on making it semantic and accessible. 

Through his simple, focused blog design, Juriy concentrates on in-depth analysis of his code, something which he is clearly very passionate about. Carbon now provides great brands to compliment his content-rich blog. 

Carbon is pleased to welcome Alex Young to the Code & Dev Circle. On his site Alex presents his current commercial and personal projects, alongside a blog where he writes articles about programming, posts about industry events, and shares his thoughts on current technology trends.  

By day, Alex is the lead developer and designer for Reuters Real Estate, but after hours he is the software engineer for his London-based web application firm Helicoid. Through his company Alex has built five highly-useful Ruby on Rails apps, including Helipad, an online note-taking application; time-tracking software TikTrac; and Deadline, “the simplest calendar ever made”. He also writes at DailyJS, a popular JavaScript programming blog.

Alex shares his work and life as a programmer through a simple, focused site. His fantastic content is now complemented by similarly focused Carbon ads, bringing awesome brands to his readers.

Carbon is pleased to welcome The Russians Used a Pencil to the Design Circle. This blog celebrates simplicity in design, and serves as a source of inspiration to everyone from engineers and programmers to designers and architects. 

‘The Russians Used a Pencil’ is brought to you by New York designer Dan Provost. Currently working as a motion graphic designer for Pitchfork Media, Dan is also the co-founder, with Tom Gerhardt, of Studio Neat. Their company is focused on “making simple things and making things simple”, and their first product is The Glif, a elegant tripod mount and stand for the iPhone 4. 

‘The Russians Used a Pencil’ brings smart design insight to readers of the Carbon network. Carbon supplements this great content with similarly simple yet effective ads. 

Mohawk Fine Papers is the largest manufacturer of premium papers in North America. With an incredible range of products available online including brochures, letterpress papers, business cards and more, Mohawk will meet your print requirements.

Based in New York, Mohawk Fine Papers is a company with a long history. Founded in 1878, Mohawk now operates six modern machines with over 175,000 tonnes capacity, creating fine paper distributed to over 50 countries worldwide. Alongside its reputation for quality products, service and innovation, Mohawk is known throughout the industry for its high environmental standards and sustainable practices. 

In a world moving towards more and more digital products, Mohawk prove that there is still a place for high-quality physical items, and that print is definitely not dead. Mohawk now brings these products through Carbon’s similarly high-quality ads across the network.

Carbon would like to welcome Interstate to the Code & Dev Circle. This handy application allows businesses and developers to keep on top of development tasks by creating “roadmaps”. These step-by-step overviews allow teams to see how they’re getting on with current projecta, and what needs to be done to complete them.

Interstate is brought to you by BakedCode, a web app company based in Birmingham, England. The app is designed to help teams organize their workflow, with features such as progress updates, staff management and due dates to keep everyone on schedule. Users can view the Interstate roadmap to see how the BakedCode team is progressing with new features, such as an iPhone version of Interstate currently in development. 

Interstate is a highly-useful app for developers and designers wishing to manage their work. Now part of the Code & Dev Circle, the Interstate site is now supplemented with fantastic ads from Carbon for other great brands its users will love. 

Carbon is pleased to welcome Doodlers Anonymous to the Art & Culture Circle. This site serves as a permanent home for spontaneous doodles submitted by its readers, and celebrates the immediate nature of doodles and sketches drawn on everything from notebooks to napkins and torn receipts.

Doodlers Anonymous is brought to you by OKAT, founder of street art intervention site Are You Generic?, along with designer Jamie Tao and developer Hugo Seijas. Their site brings together a wide range of artwork and promotes the best featured artists and their work. Readers can get involved by submitting their own artwork, or by becoming a member to get involved in the community. They can also buy some great doodle merchandise from the online store.

‘Doodlers Anonymous’ brings fantastic user-submitted artwork to the Carbon network, which supplements this great content with awesome brands that the art community will love. 

Prefinery is a service that allows users to create a private beta for their web or desktop applications within minutes. By taking away the stress and hassle involved with launching software, Prefinery improves beta testing and makes it easy to collect customer feedback through surveys, comments, feature requests and bug reports. 

Prefinery was founded by Justin Britten, a software developer and entrepreneur based in Austin, TX. He has created not just a powerful and useful service but also a strong community of hand-picked professional testers to ensure quality feedback for Prefinery’s clients. The data that they supply through testing helps clients prioritize features and better understand their audiences. Users wishing to apply to join the team as a beta tester can apply here. 

Helping you get the word out for your product quickly and efficiently, Prefinery allows users to concentrate on pushing forward and focus on supporting new users and making their software better. This truly valuable service is now brought to the readers of Carbon’s network. 

TripIt is the best way to organize and share your travel plans. Users simply forward their travel confirmation emails to TripIt, which then automatically creates itineraries with plans, maps, directions and other critical information. 

TripIt is based in San Francisco, CA, and was founded back in 2006 by Gregg Brockway, Scott Hintz and Andy Denmark. The trio bring together many years of travel and technology experience to solve the problems they have experienced firsthand when trying to organize details and make travel plans. Their TripIt service is free to use, so everyone can benefit, and there is also a Pro version available with over double the features of the basic service. 

With the growth of the Internet and the proliferation of online travel services, TripIt harnesses that technology to simplify the Internet travel experience, and brings a truly valuable product to Carbon’s readers. 

Carbon would like to welcome the blog of Damian Nicholson to the Code & Dev Circle. Damian uses his site to share his experiences in the web design and development industry, alongside thoughts and comments on current trends, and helpful coding tips. 

Currently living in the North-East of England, Damian works for City Electrical Factors as part of their web team, and has previously worked for award-winning digital agency Orange Bus. He specialises in Drupal and Ruby on Rails, aswell as jQuery front-end development. Along with writing about his work on his site, Damian shares his code through GitHub. 

His simple, clean site allows Damian to focus on his useful and interesting content, which is now supplemented by fantastic brands through Carbon’s gorgeous ads.