Posts Tagged ‘ PLANET ARGON ’

Just a quick update to let you know that I’ll be moving more of my business-related topics to the Planet Argon Blog. I invite you to subscribe to that feed as well. :-)p.s. We just published Episode 4 of the Planet Argon Podcast, which was on the topic of Hiring designers. ...
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Welcome to what seems like my tenth installment (actually, it’s the fourth) of showing you how I setup my development environment on a fresh OSX install. In this case, I’m actually getting a MacBook setup for a new employee with Snow Leopard.Over the years, I’ve evolved these following steps and they’ve helped our team...
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For those of you who didn’t make it to Rails Underground in July to witness my mind-blowing talk, Launching Ruby on Rails projects , it appears that Skills Matter has finally posted a video of it online. :-)The sound levels are really low… but hopefully you’ll find it helpful.You can also view the slides.Related...
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Earlier this week, we published Episode 3 of the Planet Argon Podcast. In this latest episode we responded to one of the ideas someone in the audience asked on this brainstormr, which was, “How do you manage bugs?”We had a round table discussion about how we classify and prioritize bugs with our clients, ticketing...
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Earlier this week our new podcast was approved and is now available in the Apple iTunes Store. We’re also soliciting topic ideas for future episodes on brainstormr.We posted Episode 2, The Letter Scotch, yesterday for your enjoyment. In this episode, we covered a handful of web browser tools that we use (and detest) to...
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We’re currently waiting to get our new podcast approved by Apple, but have uploaded episode 1 to tumblr in the meantime.In this short episode, we cover the following topics: Authlogic Machinist Faker LESS (for CSS) Textorize The 8-Hour Rails Code AuditsWe’re planning to keep this short and focused to a few topics. Once it’s posted on iTunes, we’ll let you...
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While our team is typically focused on larger client and internal projects, we do get an opportunity to assist businesses on a much smaller scale. Whether this be through retainer-based consulting or through code audits, we have seen a lot of Ruby on Rails code over what has nearly been… five years!? We’ve been...
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We’ve been doing some early (or late… if you’re a half-full kind of person) spring cleaning on some of our projects. One of the small projects, flash_message_conductor, which we released last year as a plugin is now a gem. We’ve been moving away from using plugins in favor of gems as we like locking...
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Yesterday, the Rails team released 2.3.4, which includes standardized way for loading seed data into your application so that you didn’t have to clutter your database migrations.I noticed a few comments on some blogs where people were asking how to use this new feature, so here is a quick runthrough a few ways that...
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Now that the cat is out of the bag, I can share some recent news with you. Earlier today, we announced that Blue Box Group had acquired Rails Boxcar, our kickass deployment solution for Ruby on Rails applications.Our team has been offering hosting services for over six years. When I made the decision to...
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