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...
Hello from London!
Am currently enjoying the talks at Rails Underground 2009 in London and had the pleasure to be one of the first speakers at the conference. My talk covered a collection of what our team considers best practices. Best practices that aid in the successful launch of a web application and covered a few...
Earlier today, a friend working on a project asked me how we approached routes on our website. If you take a quick peak at our website, you’ll see that we have URLs like so:
I couldn’t remember where I came across this before and wasn’t quickly finding it in the Ruby...
It’s time to find my passport again…
I’ve been invited to speak at Rails Underground, which is being held in London, UK from July 24-25th.
My talk, which is tentatively titled, “Launching Ruby on Rails projects, a checklist”,...
As if delivering projects wasn’t hard enough. Delivering projects on time is even harder. As practitioners, we’re all responsible for measuring up the obstacles in front of us and are accountable to those measurements. At least, we should be.
One of those measurements is time. Time is a funny thing. People have a lot of
If you follow me on twitter, you might have heard that we launched a little project that we’ve been cooking up at Planet Argon. (news post)
HeyBrainstormr is a lightweight web application that we created so that we could start a brainstorm on a specific topic and solicit ideas from each other....
It’s been over 83,520 minutes since I made the switch from using mongrel as my development environment web server to Phusion Passenger. I’ve been extremely impressed with it. Our team has all switched over and haven’t really hit any obstacles in the transition.
Since some people asked me to let them know how this...
While scanning through Allison’s copy of Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services
The problem with software prototypes
It seems to be widely understood that industrial design and mechanical engineering prototypes—from paperclips and tape to polished...We’ll be posting some more updates on the Planet Argon blog in near future, but I wanted to invite you all to check out our new site at http://planetargon.com/. The last site was launched over three years ago.. we thought it was time for a refresh. :-)
Alex, Director of Deployment Services, has been hard at work helping us get our new suite of hosting plans out for Rails Boxcar, a deployment environment that we’ve designed to help you get your Ruby on Rails applications running as painless and quickly as possible. With this new announcement, we’ve rebuilt the Boxcar image...
Calling all Ruby on Rails developers and system administrators.
The team at Planet Argon is hoping to collect some information about how everyone is currently managing the deployment and hosting of their Ruby on Rails applications. We are inviting you all to participate in the Rails Hosting in 2009 survey, which consists of nearly...
So… Rails and Merb are going to be merged into Rails 3. (link)
Has hell frozen over?
(it has in Portland the last week)
I’m curious about how the revised core team will incorporate the library-agnostic view points into Rails without increasing the complexity for configuration. For example, being able to use a different...
