A very creative plug-in that turns your 'Back to Top' buttons into a delightful, unexpected experience.
Created by Tim Holman.
The 'Back to Top' Elevator
22 Apr 2015
Skoshbox relaunches on new platform
9 Apr 2015
Skoshbox delivers a nicely curated box filled with Japanese snacks each month and sells individual products. In late 2014, Skoshbox selected Planet Argon to help launch them on a new platform.
Sending actions to your Ember Components.
8 Apr 2015
We ran into an issue requiring us to send an action from our Ember controller to a component rendered within its template. A surprisingly difficult task due to the compartmentalization of Ember's Components, and the frameworks emphasis on "data down, actions up".
Fortunately we ran into this post by Sam Selikoff and the ember add-on it has inspired, ember-component-inbound-actions.
We didn't end up using the add-on due to the overall simplicity of the solution at hand, but it was so good we just had to share!
Thanks Sam!
How to create an 'off' click event - the Ember way
6 Apr 2015
We’ve been working on a project recently in which our designs called for a hover dropdown menu that did not close until the user clicks outside of the drop-down. Creating something like this in jQuery and in a Ruby on Rails app would have been a no-brainer. But I quickly discovered it wasn’t going to be quite so straightforward in our new Ember app.
Planet Argon loves Friends of Trees
6 Apr 2015
A few of us spent Saturday helping Friends of Trees plant trees in NE Portland.
Vinyl Wall Graphics via Sticker Mule
2 Apr 2015
Our friends at Sticker Mule recently began selling wall graphics. Here’s our first.
Badass Users Book Trailer
16 Mar 2015
Badass Users Book Trailer from Seriouspony on Vimeo.
Kathy Sierra put together her own book trailer using stock videos.
Embrace the jargon
16 Mar 2015
Don't discourage jargon use in your domain. Embrace it. Teach it. Invent it. Help your users learn it and find chances to use it.
For years, I have been convincing myself that we need to speak in non-industry terms with our clients so that we don't alienate them. Now I am left wondering if we've just created a new problem.
Portland: Opportunities and Challenges as an Evolving Tech Hub
13 Mar 2015
in general the report found that young and educated people are attracted to Portland because it’s a 'place where people come to live, recreate, and do business—differently.'
There isn't a week that goes by that I don't wonder if I would have been able to help build a company like Planet Argon in another city. There's something in the water here.
Before Dawn: Don’t fear the Sunrise
5 Feb 2015
A short story about how a seemingly harmless blog post by the folks at 37signals may have impacted the future of Planet Argon…or maybe it didn’t.