4 Mar 2014
In a project we’re currently working on, we created a form builder that could publish complex forms that include features such as:
4 Mar 2014
Several months ago, our team left Campfire and entered HipChat for all internal conversations project, team, or cute kitten related. There are a few great things about using HipChat, but one of my favorite’s as a designer is this; adding a swatch of any HEX code. This feature not only provides my teammate with the code to add for a color, but also provides more context when we are collaborating. It’s a small thing, but sometimes, the small things just make life a little better.
What are the small things you like about the tools you use?
3 Mar 2014
An outsider may venture to assume that Robby Russell, the founder and chief evangelist at Planet Argon spends his every waking moment helping foster creativity among his team whilst ensuring that he helps make things happen in the studio. While that most definitely is the case, there is much more to him than just that.
While those of of us who get the opportunity to work with him on a daily basis know and understand his drive to be an active participant in the local community, his philanthropic passions are easily overshadowed by his extensive Ruby on Rails resume / endeavors.
I'd suggest you take a look at the latest interview that Omakase conducted with Robby. This interview sheds some light on Robby and his true philanthropic passions.
3 Mar 2014
David Smith shares his thoughts on mobile apps prompting people to enable push notifications.
28 Feb 2014
Topics discussed in the chat room this week
27 Feb 2014
While checking out the Wistia blog, I came across this post that piqued my interest. It resonated with me since I have been taking care of most of our remarketing campaigns lately (sorry if you are inundated with kittens now). I hate how tracking URLs look. Filled with utm_source, utm_campaign and such. Not a clean URL by any standard. However, this is what we need to use to track these campaigns. A necessary evil, I suppose.
What Fresh URL does is delete the tracking code after those tracking services have registered their information. This gives your visitors a nice clean URL if they are moved to share the page. This prevents false page tracking and just makes the internet a nicer place to be.
27 Feb 2014
Planet Argon hired two Epicodus graduates as junior Ruby on Rails developers: Abby Ihrig and Ana Tighe. I took some time to sit down with them and see how things are going so far. It was great talking to them about their experiences starting as junior developers here. We touched on some interesting points, including company culture, favorite apps, music, and some insights for people interested in development.
27 Feb 2014
Sandi Metz explained her 5 rules (and why they matter) at Future Talk at New Relic on Monday the 24th.
24 Feb 2014
One of our clients, Trail of Bits, has released Javelin... an automated spear phishing and watering hole attack assessment product.
We've been helping them bring this idea to life this past year and are quite excited to see where this goes.
21 Feb 2014
Justin Weiss posted a great article on how you can add quick and easy filtering for Rails models without bloating your controllers or models beyond adding scopes here
21 Feb 2014
Great episode of The Talk Show where Jason Fried joins John Gruber to discuss the recent rebranding of 37 Signals to Basecamp, the simple secret to success in business and why DHH doesn't particularly care for fajitas. Queue it up on your next commute.
18 Feb 2014
Quinn Slack shares his team’s experience with AngularJS…
13 Feb 2014
Entering the field as a Junior Developer can be intimidating. Here are a couple of experiences I found important in my preparation to making the transition into full time development.
4 Feb 2014
This is why facebook stopped emailing copies of notifications to people’s inboxes by default: they learned that emailing people less about what’s happening in the app actually keeps them coming back more.
1 Feb 2014
As one of the team members at Planet Argon who handles incoming requests for project opportunities, I’m often fielded the question, “what does a typical web application cost?” Like a good software engineer, my response is, “it depends.”
28 Jan 2014
Looking forward to seeing how this turns out. Congrats to Linda on raising over $200k for this.
7 Jan 2014
In the past year or so, the front-end developers at Planet Argon have taken more of a modular approach to writing CSS. This means writing CSS in a way that promotes forward-thinking, scalability, and ease of development. Before I get into the pros and cons, here’s a quick example of the difference between a modular and non-modular approach.
13 Dec 2013
If you’re a fan of my open source project, oh-my-zsh, we have t-shirts available in the online store. Enjoy!
10 Dec 2013
Worthwhile read on how technical debt can slow down velocity on a project.
9 Dec 2013
Just do it. The leader of the free world said so.
14 Nov 2013
Really enjoyed this post by Lyza Gardner about knowing when to admit that you don’t know about a specific technology…yet.
11 Nov 2013
Today I’m concluding the series of interviews with Epicodus students! I got the chance to talk to Mac Eisenberg who is a native to Brooklyn, NYC. He came out to Portland from New York and is loving it.
8 Nov 2013
Welcome to round two of interviews with Epicodus students! Today we’ll talk with Hunter Meyer, a developer from Orlando, FL who loves Ruby on Rails.
6 Nov 2013
Throughout this week I’ll be posting my interviews with three students from local code school, Epicodus. They’ll talk about their experiences with the program and how they have been growing as web developers in the past few months.
With the emergence of of code schools in recent years, it can be hard to keep track of them all. Which ones should we be paying attention to as potential employers or students? I wanted to delve a little deeper and take a look at how current students felt about the program.
Today we hear from Braden O’Guinn and his experience with Epicodus.
5 Nov 2013
A few tips off the top of my head