On April 28th, 2013… we rented a bus to take nearly 50 Ruby on Rails developers who traveled to Portland for RailsConf 2013 on a hike. Here is a group shot of nearly everyone.
We hope you had as much of a blast as we did!
Argon Trail
6 May 2013
Did Google kill RSS?
13 Mar 2013
The truth is this: Google destroyed the RSS feed reader ecosystem with a subsidized product, stifling its competitors and killing innovation. It then neglected Google Reader itself for years, after it had effectively become the only player. Today it does further damage by buggering up the already beleaguered links between publishers and readers. It would have been better for the Internet if Reader had never been at all.
My RSS consumption was at an all-time high in the few years prior to Google Reader coming out. Once I migrated from a desktop RSS reader to Google Reader, I found myself opening it less often. Over the years, it's fallen off my radar. I only check a few times a month. Did Google kill RSS? On purpose? Accidental? Is RSS dead? Do we all need to rely on the sites we "follow" now via Facebook, Google+, and Twitter? Better? Worse? Inevitable?
What is your compass metric?
21 Feb 2013
My old early-Rails adopter friend, Tobias, of Shopify shares how they the share their reporting metrics with the organization.
Inviting you to attend our first Modern Web Development Workshop
21 Feb 2013
We’re pleased to announce the first scheduled date for our Modern Web Development Workshop, which will take place on Monday, May 6th, 2013 in Portland, Oregon.
Planet Argon Shake
12 Feb 2013
A remix of our Danse Gooshers video from 2009.
Social Media Marketing about to bust?
28 Jan 2013
Iām going to go out on a limb and say that the social media marketing bubble will burst soon enough.
What do you think?
Helping the Hollywood Theatre
18 Dec 2012
We helped out one of our fellow local businesses raise the funds to get a new marquee. We’re big fans of this historic Portland landmark and glad that we could do something to help shape the neighborhood for (we hope) many decades to come.
What are your users searching for?
17 Dec 2012
Great video to highlight how important it is to monitor how your users are searching for your products. Are there alternate spellings, abbreviations, and/or pop-culture slang that they might be searching for that you’re search indexes aren’t accounting for?
In many of our e-commerce projects, we’ve worked on a handful of solutions to address this. For example, a product like “LA Vacation” could be found under a number of possible searches:
- Los Angeles
- L.A.
- SoCal
- City of Angels
The great thing with most search index tools is that you can shove a lot of additional keywords without having to expose this to your users in some archaic list on the site.
Painting Planet Argon, part 10
10 Dec 2012
Today, we feature Planet Argon, by Carl Anderson.
Painting Planet Argon, part 9
7 Dec 2012
Today, we feature Planet Argon, by Jack Bouba.