17 Aug 2016
For the last couple months, Planet Argon has been working with TechTown Portland to create a web representation of their 2016 Diversity Survey.
Now with the launch of the TechTown Portland Diversity Survey results, we’ve decided to also open source our code that we built for the project, using Chartist.js as our charting library.
5 Jul 2016
We have reached a point where there are too many devices and browsers in existence to realistically test for all of them. Under typical constraints, we can only go so far to make sure that everything is compatible for every browser and device on the planet.
9 Jun 2016
Users aren’t always online! We know this, but most websites and web applications are still incapable of supporting a user who’s lost their connection.
7 Jun 2016
Both Bootstrap and Foundation are wonderful front-end frameworks. However, only one of them can reign supreme as our front-end framework of choice. Find out which one floats above the competition.
2 Jun 2016
Robby speaks with ten different companies about the benefits of adding Ruby on Rails to their toolset.
2 Jun 2016
As developers, we seek tools which make our daily life easier. Over the years, our tools have improved to make one of the often complicated process of deploying our code up to various instances. Making this process as automated as possible will not only increase productivity but also prevent potentially application-breaking issues from ever getting to your remote instances.
2 Jun 2016
Puma’s popularity as both a web and Rails server has shown steady growth toward the position of preferred tool for both roles. Growing out of the once-mighty Mongrel, Puma hails itself as "A Modern, Concurrent Web Server for Ruby". Showing significantly lower memory usage and response times than Unicorn and Passenger the communities support appears to be continuing to shift in its direction.
1 Jun 2016
A declining but still significant percentage of respondents to Planet Argon's Rails survey (down to 16% this year, from a high of 31% in 2009) don’t use any exception notification at all on their projects. Why turn a deaf ear to an important part of your application’s health?
1 Jun 2016
One of the questions we asked in the recent survey was "How many years have you been developing with Ruby on Rails?". The purpose of this question is to get a very general idea of the shift in experience across the community.
1 Jun 2016
Since 2012, PostgreSQL has grown to be the preferred choice of Ruby on Rails developers. We've been championing it for a bit longer.
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