Leadership Entries

“Agile proponents, and oponents, get hung up on the issue of architecture—to develop architecture up front or to evolve architecture over time. This isn’t a problem, it’s a paradox. There isn’t a single solution to the question, but a series of balanced resolutions that depend on the specific organizational and project or product context. Ultimately, the architecture issue requires a balancing of early skeleton work combined with evolutionary updates. Balancing early versus evolution makes management more difficult than a black and white problem solution, but balancing resolutions over time will deliver far better performance.”

Check out this podcast from The Changelog where you can listen to Robby Russell share the story of oh-my-zsh. Learn more about the popular open source project as well as his thoughts on Open Source and Planet Argon.

The Changelog is “a weekly podcast and blog that covers what’s fresh and new in Open Source.”

We just published a new entry to our podcast. In this episode we discuss our recent UX Designer hiring process. Enjoy!

Partner and Chief Evangelist, Robby Russell, will be speaking at Rails Underground in London, which takes place July 24-25th, 2009. Be sure to catch Robby speak at the conference on the topic of launching Ruby on Rails applications. He will be walking the audience through the Planet Argon team’s Project Launch checklist, which has evolved through several years of designing, developing, and deploying web applications. Robby will share his experiences and outline a collection of best practices such as; keeping your project releasable at all times, managing staging and production environments, bootstrapping your application for SEO and analytics/conversion tracking, preparing for the unexpected, and most importantly… making sure your clients are ready for the bumpy ride.

Planet Argon’s Lead Evangelist Robby Russell was recently interviewed by Bob Zurek of the EnterpriseDB’s Database Radio podcast. The discussion covers topics ranging from our usage of PostgreSQL and Ruby on Rails to best practices for developers and open source communities. The podcast is now available to listen to online.

Founder and Executive Director, Robby Russell, will be speaking at this year’s AjaxWorld Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, California on October 3rd. Catch Robby at the Ruby on Rails seminar where he will share several Real World examples of how Rails has served as both the replacement for and extension of existing architectures. Additionally, Robby will discuss when using Rails is appropriate and how to make the right decision for your business. Registration is still open, so register today!

“Robby Russell, owner of Planet Argon, Portland, Ore., said the offering competes directly against Microsoft’s low-end SQL Server Express and MySQL, which comes in open-source and commercial flavors.”

Robby was interviewed in a recent article about MySQL, which discussed the differences of PostgreSQL and MySQL from the perspective of a developer and business owner.