Our team voted on open source projects to donate to during Free and Open Source Software Month. What were the results?
Open Source: Pay It Forward
28 Feb 2023
Misc Entries
How to Encourage Your Dev Team to Contribute to Open Source Software Projects
20 Feb 2023
If you want to prioritize your organization's contributions to the open source software community, here are some ways to help get your dev team on board.
Year-End Review: Self-Guided Career Reflections
20 Dec 2022
During this time of year, you may be finishing up tasks and projects for the year, working on strategies for the next year, and setting up new goals. Before moving too far into the future, it’s good practice to reflect on this past year.
18 Years of Planet Argon
22 Sep 2020
How to Find Engineers to Interview for Your Technical Podcast
19 Apr 2019
Seven strategies for finding engineers to interview for your technical podcast in the software and development space.
Portland Women in Tech State of the Community Results
15 Aug 2018
This year, we partnered with Portland Women in Tech to create the data visualization site for their 2018 community survey. The results are now live.
Our Favorite Google Chrome Extensions
29 Jun 2017
Chrome Extensions can simplify your life in and out of the office. The right extensions can help you manage your social media, check your grammar, or give you a heads up when that game you’ve been searching for comes up on Craigslist. Here are our team's favorite Chrome extensions for development, marketing, and the whole world beyond the workplace.
Creating Templates with Google Drive
13 Dec 2016
Do you use Google Drive for your everyday documents and spreadsheets? Wish you could just have a template for those files (instead of opening an old file and creating a copy)? Well, now you can (again). Google recently announced they were bringing back team Google Drive templates. This post walks you through how to take advantage of that feature.
Thinking Like a Developer
26 Sep 2016
An old friend of mine, Geoffrey Grosenbach, shares thoughts on why thinking like a developer could be a good thing...even if you're not...a developer.
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.
