News Posts

We’ve relaunched our Ruby on Rails Code Audit service as a new flat-rate package, which we’re now calling the 8-Hour Rails Code Audit. You can receive eight hours of development time, which consists of a seven hours of review and documentation by one of our experienced developers plus an hour long follow-up phone conference (or in-person meeting if you’re local).

This new service can be an excellent tool to help your business outline an improvement strategy and roadmap for your existing Ruby on Rails application.

We’re kicking off our seventh summer in business with a party! Join us this coming First Thursday, July 2nd 2009, for Planet Argon’s first official Open House. We’d love for you to come hang out with our team, eat some food, play some games, and enjoy a lovely summer evening in Old Town. With so much great stuff going on in the neighborhood, why not make us one of your stops? Food, drinks and entertainment is on us!

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.

Hey brainstormr! Yeah, we’re talking to you. HeyBrainstormr.com, a new micro app from the team at Planet Argon, can help you collect those precious braindrops. Stop on by to start your own brainstorm and then share it with friends, colleagues, family, neighbors, anyone!

And don’t forget to follow @heybrainstormr on twitter.

We pleased to announce that we just published the results for the Ruby on Rails Hosting 2009 Survey for the community. We’ve provided downloads in CSV, PDF, and HTML formats.

The design and development team at Planet Argon recently launched a site refresh for Boxcar, a streamlined deployment environment for Ruby on Rails applications. We invite you to take a tour to learn more about how Boxcar can get your web application up and running.

It’s lift off time for AlphaClone! Planet Argon recently helped launch AlphaClone.com, a premier stock research and portfolio simulation service for individuals and professional investors alike. Clone, backtest and track over 230 top fund manager portfolios. More than 15,000 pre-generated clones and nearly limitless possibilities based on your own custom groups of funds. Planet Argon worked with the AlphaClone team to design and develop the product, from ideation through deployment. AlphaClone is being hosted using the same technology that powers Rails Boxcar and is being managed by our team of deployment specialists.

Contact us today to find out how we can help you launch your next big idea.

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.

In our efforts to always be on the cutting edge of the latest tools and resources, PLANET ARGON has recently adopted Git, a source code management system. Be sure to check out the latest Hansel Minutes Podcasts, recorded at our studio in Portland, Oregon. Andy Delcambre, Gary Blessington, and Robby Russell had a chance to sit down with Scott Hanselman to discuss PLANET ARGON’s adoption of Git.