29 May 2010
We recently helped launch the Yoga Today Ambassador Program, which enables their passionate customers with tools to promote their fantastic subscription service. The program allows customers to share their service on social-media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, while gaining rewards when their friends and family sign up for accounts.
24 May 2010
We recently rolled out a new set of tools, which allows Contiki’s customers to check-in for their upcoming vacation and gain access to other pre-and-post trip benefits.
20 Apr 2010
Late-last year, we helped Contiki launch their new search results and have been evolving this interface for them to promote their trips across each of their regions.
2 Nov 2009
We’re currently working closely with our long-time clients, Contiki, on improving the user experience for their customers. Our design team recently deployed a new interface for their search results, which allows their customers to research, save, and compare trips that they’re evaluating for their dream vacation.
26 Oct 2009
We’re excited to announce that the Planet Argon Podcast is now available in the Apple iTunes Store. You can now subscribe to our new podcast and have episodes download automatically to your iTunes.
23 Oct 2009
After several years of talking about it, we’ve finally decided to start a podcast. We’ll be covering topics related to Ruby on Rails, Interaction Design, Agile Best-Practices, Running a small business, collaborating with clients, and anything else related to the design and development of web applications. We invite you to subscribe to our podcast and join the conversation. You can find a list of published episodes on the new Planet Argon Podcast page.
21 Oct 2009
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.
12 Aug 2009
Earlier this week, our team accepted a proposal from Blue Box Group, a Ruby on Rails hosting company based out of Tacoma, Washington. With this partnership, Blue Box Group has acquired our hosting product, Rails Boxcar. For more information about the acquisition, read the joint press release.
25 Jun 2009
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!
18 Jun 2009
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.
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