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We’ve been using this framework for Adobe InDesign to package up our strategy-related client deliverables.

We recently started a new podcast that covers various topics related to the projects that they work on. We invite you to check it out.

I gave a talk titled, “Launching projects with Ruby on Rails” in London this last summer. They’ve recently posted the video online to watch.

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.

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.

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.