The folks over at Treehouse interviewed Carlos on our approach to hiring junior developers.
An interview with Carlos on the Treehouse blog
23 Feb 2016
Debugging HTTP Requests with Sinatra
23 Feb 2016
Recently I was working on a task where I was attempting to connect to a third party API (from a Rails app using the HTTParty gem). The API had a fairly complicated authorization header that needed to be built, by concatenating the body of the request itself along with various authorization headers, then being hashed, and then being base64 encoded and escaped. If the header was improperly formed, all I saw was a 403 Forbidden response - not particularly helpful for debugging.
Why We Began Selling Support and Maintenance Retainers
19 Feb 2016
We're often asked why we bill in a retainer model. Here's some background on some of our motives when we began to add them to our service offerings.
Collaborative: A Planet Argon Core Value
17 Feb 2016
A Reflection on "The Rails Doctrine"
8 Feb 2016
Planet Argon has worked with Ruby on Rails for over a decade. While not without it's hardships or challenges, we feel that "The Rails Doctrine" perfectly highlights the reasons why Planet Argon has found RoR to be a recipe for success. Both in business and the happiness of all parties involved in a project.
4 Ways To Get To Know Your Clients
8 Feb 2016
Don't forget the the middle-man in between you and the user. You know, the company behind the product? AKA your client? Their organization? To build a successful product, it’s just as important to get to know them for a lot of reasons.
UX Framework for Healthcare apps
5 Feb 2016
Lorraine Chapman shares thoughts on the Design Thinking Framework that Macadamian is using for the design of Healthcare applications.
Versatile: Another Core Value
2 Feb 2016
Some time in the last year we decided that we needed to re-examine our existing core values. When we sat down to rethink this, versatility was already one of our core objectives. It’s one of our values that has stuck with us and has been relevant in our agency throughout the years.
We're moving to One North in Portland
27 Jan 2016
Portland Business Journal's write up on the upcoming relocation to our new studio.
C'mon...It's 2016!
12 Jan 2016
Our team recently sat down and started talking about some trends we think might pick up steam for 2016. The conversation ventured down another road, trends we wish would go away. While I would necessarily call these trends, this article points out a lot of nuisances that sites still make us go through, and we still deal with on a day-to-day basis. WHY!?! Make it stop!