“Robby Russell, owner of Planet Argon, Portland, Ore., said the offering competes directly against Microsoft’s low-end SQL Server Express and MySQL, which comes in open-source and commercial flavors.”

Jeremy Voorhis will be joining us in Portland (from Ohio!) next week as the third member of the PLANET ARGON core team. Jeremy will be working closely with Robby on custom development work, as well as on their top-secret project, Refactoring Rails!

We are are very excited to announce the launch of our new website, now powered by Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and just a dash of AJAX. Let us know what you think! With a new site comes new hosting plans! Stay tuned for special deals.

We are excited to announce that we put up several prizes for the upcoming Typo Theme contest. Head over to TypoGarden to see all the rules and prizes that are being offered!

PLANET ARGON would like to congratulate this years Rails Day winners and participants. Benjamin Tucker won a Level 3 hosting package from us and Aaron Michal won a year of O’Reilly Safari Bookshelf from us. Congrats!

Robby Russell, owner of PLANET ARGON, is going to be writing a book for O’Reilly, called Programming Rails. Read his blog for the latest on his progress and his thoughts on Ruby on Rails.

Robby was interviewed in a recent article about MySQL, which discussed the differences of PostgreSQL and MySQL from the perspective of a developer and business owner.