14 May 2024
Robby attended RailsConf 2024 and enjoyed several talks, particularly those on Domain-Driven Design and offloading async tasks. They also hosted tables for Oh My Zsh during the hack day sessions and learned that the 2025 RailsConf would be the last one.
1 May 2024
Getting ready for RailsConf? Whether you're attending or presenting (or both!), we've got some tips to help you make the most of it.
27 Oct 2023
We're tackling common concerns about adopting Ruby on Rails in 2024, breaking down its enduring benefits and community vibes. Spoiler: Rails isn't going anywhere, folks. 🎉
4 Dec 2019
Two of Planet Argon's Ruby on Rails developers attended RubyConf 2019 in Nashville. Here are their favorite talks from the conference.
24 May 2018
Didn’t make it to RailsConf this year? Here are five of our favorite Rails talks from RailsConf 2018.
28 May 2013
So, I didn’t technically attend Google I/O 2013, this year’s iteration of the company’s developer conference; I didn’t receive a free Chromebook Pixel and I definitely didn’t sit through the 3.5-hour keynote. But I did watch a bunch of the session videos when I was likely supposed to be doing something else, like laundry or, you know, working. There were hundreds of talks over the course of the 3 days, with topics including Android, Chrome & Apps, Maps, and YouTube, and the majority of them are posted on the Google Developers YouTube channel. In comparison to last year’s flashy introductions (Google Glass, a new Android OS, the Nexus 7 tablet), the 2013 I/O was less relevant to the typical consumer. But I found this year’s focus on developers and their tools quite interesting; in particular, there were a few announcements that really caught my attention.
10 Apr 2013
Last week, Brian and I sat with our peers in rapt attention at the Seattle occurrence of An Event Apart, the inspiring one-track web conference started by Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer in 2005. Known as “the design conference for people who make websites,” AEA is a particularly acclaimed web conference for good reason. Zeldman and Meyer, visionaries famous for helping shape the web as we know it, gather a dozen of the web’s most influential creators and gifted presenters to share their thoughts, inquiries, and discoveries with the several hundred fortunate attendees.
Since you were too busy vacuuming and/or getting your tires rotated to attend, I’ve summarized the best parts. Enjoy!
14 Aug 2012
At the beginning of this month, I was fortunate enough to attend the Cooper UX Boot Camp. What is unique about this course is that Cooper partners with a non-profit to identify a need they have and, in turn, give the class a real-world problem to work towards resolving. In the end, teams may “compete” for the best idea, but everyone walks away with a clearer idea of the process and the chosen non-profit walks away with all of the ideas AND a donation in the name of the winning team.
21 Jul 2012
With the release of 2.0, I decided to give PhoneGap another look and head off to the launch talks. Here is a list of what I found interesting…
24 May 2012
Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed 14 Things I learned at WebVisions – Day 1. How was dinner? Did you sleep well? OK, enough chit chat- it’s time for the epic conclusion of this 2-part series. Without further ado, I present the remaining 7 things I learned while attending WebVisions Portland 2012:
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