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14 Aug 2013
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12 Aug 2013
GitHub just announced the release of their GitHub Pages Gem, a simple tool that makes it a cinch to mirror the GitHub Pages server environment locally. A quick install of the Ruby Gem will download the Jekyll gem, all its dependencies, and anything else that GitHub Pages uses to customize its Jekyll environment.
GitHub Pages, a free hosting platform with built-in version control, is powered by Jekyll, a “simple, blog aware static site generator.”
31 May 2013
RailsConf 2013 was held in our hometown of Portland, Oregon. Most of us had been to RailsConf at least once before, though it had been a few years. The Rails ecosystem has really matured since then, and maintainability and APIs dominated many of the talks instead of social networks and new toolkits. There were many good talks and speakers, but a few truly exceptional ones that we really enjoyed. So we each selected our favorites and suggest anyone that couldn’t go this year should check these out online at Confreaks They should be posted shortly.
7 May 2013
Yesterday, we hosted the first Modern Web Development workshop here in Portland, Oregon. Jack and Brian took attendees on a tour of Bootstrap, Sass, Git, and Jekyll.
I snuck in and took a few photos…
3 Apr 2013
Here is a little knowledge nugget that Jack and I picked up during our time at An Event Apart: Seattle (more on that to come). We learned about this handy little site called caniuse.com that was created by Alexis Deveria. The site lets you look up HTML5, CSS, JS API, SVG, etc. elements to see what their support is across browsers. Then you can assess.. Can I use that?
We are freshly back from the conference and I have already started using and benefiting from it. Give it a look and find out what you can use. (Turns out you can use the first-child pseudo-element in IE8!)
25 Feb 2013
Planet Argon will hold its first Modern Web Dev workshop on May 6, 2013 in Portland, OR at the historic Kennedy School. This workshop will focus on new and emerging front-end development techniques including Bootstrap, SCSS, Jekyll and Github.
21 Feb 2013
We’re pleased to announce the first scheduled date for our Modern Web Development Workshop, which will take place on Monday, May 6th, 2013 in Portland, Oregon.
30 Jan 2013
Last week several argonauts made our way to Couchbase Dev Day PDX, where members of the Couchbase development team Jasdeep, Tugduall and John provided us with a walkthrough of the new features of Couchbase Server 2.0, along with tips and use cases for squeezing performance from data-centric apps. They gave us a rundown of their quickly evolving NoSql technologies and, since then, we've been mulling over how best to leverage Couchbase here at Planet Argon.
2 Jan 2013
As 2012 was winding down and the holiday season was winding up, I took time to work on some of our internal projects.
While updating some applications to Rails 3, I noticed that our gem, Flash Message Conductor, was not still Rails 3 ready.
Instead of replacing all of the syntactic sugar that Flash Message Conductor gives us to the Rails defaults in our applications, I decided to update the gem to use Rails 3.
I'm pleased to announce that Flash Message Conductor 2.0 is now available for download and it's compatible with all versions of Rails 3 (3.0, 3.1, and 3.2).
Still using Rails 2? Don't worry, you can still using version 1.x of the gem in your projects.
27 Nov 2012
When Robby asked me to migrate our app, heybrainstormr.com, over to AppFog, I was surprised. I am a Frontend Developer here at Planet Argon and am not used to doing things that include the words migrating, database or runtimes. He assured me that if I needed help, a developer would be within shouting distance to assist. Confident in the fact that backup was available, I headed into the fog.
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