Lately we have been doing a lot of work for clients on mobile versions of their websites. This got us looking at our own website and how it currently functions on a mobile device.
The Mobilification of Planet Argon
11 Apr 2012
Entries tagged: planet argon
Creating and Implementing D^5: Develop
11 Apr 2012
With questions answered, ideas sketched and everyone sick of me asking, “why?”—I moved to developing D^5.
Creating and Implementing D^5: Design
10 Apr 2012
Interviews complete, and all of my dog-eared project management books referenced; I was ready to start designing D^5. I started where I often do—flow-charting.
Sadly, iMessage didn't reduce our monthly bills
6 Apr 2012
I was hoping that iMessage was going to allow me to reduce my monthly iPhone bill… but it doesn’t appear that AT&T was going to let that happen.
Creating and Implementing D^5: Discovery
5 Apr 2012
As my bio indicates, this software business was entirely new to me. I dabbled with web apps in the past, created a handful of websites, and managed — from a very, very high-level — a few web projects. But my experience is in the much more progressive-sequence world of construction, manufacturing, and marketing. These are industries with well-defined, industry standard work-flows.
Part of the draw to the web studio was the unknown.
Creating and Implementing D^5: A Saga Begins
3 Apr 2012
Recently we deployed our new work process called D^5. It’s a five step program. Like most five step programs, its initiation started by admitting we had a problem.
Observations of an Android to iPhone convert
23 Jan 2012
I bought a Motorola Droid in the summer of 2010. I wanted a smartphone so I could check my email on the go, replace my aging GPS, and browse the internet occasionally. I bought a Droid because Amazon had a great deal (it was basically free), and I wanted to be able to do whatever I wanted with it. I rooted it within a week of getting it since that was the easiest way to get the updated version of the Android OS at the time.
I was really happy with the extremely easy and tight integration with all of the Google services I used (email and calendar mostly). But my wife really wanted a smartphone as well, specifically an iPhone. I was against the idea because I knew she’d have questions about how to use it, and without one of my own I’d be in the position of supporting two kinds of devices. When I started working for Planet Argon where everyone has an iPhone, I encountered my first small disadvantage…
2011 Year in Review
30 Dec 2011
As we look forward to 2012, we’ve also been taking time to reflect on this past year. There are a lot of new faces, a lot of personal stories, and it seems that we’ve been able to squeeze out a lot of projects for both our clients and ourselves.
Responsive Design for Brainstormr
23 Dec 2011
Brainstormr is a microsite that works well within the immediacy and simplicity of mobile web use, so we made it into a responsive design.
Rails Developers in Europe
13 Nov 2011
We’re looking for Ruby on Rails developers in Europe!