We’re happy to announce that PLANET ARGON is the new host for the Globalize Rails project. The purpose of the Globalize project is to bring support for multilingual applications to the Ruby on Rails framework. Our Rails development team has used this in several projects recently and Lead Architect, Jeremy Voorhis, will be presenting a talk at Canada on Rails about i18n in Rails.

Check out the Globalize Rails project

We are excited to announce that not one, but two PLANET ARGON Core Team members have been added to the schedule for the Canada on Rails conference! Sometime between April 13th and 14th, Robby Russell, founder of PLANET ARGON, will present Sneaking Rails into the (Legacy) System, and Jeremy Voorhis, Lead Architect, will present Internationalizing Rails. Be sure to check the official schedule for exact presentation times.

Jeremy gave a presentation on i18n in Ruby on Rails on January 3rd, 2006 at the first Portland Ruby Brigade meeting of the new year. Check out his slideshow from the presentation and read his blog entry about the event.

Thank you to everyone who helped make our year a huge success! We look forward to serving the community even more in 2006 as we add more developers and support staff to the PLANET ARGON Core Team, release cool products, and help push Ruby on Rails into the mainstream.

Have a fantastic New Years!

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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.