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A chat with Ken Stowell - local Javascript expert from Metal Toad

7 Oct 2013

I’ve been scouring the internet to find some folks in our fair city of Portland, OR who are willing to talk about their developer experience.

I was lucky enough to connect with Ken Stowell of Metal Toad Media. Metal Toad Media has an agency here in Portland as well as L.A. and San Francisco.

Ken lives here with us in Portland and was happy to answer my questions. I was hoping to learn a little more about Javascript developers and how developer interns like me could find our way into the industry.

Ken Stowell

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Get Your Photo on Google Results with Google Authorship

14 Aug 2013

I know you have seen it. You are searching for a hack to make IE behave itself and you come across search results with someone’s smiling mug right there next to the link. If you are like me, you are more likely to click these results instead of the boring, all-text results. Something about seeing the author’s face right next to their link inspires an added air of credibility and expertise. Pretty good deal for those people.

Image of search results with my photo next to them

So, now you are thinking, how can I get my photo up on my Google search results? Well, let me explain.

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Ruby on Rails is Zen!

14 Aug 2013

Learn why Ruby on Rails is the right choice for you! Here's a simple technical overview of Ruby on Rails characteristics, advantages, purposes, and other!

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The GitHub Pages Gem simplifies local GitHub Pages development

12 Aug 2013

Cutting the GitHub Pages Gem

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.”

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Favorite talks of RailsConf 2013

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.

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Modern Web Development Workshop

7 May 2013

Modern Web Development Workshop

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…

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Can I Use the first-child pseudo-element in IE8?

3 Apr 2013

Can I Use?

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!)

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Web Dev Workshop Announced!

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.

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Inviting you to attend our first Modern Web Development Workshop

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.

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Couchbase Dev Day PDX

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.

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