Redesigning for digital health care will be a hurdle that we need to overcome. Here are just a few main points to show what’s at stake if we ignore or wait for someone else to figure it out.
Redesigning the Health Care Experience
1 Mar 2016
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Our Most Delightful Core Value
1 Mar 2016
When looking at our 'core values' you will see words like dependable, versatile and collaborative, words you might expect to see on an organization's value list. Let’s call these ‘The Usual Suspects’. Then, there is one word, in this list, that stands out a little. This particular word is delightful.
Slick carousel is awesome and you should use it
29 Feb 2016
I’ve used a lot of different jQuery plugins without giving them much of a second thought after implementation. With slick carousel though, each time I come back and use it I’m a little more impressed each time. All the features I need are built right in, are intuitive, and work consistently.
Debugging HTTP Requests with Sinatra
23 Feb 2016
Recently I was working on a task where I was attempting to connect to a third party API (from a Rails app using the HTTParty gem). The API had a fairly complicated authorization header that needed to be built, by concatenating the body of the request itself along with various authorization headers, then being hashed, and then being base64 encoded and escaped. If the header was improperly formed, all I saw was a 403 Forbidden response - not particularly helpful for debugging.
Why We Began Selling Support and Maintenance Retainers
19 Feb 2016
We're often asked why we bill in a retainer model. Here's some background on some of our motives when we began to add them to our service offerings.
Collaborative: A Planet Argon Core Value
17 Feb 2016
4 Ways To Get To Know Your Clients
8 Feb 2016
Don't forget the the middle-man in between you and the user. You know, the company behind the product? AKA your client? Their organization? To build a successful product, it’s just as important to get to know them for a lot of reasons.
Versatile: Another Core Value
2 Feb 2016
Some time in the last year we decided that we needed to re-examine our existing core values. When we sat down to rethink this, versatility was already one of our core objectives. It’s one of our values that has stuck with us and has been relevant in our agency throughout the years.
Creating Custom Actions in Spree Commerce
11 Jan 2016
A developer's walkthrough for creating a custom action inside Spree Commerces internals.
Proactive: A Planet Argon Core Value
4 Jan 2016
As a core value, we define proactive as actively seeking opportunities to improve our client’s products, our processes, and our abilities. What does that mean? And why is this important to us?