I got to catchup recently with James Anderson, aka @_jamesaanderson, who was Planet Argon's youngest intern at 14 in 2013 to find out what he's been up to since then.
Catchup with James Anderson, Planet Argon's youngest intern
1 Jul 2015
1 Jul 2015
I got to catchup recently with James Anderson, aka @_jamesaanderson, who was Planet Argon's youngest intern at 14 in 2013 to find out what he's been up to since then.
30 Jun 2015
A brief statement on Planet Argon's employment policy regarding marijuana consumption.
24 Jun 2015
The Portland Business Journal ranked Planet Argon as the 148th fastest-growing private company in Portland of 2014.
8 Jun 2015
We're always on the lookout for new technologies at Planet Argon. One that looks interesting right now is Elixir. This tutorial covers getting started with Elixir using the Phoenix framework. It is still pretty early days, and some things seem to have changed since the tutorial was written, but that's the nature of the cutting edge.
7 May 2015
It was a couple of years ago when I was introduced to Haml. I believe my first time working with it was on an inherited project. The markup was very unfamiliar and a bit of a pain. Why would anyone want to abstract out HTML when you could just write it normally? It initially seemed like a needless, intermediary step.
I did recognize some of it's benefits. For example, it is nice to not have to worry about closing tags and the amount of typing it could save was pretty obvious. However, the indentation and other quirks seemed like a little too much to put up with.
So I went about my day, turning my nose up at the mention of Haml. Too cool for school, right?
6 May 2015
Like all software companies, estimates are a challenging aspect of the business for us at Planet Argon. Why are they so troublesome? What can be done about it? The Clever PM has an interesting and informative article about this topic.
22 Apr 2015
A very creative plug-in that turns your 'Back to Top' buttons into a delightful, unexpected experience.
Created by Tim Holman.
9 Apr 2015
Skoshbox delivers a nicely curated box filled with Japanese snacks each month and sells individual products. In late 2014, Skoshbox selected Planet Argon to help launch them on a new platform.
8 Apr 2015
We ran into an issue requiring us to send an action from our Ember controller to a component rendered within its template. A surprisingly difficult task due to the compartmentalization of Ember's Components, and the frameworks emphasis on "data down, actions up".
Fortunately we ran into this post by Sam Selikoff and the ember add-on it has inspired, ember-component-inbound-actions.
We didn't end up using the add-on due to the overall simplicity of the solution at hand, but it was so good we just had to share!
Thanks Sam!
6 Apr 2015
We’ve been working on a project recently in which our designs called for a hover dropdown menu that did not close until the user clicks outside of the drop-down. Creating something like this in jQuery and in a Ruby on Rails app would have been a no-brainer. But I quickly discovered it wasn’t going to be quite so straightforward in our new Ember app.
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