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
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.
Blair Enns on the rise of the New Peer Groups
25 Feb 2016
What many veteran network members might find surprising is the event participants communicate with each other far more than do the members of the traditional networks who’ve known each other for years. And they share – boy do they share! They don’t feel the need to be locked into a long-term network arrangement to solicit and offer feedback. They help strangers and expect to be helped by strangers.
As a member of the Owner Summit / Owner Camp network, I thought this was a fascinating read about the history of industry peer groups. At the moment, it's become one of my best tools in my toolbox.
Carlos on not knowing
25 Feb 2016
Not knowing something is the basis of creativity, imagination, and innovation. That’s where scientists come from. 'I don’t know' is their most important question.
An interview with Carlos on the Treehouse blog
23 Feb 2016
The folks over at Treehouse interviewed Carlos on our approach to hiring junior developers.
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
A Reflection on "The Rails Doctrine"
8 Feb 2016
Planet Argon has worked with Ruby on Rails for over a decade. While not without it's hardships or challenges, we feel that "The Rails Doctrine" perfectly highlights the reasons why Planet Argon has found RoR to be a recipe for success. Both in business and the happiness of all parties involved in a project.