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Hey! My name is Corinne and I’m excited to introduce myself as Planet Argon’s first intern! I’m currently a student studying art, graphic and web design at Portland State University. I was lucky enough to land an intern position here at Planet Argon.

A large part of my education has been from studying resources on the web. And by “studying” I mean for four or five months I locked myself in my apartment and tried to learn as much as I could about web design and development.

So, as you can imagine, after a while this got pretty lonely. The amount of information out there was daunting. I decided to put my new skills to use and launched a portfolio site in hopes I’d be able to land an internship where I could learn around professionals.

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Welcome Meyer Memorial Trust to the Planet Argon team!

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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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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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We recently spoke with one of our clients about improving their site performance; specifically, we chatted about the relationship between page load time and user satisfaction. I found a number of articles relating page load speed to bounce rate, but there’s no study as convincing as an analysis of a client’s own statistics. With the help of Annie, our very own analytics expert, I was able to fumble my way through the creation of a helpful chart plotting load time versus exit and bounce rates using Google Analytics and Google Spreadsheets.

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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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Planet Argon is excited to announce our partnership with Oceanscape Network, a new educational program developed by the Oregon Coast Aquarium, a leader in ocean conservation, education, and literacy.

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We've launched a super site for our local soccer team, (wearerctid.com/](http://wearerctid.com/)

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Every year, Planet Argon releases a retrospective compiling the past year’s events; this includes business accomplishments like app launches, and personal milestones like marriage and travels. A couple months ago, I, Jack Bouba, was tasked with getting the ball rolling for the 2012 Year in Review. I felt this was right up my alley because (1) I love being in charge and (2) I’ve been rolling balls since childhood.

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As 2012 was winding down and the holiday season was winding up, I took time to work on some of our internal projects.

While updating some applications to Rails 3, I noticed that our gem, Flash Message Conductor, was not still Rails 3 ready.

Instead of replacing all of the syntactic sugar that Flash Message Conductor gives us to the Rails defaults in our applications, I decided to update the gem to use Rails 3.

I'm pleased to announce that Flash Message Conductor 2.0 is now available for download and it's compatible with all versions of Rails 3 (3.0, 3.1, and 3.2).

Still using Rails 2? Don't worry, you can still using version 1.x of the gem in your projects.

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