Stop treating the development community like it’s a fucking boys club.
When is this shit going to stop?
20 Mar 2012
Pairing Devices and Debugging With Adobe Shadow
7 Mar 2012
I just saw a video introducing a new Adobe Labs product- Adobe Shadow. Eric claims to have found the video this morning, but I ask- where’s the proof? Anyway, Adobe Shadow seems like a handy little app capable of wirelessly pairing a desktop/laptop to multiple devices- and sharing browser screens among those devices. I am particularly curious about the built-in Web Inspector that could be used to alter the HTML/CSS being served to the different devices on the fly. Web devs/designers out there- thoughts?
Intended audience?
24 Feb 2012
Cooper is guarding the studio today
14 Feb 2012
Gary will occasionally bring his dogs to the studio. We put this sign on the door to warn visitors.
Bringing People Together: The Contiki Community
25 Jan 2012
A community needs a common passion or value, something that brings the members together. The Contiki Community is not about a passion for travel. It’s not about the product either. Much in the same way that you are not simply “buying a tour,” the Contiki Community is about the Contiki experience. It’s about the hunt for the perfect trip, the rush of making the decision and booking a trip, the buildup as you get closer to your departure, the letting go and immersing yourself in a new culture with new people, the high after you return where you can’t stop talking about what you saw and did, and the burning desire to do it again; or rather it’s about all the feelings you have as you go through the lifecycle of doing a Contiki.
– Allison Beckwith, Planet Argon, on the design vision for the new community pages
What began as a vision between Contiki and the Planet Argon Team became a reality this week as we launched the new Contiki Community pages.
PressPausePlay
23 Jan 2012
What might the future of art look like?
Observations of an Android to iPhone convert
23 Jan 2012
I bought a Motorola Droid in the summer of 2010. I wanted a smartphone so I could check my email on the go, replace my aging GPS, and browse the internet occasionally. I bought a Droid because Amazon had a great deal (it was basically free), and I wanted to be able to do whatever I wanted with it. I rooted it within a week of getting it since that was the easiest way to get the updated version of the Android OS at the time.
I was really happy with the extremely easy and tight integration with all of the Google services I used (email and calendar mostly). But my wife really wanted a smartphone as well, specifically an iPhone. I was against the idea because I knew she’d have questions about how to use it, and without one of my own I’d be in the position of supporting two kinds of devices. When I started working for Planet Argon where everyone has an iPhone, I encountered my first small disadvantage…
Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse - a mobile workshop
17 Jan 2012
Last night, I was fortunate enough to participate in a dry run of Jason Grigsby and Lyza Danger Gardner’s WebVisions New York mobile workshop- the somewhat awkwardly titled “Zombie Apocalypse of Devices Preparedness 101.”
On open-plans and groupthink
15 Jan 2012
From an Opinion piece in the New York Times by Susan Cain.
“But it’s one thing to associate with a group in which each member works autonomously on his piece of the puzzle; it’s another to be corralled into endless meetings or conference calls conducted in offices that afford no respite from the noise and gaze of co-workers. Studies show that open-plan offices make workers hostile, insecure and distracted. They’re also more likely to suffer from high blood pressure, stress, the flu and exhaustion. And people whose work is interrupted make 50 percent more mistakes and take twice as long to finish it.”
Very interesting…
Our Plants
13 Jan 2012
There are more plants than people in the Planet Argon studio, and we felt it was time to tell their story.