We’re kicking off our seventh summer in business with a party! Join us this coming First Thursday, July 2nd 2009, for Planet Argon’s first official Open House. We’d love for you to come hang out with our team, eat some food, play some games, and enjoy a lovely summer evening in Old Town. With so much great stuff going on in the neighborhood, why not make us one of your stops? Food, drinks and entertainment is on us!

Partner and Chief Evangelist, Robby Russell, will be speaking at Rails Underground in London, which takes place July 24-25th, 2009. Be sure to catch Robby speak at the conference on the topic of launching Ruby on Rails applications. He will be walking the audience through the Planet Argon team’s Project Launch checklist, which has evolved through several years of designing, developing, and deploying web applications. Robby will share his experiences and outline a collection of best practices such as; keeping your project releasable at all times, managing staging and production environments, bootstrapping your application for SEO and analytics/conversion tracking, preparing for the unexpected, and most importantly… making sure your clients are ready for the bumpy ride.

Hey brainstormr! Yeah, we’re talking to you. HeyBrainstormr.com, a new micro app from the team at Planet Argon, can help you collect those precious braindrops. Stop on by to start your own brainstorm and then share it with friends, colleagues, family, neighbors, anyone!

And don’t forget to follow @heybrainstormr on twitter.

We pleased to announce that we just published the results for the Ruby on Rails Hosting 2009 Survey for the community. We’ve provided downloads in CSV, PDF, and HTML formats.