Our response to the Kinderkreis: Danse Gooshers!.
Tribute to Danse Gooshers
9 Oct 2009
Rails Boxcar acquired by Blue Box Group
12 Aug 2009
Earlier this week, our team accepted a proposal from Blue Box Group, a Ruby on Rails hosting company based out of Tacoma, Washington. With this partnership, Blue Box Group has acquired our hosting product, Rails Boxcar. For more information about the acquisition, read the joint press release.
Trimet MAX Green Line invites Planet Argon team
9 Jul 2009
Trimet invited our team to ride the new Green line on the MAX.
Planet Argon At the Rebuilding Center
26 Jun 2009
We volunteered at the "Rebuilding Center":http://www.rebuildingcenter.org/ yesterday.
Come to our Open House Party
25 Jun 2009
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!
Robby to speak at Rails Underground 2009 in London
18 Jun 2009
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.
Just launched: HeyBrainstormr.com
2 Jun 2009
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.
Mebane Faber on CNBC
24 Apr 2009
Mebane Faber is a co-founder of AlphaClone, a project that we designed, developed, deployed was recently on CNBC discussing his new book, The Ivy Portfolio: How to Invest Like the Top Endowments and Avoid Bear Markets
We invite you to watch the video.
Congratulations to Mebane and Mazin for the well-deserved press coverage.
Obama endorsing Ruby on Rails?
16 Apr 2009
Okay, not really… but we’re really excited to see the news that Obama has, “highlighted his ambition for the development of high-speed passenger rail lines in at least 10 regions.”
image from nytimes.com
As you know, we’re big fans of traveling by Rail. You can read the article on nytimes.com.
Rails Hosting 2009 Survey results are in!
11 Mar 2009
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.