38 posts tagged PLANET ARGON

Was away on vacation Posted by Robby Russell Sun, 11 May 2008 22:33:00 GMT It’s been quiet here the past several weeks and that’s because for the first time since I started Planet Argon, I was able to take an extended vacation. My partner and I headed to France (Paris, Nice, Lascaux II, and Bordeaux) for a few weeks.

Review: Braintree 6 Posted by Robby Russell Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:58:00 GMT Zack Chandler (author of the TrustCommerce gem) writes.. “How do you like Braintree? I’ve haven’t used them yet but may in the future…” Good question. I was actually planning to write up a quick review of their exceptional service because not many people know about them yet.

In a previous post, I showed how we’ve been working on an interactive deployment process for Rails applications to reduce the time it takes to deploy to a Boxcar. We began to move our Boxcar deployment recipes into it’s own Rails plugin and just made it available on GitHub.

We’ve been designing and developing a new centralized billing platform over the past few months and late last week, we launched it! Along with this new billing platform, we launched another new application, Cobalt, which is a new account management and support tool for our hosting customers.

Interviewed by Hanselminutes 2 Posted by Robby Russell Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:31:00 GMT Earlier this week, Scott Hanselman from Hanselminutes came down to the Planet Argon studio to interview Andy, Gary, and myself about adoption of Git. The podcast interview is available online now.

Portland is calling... (you) Posted by Robby Russell Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:30:00 GMT We’re not looking for rock stars or ninjas at Planet Argon. ;-) We’re looking for individuals that share our core values. COLLABORATION – We believe that an open dialogue between all members of a group helps to produce more reasoned and intelligent decisions.

Portland is calling... (you) Posted by Robby Russell Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:30:00 GMT We’re not looking for rock stars or ninjas at Planet Argon. ;-) We’re looking for individuals that share our core values. COLLABORATION – We believe that an open dialogue between all members of a group helps to produce more reasoned and intelligent decisions.

git-svn is a gateway drug 2 Posted by Robby Russell Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:28:00 GMT As we’re migrating away from Subversion to Git, I’m having to learn a lot about git-svn. Andy has posted a few articles on this topic, but I wanted to share a quick tip that I find myself forgetting.

git-svn is a gateway drug Posted by Robby Russell Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:28:00 GMT As we’re migrating away from Subversion to Git, I’m having to learn a lot about git-svn. Andy has posted a few articles on this topic, but I wanted to share a quick tip that I find myself forgetting.

Throughout our design and development process, we’re working around areas of the site that are not yet implemented but we also want to be able to allow our clients to demo their application. In an effort to manage their expectations, we need to be careful about what we link to.