Yearly Archives: 2008

Bike Races, Ubuntu, & Green Cities

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Here are a few links of interest that have recently registered on the Pelago radar. Tour of California Stage 6: Santa Barbara to Santa Clarita Head down to east beach Saturday, February 23rd, for the start of stage 6, a 105 mile ride to Santa Clarita. If you can, ride your bike or walk down, […]

Business Lessons for Graphic Designers

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I was fortunate to have studied graphic design at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, where I was educated and trained in several areas of design. I spent quarters at a time devoted solely to the disciplines of typography, editorial design, package design, and logo design. The experience was thorough, but it wasn’t complete. When I […]

How to Build a Green Business

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Check out our contribution to Digital Web magazine; tips and advice on greening your business by John Reeve. Read the article to discover ways to increase awareness and efforts in the areas of environmental, social, and organizational sustainability.

The Collaboration Tax

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One of the key components to any web-based project management service is collaboration. Does the service reduce barriers to participation and facilitate collaboration? Whether or not a service touts it, collaboration among team members has to be addressed as part of the worfkow. We’ve interpreted the team dynamic into Intervals in several ways. Most importantly, […]

Intervals Performance Tuning

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Last night we launched some significant updates to our web-based project management system, Intervals. These updates included upgrading to PostgreSQL to 8.3, tuning SQL queries to run faster, caching redundant data, and implementing more ajax code to decrease page loads. What can you expect to see as a result of the upgrade? Task lists and […]

Intervals Performance Improvements and Maintenance are Complete

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The second and more substantial maintenance and performance upgrade scheduled for this week are presently underway complete. We expect Intervals to be unavailable for approximately 1 hour sometime between 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM (Pacific). Intervals was unavailable for a little more than an hour. We will shoot out an email to all current Intervals […]

Alternatives

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At Pelago, we embrace the open source camp. We put some of our own work out there, promote projects like Ubuntu, and we built Intervals using PHP and PostgreSQL. In the large space of web-based project management software, Intervals is a fresh alternative to the proprietary behemoths who dominate task and time tracking with overly […]

Setting Higher Goals

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The primary purpose of a web-based project management service like Intervals is to track time and tasks, to run your small business and collaborate with a team. But is that it? Is that all Intervals does? Well, it does do a few other things, like invoicing and reporting, but there are some things it does […]