| July 14th, 2009
http://www.flickr.com/photos/saschaaa/CC BY-ND 2.0 Last week I was having lunch with a friend who works for an IT company. Having a web developer on board, they were looking for ways to increase their revenues by fielding more web design and development projects. The catch, however, was that managing web design and development projects can be a […]
| July 9th, 2009
It’s no secret that the economy is behaving in an unprecedented and unpredictable manner. For the small business this can add an increased amount of uncertainty to an already volatile environment. But it can also create opportunity. As the economy continues to go through an adjustment new market opportunities are being created by agile small […]
| July 7th, 2009
Photo by e-magic There has been plenty of venting in the blogosphere about the difficulty and frustration that ensues when dealing with web developers. In fact, we’ve contributed to this topic ourselves when we wrote about The Myopic Web Developer. In an ideal world there would be a unity between the designer and the developer, […]
| July 2nd, 2009
For those print designers out there looking to lessen their impact on the earth with more than just recycled papers and soy-based inks, have a look at the Ecofont. The folks over at SPRANQ creative brainstormed several ways to deconstruct letter forms to decrease ink usage while maintaining readability. The end solution was rather simple, […]
| June 30th, 2009
It seems that the holy grail of any web-based project management software app is a state of consumer nirvana collectively coined as “simple.” The word has become so popular — and mis-applied — that compound superlatives are becoming more commonplace; “absurdly simple”, “unbelievably simple”, and so on. Yet, it is difficult to objectively define simplicity […]
| June 23rd, 2009
Part 5 in a 5 part series Get online with easy-to-use, comprehensive project management software—and use it! Whether it’s off-the-shelf project management software, an affordable hosted solution such as our software, Intervals, or your own internal system, every web design and development company (including freelancers) benefits greatly from good project management software. Not only does […]
| June 19th, 2009
Building an API? In the midst of building an API for Intervals, our web-based project management software, we researched several options for authentication. In case you are considering building your own API, we’ve published an overview of each method below. HTTP Basic Authentication. Similar implementations: Basecamp (http://developer.37signals.com/basecamp/), blogger (deprecated) (http://code.blogger.com/archives/atom-docs.html#authentication) Requests are authenticated in the […]
| June 16th, 2009
Part 4 in a 5 part series Know when to say no—set client expectations We all want to make our clients happy, build a good reputation, and land more work, but occasionally the best way to manage a project that is running amok is to know when to cut it off. When a client has […]
John is a co-founder, web designer and developer at Pelago.
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Michael is a co-founder and product architect at Pelago.
His contributions stem from experiences managing the development process behind web sites and web-based applications such as Intervals.
Michael drives a 1990 Volkswagen Carat with a rebuilt 2.4 liter engine from GoWesty.
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