| May 12th, 2011
It seems like there is a lot of voodoo that goes on in the SEO world, but the truth is most SEO practices are quite practical and applicable to web sites and web-based applications. One such practice is the usage of 301 redirects. The 301 status code is used to tell web browsers and search […]
| May 4th, 2011
A fast loading web page is an important factor that heavily weighs into a user’s experience on your web site. And it’s not just your audience taking notice of how quickly a page loads into their browser, Google uses this metric as part of their PageRank algorithm. Web designers and developers who are creating web […]
| April 26th, 2011
This post discusses how developers at Intervals switched from using PDFLib in a single page load for PDF exports to wkhtmltopdf in multiple processes to allow for improved PDF appearance, reduced server load, and enhanced usability for the end user. The Search for a New PDF Library One awesome feature of Intervals is that it […]
| April 20th, 2011
A recent study by James Levine, a researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., has uncovered some fascinating facts about how severely inactivity affects us. As it turns out, going to the gym, and exercising in general, may not be enough to overcome sitting in front of a monitor all day. From the New […]
| April 13th, 2011
We’ve all been there. Stuck in a job we hate. Listening to the minutes tick by like days while we stare out the window. Wishing we were anywhere but here. A bad work experience can be demoralizing and dehumanizing. It can turn the most ambitious of us into a withered trunk of a person. So […]
| April 5th, 2011
In my experience as a web developer at Pelago I’ve helped develop several web-based applications that required more than just an out-of-the box database configuration. While 99% of the online apps we’ve built can get by on a MySQL or PostgreSQL database with little to no configuration, the few that do require optimizations will certainly […]
| April 5th, 2011
Take a look at what one of our customers was able to cook up using node.js and the Intervals time tracking API. It’s a command line interface to time tracking. For those of us who spend a lot of their time in terminal clients, a command line method for adding time to our Intervals account […]
| April 1st, 2011
A review of various Linux distros running on the Asus 901 eeePC. Us web designers and developers have grown accustomed to working with Linux on development and production servers. Most of the web sites and web-based applications we build run on some flavor of Linux. Whether it’s PHP, Python, or Rails, Linux is serving it […]
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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