| March 31st, 2010
“You need failure more than you need success. Success breeds repetition. Failure breeds change.” Going back through my notes from SXSWi in Austin, Texas, I find myself gravitating back toward a panel called We F*cked Up: Happy Cog and Friends, Exploring Failures, Together, where panelists from Happy Cog Studios, Seer Interactive, Airbag Industries, and Fastspot […]
| March 23rd, 2010
For as long as I’ve been doing web design and development I must confess that this was my first year attending the famed SXSW festival. My cohorts at Pelago are all SXSW veterans and were willing to drag me along as their token noob, so I jumped at the chance to finally go and see […]
| March 9th, 2010
I’ll be the first to admit that I am not a seasoned expert in the art of invoicing clients. Although the availability of easy-to-use online invoicing software has made invoicing easier, I’ve learned most about this delicate practice from my business-minded partners at Pelago. When a designer and/or developer, like myself, enters into the fray […]
| March 2nd, 2010
Time tracking has been a point of contention between developers and managers for as long as I’ve been working in the web design and development industry. That’s sixteen years. I’ve been on both sides of the issue working as both a web developer and as a manager. Tracking your time as a web developer is […]
| February 23rd, 2010
Now that you’ve drummed up some business as a freelancer, a web design and development shop, or a creative agency, it’s time to start collecting money owed. Using a well designed invoice is the easiest way to bill your clients. If you use an accounting program like QuickBooks or an online project management application like Intervals, […]
| February 17th, 2010
The fun part of being a designer, developer or creative, is solving problems in new and unique ways, building up our portfolio with examples of real-world client work. The creative process is what we thrive on. Whether we are knee deep in web development code or up all night bringing our design ideas to life, […]
| February 3rd, 2010
We are, and always have been, big fans of open source software. In our daily workflow at Pelago we use various open source technologies; PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Linux, Apache, Subversion, and many others. We primarily use these open source technologies in developing Intervals, our online time, task and project management software, and in designing and […]
| January 26th, 2010
I recently brought home a new laptop. After getting all of my favorite apps installed and customizing my desktop, it was time to get to work. As a web designer and developer most of the work I do has an online component, making working remotely from home, or the local coffee shop, ideal. That isn’t […]
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.
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