Client Management Video: Brilliant!
| June 1st, 2009
A hilariously funny youtube video capturing the vendor client relationship. Enjoy!
Web design business mistakes: Establishing clear practices
| May 28th, 2009
Part 1 in a 5 part series Establish clear practices from the start with your clients and your internal team A well-developed specification from a client often sets the stage for a smoothly executed project. It should include a comprehensive scope of work and ideal timelines. However, a clearly defined spec is hardly the norm, […]
I Madonnari 2009, Santa Barbara
| May 27th, 2009
For this year’s I Madonnari Festival at the Santa Barbara Mission Pelago sponsored an 8’x8′ square. We’d like to extend our thanks to Thomas and Lloyd for filling in as artists, and for executing a brilliant rendition of The Floor Scrapers by Gustave Caillebotte. The chalk drawing will be on display at the mission for […]
Online Project Management Software and Off Peak Living
| May 21st, 2009
I’m not sure if anyone has noticed, but the evenings, weekends, and holidays are becoming much more crowded. Parking spots are harder to find, the freeways are gridlocked, and the beaten path has extended its reach to every “secret spot” in existence. The concept of off peak living was born from this same observation by […]
ISO 8601 Date Validation That Doesn’t Suck
| May 20th, 2009
For the Intervals API, we’re wrestling with issues surrounding data input validation. This recently became interesting when the matter of date validation came up. Ordinarily, Intervals allows many, many different date formats, dependent on the locale that the customer is using (for example, Intervals may expect the date format ‘mm/dd/yyyy’ for US customers, ‘dd.mm.yy’ for […]
Online Project Management Software and My Two Weeks of Paternity Leave
| May 19th, 2009
I just had a son, my second, born three weeks ago. It was a day before his due date and I was working away, as usual, on several projects and tasks that needed to be completed before any babies could be born. That’s when I got the phone call. I had to run home, frantically […]
Ubuntu Linux: How to setup a VPN connection to a SonicWall router using Openswan and Pre-shared Keys (PSK)
| May 18th, 2009
Contents Background Configuring the Sonicwall Router Installing Openswan Configuring Openswan Starting and stopping the VPN connection References Background Pelago is a web design and development agency in Santa Barbara, California. Since our humble beginnings in August of 2000, we’ve seen the Internet landscape evolve exponentially in the last nine years. Our most current challenge as […]
New Intervals Improvements and Features
| May 7th, 2009
In the past couple of weeks, Intervals has undergone some major improvements, which have hopefully led to noticeable gains in performance and, in the case of the recent across-the-board plan upgrades, value. However, we’ve made a couple of less-noticeable changes recently that ought to go a long way to increasing the user experience. Use Timers […]
