| 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 […]
| 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 […]
| 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 […]
| 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 […]
| May 7th, 2009
There is a lot of noise in the project management software marketplace. It can be difficult to find the right one for your small business. The funny thing about project management is that no matter how you dress it up — with swirly gradients, ajax goodness, and other web 2.0 bells and whistles — project […]
| May 5th, 2009
We’re upgrading all Intervals plans at no extra cost to you That’s right. We are upgrading all Intervals plans, at no extra cost to you, to include more document storage and more active projects. In addition, we’re adding SSL to the Not So Basic plan. Why are we doing this? Because we’ve been listening to […]
| April 21st, 2009
We are currently undergoing an exciting and historical moment in the age of small business. Despite being in the midst of a recession, small businesses are finding ways to adapt to, and evade, new economical pressures due to their size and agility. Waiting in the wings to help them through this next evolutionary phase are […]
| April 16th, 2009
It can be difficult to justify spending money on a monthly subscription to a web-based service that tracks your time. Whether it’s a freelancer shelling out $20 a month, or a small business paying $175 a month, it can become understandingly hard to quantify the return on such an investment. Here are a few alternative […]
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