Speeding Up PHP Web Apps With Xdebug and Cachegrind

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As a Web development agency we do our best to ensure applications will perform under a variety of customer conditions. But, we can never account for every scenario before launching our app out into the wild. There is a good chance the application will encounter slowness at some point. It could be a week after launch, or a […]

Buying Web-based Project Management Software

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The adoption rate of web-based project management software among small businesses has been steadily increasing the last few years. Businesses are embracing the software’s ability to connect remote teams and reduce IT budgets. In light of this trend, the folks at SoftwareAdvice.com, an online project management technology consultancy, have put together a buyers report based on their […]

Magento and the Intervals Emogrifier Class

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When we originally developed the “Email this Page” feature for Intervals, we faced a significant hurdle. How were we going to combine the HTML and the external CSS into one email so clients like Gmail, Outlook, and Mac Mail, could display the email properly? These email clients do not play nice with external CSS, nor […]

New Intervals Feature: The Task Snapshot Report

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Intervals provides a comprehensive set of reports to help our customers get a better understanding of their time tracking and billing efforts. But during recent conversations with our customers , we got the feeling a report was missing. Questions about task productivity reports began bubbling up to the top. Questions like… How can I calculate the number of […]

Three Ways to Break Down a Project into Manageable Tasks

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You’ve shaken hands with the client, filed away the signed contract, and deposited your first payment. Now what? Before your team can dive into a project, the project manager must break down the scope of work into smaller, manageable tasks. This first step can seem daunting at first. Especially on larger projects. But once you […]

How Intervals Gives Back to the Environment

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A local environmental group, LoaTree, was kind enough to include us in an article about 1% for the Planet members in our local community. From the article: Pelago Design, a software service provider, offers their web based time tracking, task management and reporting software to web designers in over 100 countries. But don’t let their […]

When Projects Go Over Budget: The Usual Suspects

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Projects can and will go over budget. In my many years of running a web design and development agency I learned that no project is bulletproof, that even our best laid plans can go astray. And when the project did go over budget, it was typically the result of poor planning and a lack of […]

Introducing the Unlimited Plan

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  Our  new top tier plan includes unlimited people, projects, tasks, and documents. An ideal solution for agencies who don’t want to worry about limitations. Our customers give us a lot of great feedback and ideas. One of the most common requests we get is to add more document storage.  So a few months ago […]