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	<title>A blog about time tracking, task management project management, and other useful tales and tips,  from the minds at Intervals &#187; web development</title>
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		<title>How Web Designers and Developers can Contribute to Open Source Projects</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2012/01/18/how-web-designers-and-developers-can-contribute-to-open-source-projects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most Web designers and developers I&#8217;ve met use Open Source projects in some way. We design using free icons and develop on a LAMP stack. Popular MVC frameworks are widely used and supported. It&#8217;s rather difficult for a Web designer or developer to get very far without Open Source software. Most of the Open Source [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Design and Development Business Tips:3 Ways to Regulate Your Revenue</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2011/11/01/web-design-and-development-business-tips3-ways-to-regulate-your-revenue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As any freelancer and web design and development agency owner is well aware, regulating revenue is a difficult task. Ebbs and flows of revenue have lead to the expression &#8220;feast or famine,&#8221; the roller coaster phenomenon that occurs without any seasonality or predictability. During the many years we designed web sites and developed web-based software, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Flags to Look Out for when Contracting New Web Design and Development  Clients</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2011/10/25/red-flags-to-look-out-for-when-contracting-new-web-design-and-development-clients/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2011/10/25/red-flags-to-look-out-for-when-contracting-new-web-design-and-development-clients/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The team here at Pelago has been designing and developing web sites and web-based applications together for eleven years now &#8212; and individually since long before that. In this time, we&#8217;ve worked with a broad spectrum of clients. While we&#8217;ve been fortunate to work with a long list of stellar clients, we have had our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Configure Your Web-based Application to Receive Email Using Wildcard Virtual Subdomains, Postfix and Linux</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2011/07/14/configure-your-web-based-application-to-receive-email-using-wildcard-virtual-subdomains-postfix-and-linux/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2011/07/14/configure-your-web-based-application-to-receive-email-using-wildcard-virtual-subdomains-postfix-and-linux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Intervals News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linux]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many web-based applications, including online project management software, feature the ability to accept and process emails. For example, an incoming email may be tweeted, posted to flickr, or appended to a task. The online abundance of productivity tools has helped us get out of our inboxes, but they haven&#8217;t replaced email entirely. In fact, many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Back on Old School Web Design &amp; Development Methods</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2011/06/30/looking-back-on-old-school-web-design-development-methods/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2011/06/30/looking-back-on-old-school-web-design-development-methods/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Web, as we know it today, has advanced a considerable amount from it&#8217;s original incarnation.  HTML hasn&#8217;t changed as much as the web browser,  and web designer and developers have advocated and implemented higher standards in their work. From CSS improvements to better use of semantic HTML, the Web has (mostly) become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calculate the number of lines in a CSV file using PHP and Linux&#8230; without loading the file into application memory</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2011/06/21/calculate-the-number-of-lines-in-a-csv-file-using-php-and-linux/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2011/06/21/calculate-the-number-of-lines-in-a-csv-file-using-php-and-linux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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When parsing large text files, particularly CSV files, web developers often need to know the number of lines contained in the file up front. This is useful for a number of reasons, for example, displaying a progress meter while parsing the large file, or estimating how long the parsing process might take. There are two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web-based Application Development Tip: Protect Your &#8220;Tenants&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2011/06/17/web-based-application-development-tip-protecting-your-tenants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2011/06/17/web-based-application-development-tip-protecting-your-tenants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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According to the New York times, thieves were able to capture the names, account numbers, e-mail addresses and transaction histories of more than 200,000 Citi customers, using the Citigroup customer web site. This isn&#8217;t the first time a financial institution has had its data compromised. What is so alarming about this particular security breach was [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Four Ways Web Design and Development Agencies Can Give Back</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2011/05/26/four-ways-web-design-and-development-agencies-can-give-back/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2011/05/26/four-ways-web-design-and-development-agencies-can-give-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 18:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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Web design and development agencies are typically small businesses where the creative and engineering types flourish in a loosely structured company culture. The few formalities us web designers and developers must comply with usually revolve around deadlines, workflow, meetings, and clients. Overall, it&#8217;s not a bad gig, it&#8217;s the type of environment where web designers [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Simple SEO Tips for Web Designers and Developers: The 301 Redirect</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2011/05/12/301-redirect-simple-seo-tips-for-web-designers-and-developers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2011/05/12/301-redirect-simple-seo-tips-for-web-designers-and-developers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 03:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Web-based Application Database Design and Infrastructure</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2011/04/05/web-based-application-database-design-and-infrastructure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2011/04/05/web-based-application-database-design-and-infrastructure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 23:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2011/04/06/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my experience as a web developer at Pelago I&#8217;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&#8217;ve built can get by on a MySQL or PostgreSQL database with little to no configuration, the few that do require optimizations will certainly [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Revisiting Web Design Decisions Behind the Intervals Mobile App</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2011/03/08/revisiting-web-design-decisions-behind-the-intervals-mobile-ui/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2011/03/08/revisiting-web-design-decisions-behind-the-intervals-mobile-ui/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Intervals Mobile UI launched 7 months ago. In that time we&#8217;ve been collecting feedback from our customers and using it quite a bit ourselves. We&#8217;ve also been busy architecting the next few features, which will include more client, project and milestone management. 
When we originally launched the mobile UI, we wrote about what it [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>How Many Hats Does it Take to Design, Develop and Deploy a Web-based App?</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2011/01/20/how-many-hats-does-it-take-to-design-develop-and-deploy-a-web-based-app/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2011/01/20/how-many-hats-does-it-take-to-design-develop-and-deploy-a-web-based-app/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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Almost every web designer or developer I&#8217;ve met has a great idea for the next killer web-based app. And I must admit, a lot of the ideas I here are good ones. In fact, I&#8217;m a firm believer that success does not come from great ideas, but from great execution. So let&#8217;s say you&#8217;ve got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Web Developers Toolbox; What Should You Know?</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2010/11/09/the-web-developers-toolbox-what-should-you-know/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2010/11/09/the-web-developers-toolbox-what-should-you-know/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The list of responsibilities that differentiate a web designer from a web developer from a system administrator is becoming fuzzier as those working in these fields become cross-trained. The necessity for a web developer to focus on her core competency while also dabbling in relevant technologies is a result of web sites and web-based applications [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Get Fired as a Freelance Web Designer or Developer</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2010/10/25/how-to-get-fired-as-a-freelance-web-designer-or-developer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2010/10/25/how-to-get-fired-as-a-freelance-web-designer-or-developer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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Over the last ten years that Pelago has been doing in web design, development and creative work, we&#8217;ve worked with our fair share of freelancers. Several of us at Pelago, in fact, worked as freelancers at one time or another before settling down in our current full-time positions. Most of our experiences with freelancers have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Web Designers Need to Know Web Development?</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2010/09/16/do-web-designers-need-to-know-web-development/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2010/09/16/do-web-designers-need-to-know-web-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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&#8220;&#8230;basic front-end knowledge should be possessed by anyone who calls themselves a web designer&#8221;
&#8212; Elliot Jay Stocks
Web designers who can&#8217;t code

Most web developers, including myself, have gone through the experience of working with a web designer who is completely unfamiliar with web development. The comps arrive as an EPS at some random screen resolution with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Tips for Developing Web-based Applications</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2010/08/17/tips-for-developing-web-based-applications/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2010/08/17/tips-for-developing-web-based-applications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[online software]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take a quick look at the online productivity software landscape and you will see there are plenty of options to choose from. This as a good thing, after all, project managers, web designers, web developers, and creatives are a thorough and intelligent bunch and highly capable of vetting out the best web-based applications that will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Reasons NOT to Redesign Your Web Site</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2010/08/10/five-reasons-not-to-redesign-your-web-site/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2010/08/10/five-reasons-not-to-redesign-your-web-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.myintervals.com/blog/?p=1684</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Web designers and web developers are tinkerers by nature. We love to fine-tune our creative ideas until they are somewhere close to perfection, despite our definition of perfection being in a constant state of flux. If our web site design does begin to approximate perfection, the inevitable happens. We come up with 101 reasons why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intervals Blog Listed in Top 50 Productivity Blogs To Watch in 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2010/07/01/intervals-blog-listed-in-top-50-productivity-blogs-to-watch-in-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2010/07/01/intervals-blog-listed-in-top-50-productivity-blogs-to-watch-in-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.myintervals.com/blog/?p=1637</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To help out small businesses wanting to know how to best spend the limited time resources they have, evancarmichael.com has posted its list of the Top 50 Productivity Blogs to Watch in 2010. The list includes links to blogs for getting things done, increasing productivity at work, getting organized, personal productivity, and our favorite, lifestyle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We F*cked Up ~ Observations from SXSWi</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2010/03/31/we-f-cked-up-observations-from-sxsw-interactiv-web-design-and-development/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2010/03/31/we-f-cked-up-observations-from-sxsw-interactiv-web-design-and-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

&#8220;You need failure more than you need success. Success breeds repetition. Failure breeds change.&#8221;

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 shared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Neverending Project</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2009/10/27/project-management-tips-the-neverending-project/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2009/10/27/project-management-tips-the-neverending-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.myintervals.com/blog/?p=1145</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Project delays are one of the most common pitfalls that can keep even the best project managers, web designers and web developers from launching a web site online. Delays can come in all shapes and sizes but they have one thing in common. They can run any project into the ground and keep designers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So, You&#8217;ve Developed a Web-based Application. Now What?</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2009/09/22/web-based-software-development-tip/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2009/09/22/web-based-software-development-tip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.myintervals.com/blog/?p=1046</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many web development agencies out there who are finding themselves in the same predicament Pelago was in five years ago. The nature of a web development business is that in solving business problems online for others, we often find it just as simple to solve our own. So we developed our own internal [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>What NOT to do as a Creative Web Design and Development Agency</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2009/09/01/what-not-to-do-as-a-creative-web-design-and-development-agency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2009/09/01/what-not-to-do-as-a-creative-web-design-and-development-agency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[creative]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.myintervals.com/blog/?p=1018</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pelago just celebrated it&#8217;s ninth birthday, a milestone marked by a history of having worked on 300-plus projects for over 100 clients. The one component of our business model that made us the most successful was our commitment to web design and development mediums, to the nuts and bolts of designing and building web sites, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Different Brand of Creativity</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2009/08/04/web-design-and-development-agencies-a-different-brand-of-creativity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2009/08/04/web-design-and-development-agencies-a-different-brand-of-creativity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.myintervals.com/blog/?p=951</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was only eleven years ago when I graduated from design school at Cal Poly SLO, my diploma a pedigree and my portfolio a resume.  Having underwent an extensive training in the traditional principals of graphic design I began interviewing with reputable design firms. A few job offers later, I had strong reservations about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web site maintenance: a revenue stream for IT companies in a weakened economy</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2009/07/14/web-site-maintenance-a-revenue-stream-for-it-companies-in-a-weakened-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2009/07/14/web-site-maintenance-a-revenue-stream-for-it-companies-in-a-weakened-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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Last week I was having lunch with a friend who works for an IT company. Having a web developer on board, they were looking for ways to increase their revenues by fielding more web design and development projects. The catch, however, was that managing web design and development projects can be a whole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web development frustration: The web designer</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2009/07/07/project-management-tips-for-resolving-web-developer-frustrations-with-web-designers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2009/07/07/project-management-tips-for-resolving-web-developer-frustrations-with-web-designers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo by e-magic
There has been plenty of venting in the blogosphere about the difficulty and frustration that ensues when dealing with web developers. In fact, we&#8217;ve contributed to this topic ourselves when we wrote about The Myopic Web Developer. In an ideal world there would be a unity between the designer and the developer, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The remote web developer</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2009/04/09/the-remote-web-developer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2009/04/09/the-remote-web-developer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.myintervals.com/blog/?p=674</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday morning at our weekly breakfast meeting we were discussing what it would look like to do web development remotely for Pelago. We brainstormed a few ideas and came up with a pretty cool solution on how we would want to be setup if we had the opportunity to work offsite for a few days, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should web designers and developers bill time spent in meetings?</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2009/01/15/should-web-designers-and-developers-bill-time-spent-in-meetings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2009/01/15/should-web-designers-and-developers-bill-time-spent-in-meetings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.myintervals.com/blog/?p=397</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Absolutely, and i&#8217;ll tell you why:

Meetings are a usage of your time. If you are not billing them for that meeting, than you aren&#8217;t billing anyone for that time. Too many meetings and you start losing money.
Meetings will almost always require some transfer of knowledge from you to the client. We&#8217;ve never been in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting the project before the scope</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2008/12/16/putting-the-project-before-the-scope/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2008/12/16/putting-the-project-before-the-scope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.myintervals.com/blog/?p=366</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Conventional wisdom dictates that any web design &#038; development project should start out with a detailed scope of work, especially when flat bidding a project. This scope document is a road map, a guide dictating what stays in and what gets jettisoned in order to keep the project under budget and on time. 
That would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choosing a web design &amp; development team for your next project</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2008/11/18/choosing-a-web-design-development-team-for-your-next-project/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2008/11/18/choosing-a-web-design-development-team-for-your-next-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.myintervals.com/blog/?p=352</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You’ve got a great idea for a web site and you are looking for a talented team of web designers and developers to get the job done. You don’t want to get stuck with a firm that will over promise and under deliver, or worse, vanish altogether in the middle of a project. How do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choosing the right partner for your web design &amp; development projects</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2008/11/11/choosing-the-right-partner-for-your-web-design-development-projects/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2008/11/11/choosing-the-right-partner-for-your-web-design-development-projects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.myintervals.com/blog/?p=351</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Smaller web design &#038; development teams, as well as freelancers, will often find themselves partnering with other professional service providers when working on larger projects. There may be copywriters, graphic designers, brand managers, system administrators, and database specialists, just to name a few, getting in the mix to form a larger, more complete team. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Lessons Learned from 9 Years as a Web Development Agency</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2008/08/13/5-lessons-learned-from-9-years-as-a-web-development-agency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2008/08/13/5-lessons-learned-from-9-years-as-a-web-development-agency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.myintervals.com/blog/?p=313</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This month, Pelago celebrates its ninth year of life as a web development agency. In those nine years we&#8217;ve worked on 339 projects for 105 clients. We&#8217;ve built everything from basic brochure web sites to complex data crunching web applications. And we&#8217;ve dealt with just about every type of client you can imagine. Here are [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tips From a Developer on Managing a Small Development Team</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2008/07/29/tips-from-a-developer-on-managing-a-small-development-team/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2008/07/29/tips-from-a-developer-on-managing-a-small-development-team/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.myintervals.com/blog/?p=307</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week our project manager took off to OSCON in Portland, leaving me, the lead developer, in charge of managing our small development team. Facing a gauntlet of client requests, developer questions, and miscellaneous tasks that fall somewhere in between, I had to adapt quickly if I was going to oversee our team&#8217;s (including my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Myopic Web Developer</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2008/07/01/the-myopic-web-developer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2008/07/01/the-myopic-web-developer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Photo by Jim Simonson
A common characteristic of most web developers is that we have tunnel vision when working our craft. Our ability to focus and accomplish narrowly defined tasks with speed and intensity is one of our greatest strengths. When working with a larger team, however, our reluctance to step outside the zone can hinder [...]]]></description>
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