Author Archives: John Reeve

ISO 8601 Date Validation That Doesn’t Suck

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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 […]

Ubuntu Linux: How to setup a VPN connection to a SonicWall router using Openswan and Pre-shared Keys (PSK)

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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 […]

Project management software is not sexy

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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 […]

Recent Intervals Updates

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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 […]

Online time tracking software will save you money

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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 […]

Project & Time Management Tools For Designers and Agencies

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We’d like to thank one of our customers, JLD Creative, for the blog post on Project & Time Management Tools For Designers and Agencies. After reviewing several web-based options — Intervals, FunctionFox, Studiometry, GoPlan, Harvest, Basecamp, Workamajig, Side Job Track, and Clients & Profits — here is what they had to say about Intervals: We’ve […]