| February 26th, 2008
The Internet is a great boon to small business productivity efforts, but it is also a distraction. The Internet leaks as much of our time, if not more, than television. This distraction negatively affects small businesses who track their time and charge by the hour, meaning they lose money to procrastination and decrease their free […]
| February 25th, 2008
Wednesday, March 5, Brooklyn-based “punk-rock orchestra” The World/Inferno Friendship Society will be playing at La Casa de la Raza (corner of Calle Cesar Chavez and Montecito St.) with a couple local bands. KCSB 91.9 FM and Telegraph Brewing are sponsoring the event, which will feature a beer garden, performance art, and a riding demonstration by […]
| February 25th, 2008
Estimating and tracking time is a learned discipline that does not come easy to most, including ourselves. One practice we found useful was to implement a ’round up’ feature in Intervals, to round up our timers to the nearest one-eighth (.125) of an hour. Why one-eighth? Because it’s a nice, neat number and is usually […]
| February 22nd, 2008
Here are a few links of interest that have recently registered on the Pelago radar. Tour of California Stage 6: Santa Barbara to Santa Clarita Head down to east beach Saturday, February 23rd, for the start of stage 6, a 105 mile ride to Santa Clarita. If you can, ride your bike or walk down, […]
| February 21st, 2008
I was fortunate to have studied graphic design at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, where I was educated and trained in several areas of design. I spent quarters at a time devoted solely to the disciplines of typography, editorial design, package design, and logo design. The experience was thorough, but it wasn’t complete. When I […]
| February 20th, 2008
Check out our contribution to Digital Web magazine; tips and advice on greening your business by John Reeve. Read the article to discover ways to increase awareness and efforts in the areas of environmental, social, and organizational sustainability.
| February 15th, 2008
One of the key components to any web-based project management service is collaboration. Does the service reduce barriers to participation and facilitate collaboration? Whether or not a service touts it, collaboration among team members has to be addressed as part of the worfkow. We’ve interpreted the team dynamic into Intervals in several ways. Most importantly, […]
| February 14th, 2008
Last night we launched some significant updates to our web-based project management system, Intervals. These updates included upgrading to PostgreSQL to 8.3, tuning SQL queries to run faster, caching redundant data, and implementing more ajax code to decrease page loads. What can you expect to see as a result of the upgrade? Task lists and […]
