| January 25th, 2008
On one of our sites were were running into a problem when we tried to pass HTML content from a database through an email obfuscation function to prevent spiders from scraping our clients’ email addresses. We quickly discovered that some of the longer pages were showing up completely blank. The preg_replace() function we were using […]
| January 24th, 2008
Although Intervals was developed primarily for time tracking and task management for web development, design, IT, and PR firms, we’ve noticed people using it in clever and creative ways. There are businesses who use Intervals to comply with various industry regulations — because it tracks time, task, and project histories so well — such as […]
| January 24th, 2008
Every few years the snow levels in Santa Barbara drop low enough — 2,000 feet — that we wake up to snow on our local mountains. Here is the view from home today.
| January 23rd, 2008
As a developer I work much better once I have a list of tasks in front of me. I’m also required to sit in many meetings, which conclude with me trying to distill action items from the various topics of discussion. I’ve tried notepads, which work well, but rely on me recalling conversations behind numerous, […]
| January 18th, 2008
From the very start, before any code was written, we decided Intervals would be a chance for us to refine our philosophy of lightweight project management; time and task tracking coupled with reporting and invoicing. We’d done the heavy lifting in the past, using microsoft project, wallpapering our office with Gantt charts, allocating resources; it […]
| January 17th, 2008
As Michael and I walked back to the car after a late-afternoon client meeting, we got out our cellphones to check our email. It was the end of the day; neither of us needed to go back to work, except that we had timers running. Ideally, we’d have been able to update our timers from […]
| January 16th, 2008
The Smiley Cat Web Design Blog has a amassed an impressive collection of web design elements, useful for comparing design treatments from a wide variety of web designers. They are collecting everything from blog comment form examples, to typography. The pricing tables page is notable because the they are relatively new design elements in the […]
| January 15th, 2008
2008 is here and we’ve identified our usual resolutions goals; ride our bikes to work more often, telecommute whenever possible, use less, spend less, etc, et al. We know that resolutions often fail, so we need to be realistic with the promises we make to ourselves. The same applies to Intervals. We do not want […]
