| August 13th, 2008
This month, Pelago celebrates its ninth year of life as a web development agency. In those nine years we’ve worked on 339 projects for 105 clients. We’ve built everything from basic brochure web sites to complex data crunching web applications. And we’ve dealt with just about every type of client you can imagine. Here are […]
| August 11th, 2008
While working on the “email this page” feature in Intervals we needed to find a way to merge HTML & CSS files into a Frankenstein-like document that gmail would honor. Quick back story — gmail doesn’t play nice with conventionally defined CSS. We came up with the Emogrifier, a PHP utility we are adding to […]
| August 6th, 2008
I once worked as a graphic designer for a small marketing group that would place ads for golf clubs in the backs of various magazines. These ads were typical of what you would see in the back of a magazine — volumes of text and photos crammed into the 8.5 x 11 confines of the […]
| July 31st, 2008
The era of the lightweight framework is in full swing and has enabled developers to quickly execute everything from our most random inklings to more advanced and complex ideas. We can have an application up and running in minutes. We’ve implemented the Model-View-Controller framework into our web site development projects, including Intervals, our web-based time […]
| July 31st, 2008
A few weeks back we sent out an email to all current Intervals account owners letting them about some upcoming features. The contents of that email are below. Task Flexibility Estimated launch: Next Few Weeks We are starting the process of making tasks less rigid to accommodate different types of work flows. End date is […]
| July 29th, 2008
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 and learn how to manage a development team if I […]
| July 18th, 2008
The recent Illustration Annual 49 from Communication Arts has an interesting artice titled “Analyze This, Web design in the age of numbers.” Unfortunately, you won’t find it online, so pull out your copy of CA if you have it. The author ponders the relationship between the abstracts of design theory and the quantifiable influence of […]
| July 18th, 2008
Intervals customers will soon be able to group tasks into a milestone and assign it an owner and a deadline. The home page will be transformed into a calendar view — a scheduling dashboard — tying together tasks starting, tasks ending, milestones, and weekly time tracked. The calendar view will allow customers to quickly reorganize […]
John is a co-founder, web designer and developer at Pelago.
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Michael is a co-founder and product architect at Pelago.
His contributions stem from experiences managing the development process behind web sites and web-based applications such as Intervals.
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