Tag Archives: development

Clever release names for creative developers

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Ubuntu and its alliterative, animal themes, are the first thing that comes to our minds when we think of noticeable nomenclatures used by developers — in place of boring, old-fashioned numbers — to label significant releases. More recently they’ve released Lucid Lynx, Maverick Meerkat, and Natty Narwhal. As I write this they are working on […]

Bootstrapping Your Creative Web Design and Development Ideas

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A web design, development, or creative agency is a relatively easy type of small business to start. You just need a few computers, some spare office space and a few creative minds who are willing to make sacrifices (you’d need an entire blog post to cover dry seasons, erratic cash flow, client conflicts, etc). Your […]

Looking Back On My First Time @ SXSW

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For as long as I’ve been doing web design and development I must confess that this was my first year attending the famed SXSW festival. My cohorts at Pelago are all SXSW veterans and were willing to drag me along as their token noob, so I jumped at the chance to finally go and see […]

When to add features with Hosted Software

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Hosted software has so many benefits that this post is not intended to defend Software as a Service, but rather discuss our process for adding features. One of the amazing yet very tricky things about hosted software is growing and evolving the software without making it bloatware or getting pulled into overly customizing it. Once […]