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The Great 2011 SXSW Scavenger Hunt 4 Mar 2011 | 02:01 pm
This year the Pelago team will be attending the Interactive portion of South by Southwest in Austin, TX. This year will mark the fourth year that we have attended, and we’ve noticed that over the year...
The Elusive Chrome 9 Blank Page Problem 4 Mar 2011 | 01:46 pm
AKA the images with negative margins problem. Prior to our most recent update of Intervals we started to get bug reports from customers telling us that when they tried to view certain tasks, certain ...
Secret Santa Name Picker Script 23 Nov 2010 | 10:06 am
In the last ten years we’ve been gathering for our annual Pelago holiday party we’ve developed a fun Secret Santa tradition. The theme of the gift exchange is t-shirts. Each person picks a name from a...
Breaking the “rules” of web development 20 Jan 2010 | 12:58 pm
I’ve been developing for the web long enough — since my foray into PERL and HTML in 1994 — to know that there will always be a certain “rules” developers will adhere to when banging out lines of code....
Crunchbang Linux a Speedy Alternative to Ubuntu 7 Nov 2009 | 06:08 am
Built using only Ubuntu, Crunchbang Linux has boiled down its distribution offering only the bare minimum needed to have a good balance between speed and functionality. Though not intended for older h...
How to make Ubuntu Linux run faster on a laptop 22 Jul 2009 | 08:20 am
If you google around on the web you will find there are several tutorials on how to make your Ubuntu Linux installation run faster — especially on older hardware. These tips are very useful and range ...
Face detection in pure PHP 26 Jun 2009 | 05:35 am
Face detection in pure PHP Technical description.
PHP crons, linux, and the hostname 29 May 2009 | 06:20 am
When running PHP as a cron, the $_SERVER['HOSTNAME'] variable is not set, nor are any other variables that will identify which server your cron is running on. This can be problematic if you are runnin...
ISO 8601 Date Validation That Doesn’t Suck 21 May 2009 | 04:38 am
UPDATED February 19th, 2010: As BobM pointed out, the original solution to this problem didn’t account for fractional decimals. Originally I didn’t include them because Intervals didn’t require that l...
Ubuntu Linux: How to setup a VPN connection to a SonicWall router using Openswan and Pre-shared Keys (PSK) 19 May 2009 | 07:27 am
Contents Background Configuring the Sonicwall Router Installing Openswan Configuring Openswan Starting and stopping the VPN connection References Background Pelago is a web design and developm...
