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Category: Behind-the-Scenes

What Makes a Good Help Section?

One of our next big projects is to improve the Harvest Help & Support section.  The current FAQ format has served us well, but the section became unruly as Harvest expanded and help content accumulated.  My next project is to take the additional information we’ve gained and redesign “Harvest Help.”  To prepare, I’ve been researching [...]

How To Generate Excel Files with Ruby

While Harvest provides powerful reports sometimes nothing beats having all of your data in a spreadsheet.  Unfortunately, the defacto spreadsheet tool (Excel) has some tricky file formats, making programatic export more difficult than it should be. We recently made improvements to how we handle Excel exports in Harvest, and I’d like to share a few [...]

Harvest Attends BizConf 2010

For the second year in a row, Harvest was pleased to sponsor BizConf, which took place at the Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island, Florida. With fewer than 100 attendees, there is plenty of opportunity to get to know everyone in attendance, and our own Prime Hacker Barry Hess and Systems Administrator Warwick Poole went down to scope out [...]

Walkabout NYC – Open House for Startups

On Friday, June 10th (tomorrow!), seize the opportunity to stop by over 20 New York City-based startups and technology companies as they welcome visitors to drop by to see their spaces, learn about their services, and meet the teams. We’re proud to present Walkabout NYC!

Since the day we set up our first desks for the company, [...]

When Networks Attack

Not everyone on the Internet plays nicely. Recently Harvest has been affected by DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) network attacks directed at sites with equipment physically near our equipment in our primary datacenter. There are some bad forces on the Internet and in the last few weeks there have been two incidents where those bad [...]

Come Out And Meet the Team in NYC

Join us for a drink next Wednesday, June 9th, between 6-8pm, and say hello to the guys and gals that make Harvest run.  We’re hosting a gathering of customers, partners, and friends at Brinkley’s, just around the corner from Harvest HQ in Soho. We’d love to share a drink with you, introduce you to each [...]

Office Potluck at Harvest HQ, Round Two

We’ve decided to start a tradition of monthly potluck lunches here at Harvest HQ, and yesterday, everyone really stepped up their game.  The potluck lunch is a great way for everyone at the HQ and our friends to enjoy each others company, and show off some surprising culinary skills.

Introducing Hobby: A Celebration of Spare-Time Recreational Pursuits

While we spend our days here at Harvest listening to our customers and continually improving our service, we all have outside interests that keep us busy.  In honor of the often under-represented activity of the hobby, we’ve decided to host a monthly series called Hobby, beginning next Thursday, February 11th at our New York City [...]

Office Potluck at Harvest HQ

We hosted our first Harvest HQ Potluck Lunch today, and we’re still reeling from the immense amount of homemade goodness!  Everyone here has a big love of food, and our shared lunches often involve lively discussions and debates with whomever happens to be around and hungry at the same time.  We decided to invite our [...]

Responsible Giving to Aid the Haitian Relief Efforts

Here at Harvest, we’ve been shocked by the news of the devastation in Haiti due to an earthquake just a few short days ago.  We’ve all seen the images and stories of the disaster, and all of us wanted to reach out and help in some way.  We were overwhelmed by the options available of where to [...]