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SuperMango Media, Combining Code & Comedy
SuperMango Media is an interactive agency specializing in helping funny people strategically brand themselves. By continually evolving, SuperMango Media has been able to nimbly navigate from the idea of a business, to securing funding, to...Thebes: A New, Minimal Sphinx Gem for Rails
Recently, we’ve been sharing a lot of technical lessons from building our new Help Center and in upgrading Harvest to Rails 3. The gem Harvest is releasing today, Thebes, is at the intersection of both projects. Thebes is a wrapper around Sphinx,...Easy Rails Asset Handling with HTML5 & S3
While working on the new Harvest Help Center, our team had a chance to look at some common web-app issues with fresh eyes. Asset upload is almost certainly a requirement of any modern document-based web site, usually for images or general...A New Rails 3 Positioning Library: RankedModel
When we started work on the new Harvest Help Center, it was with the fresh perspective of our recent Rails 3 upgrades. We looked for a simple row sorting solution, but the traditional plugin ActsAsList is showing it’s age with old ActiveRecord...Harvest Upgrades to Rails 3
Harvest is on Rails 3! This is exciting news from the Harvest technical team. I’ll detail how the upgrade process went, but first a little history. The initial commit to Harvest was made on November 23rd, 2005 – five years ago. Back then, we ran...Cadence, Making Time for Work and Play
Rebecca Bradley and Gage Couch made the leap from their steady paying-great benefits-corporate jobs and struck out on their own with Cadence, a site planning and landscape architecture firm with a big heart and a lot of soul (they even make thank...Beowulf Farms, Using iPhones to Track Time In the Field
Beowulf Farm trains and breeds horse in British Columbia, and co-owners Eric Denhoff and Karin MacMillan wrote us to let us know that since the industry standard equestrian billing software available was not up to snuff for them, they were using...Cloud Tools Working Together – Outright Integrates With Harvest
UPDATE: Outright was acquired by Go Daddy in July of 2012. We are excited to announce that Harvest now works with Outright, an online bookkeeping and accounting tool. Outright.com is a leading provider of online financial management for the...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....Start tracking time today
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