Ideas, insights, and inside looks at how modern teams collaborate, manage work, and scale smarter – with a dash of product updates and stories from the trenches
Mark Gjaltema, Chief Rebel from Rebel Projects, shares his storyWhen Rebel Projects started to grow a few years ago, we went looking for an online collaboration tool. Since we only work with freelancers and with no physical office, this tool would be the backbone of our company.We tried a simple setup ...
Customer Stories • • 2 min read
I was refactoring ActiveCollab’s datepicker and came across a problem: to close the popover, I’d always have to trigger one extra keypress event.Chrome’s debuggerCommonly, you’d use JavaScript to attach an event handler to do something when you click a button on a web page. You’d create a button ...
Labs • • 2 min read
We’re happy to announce the integration with TestLodge, an online test case management tool that helps you:create test plansinput requirements,create and manage test cases and suites,perform multiple test runs,generate reports.If you track bugs and issues with ActiveCollab, this integration will save ...
Product • • 1 min read
PHP7 has a release date set: it’s November 12. As always, some of our users will stick to PHP5 for a while before upgrading and others will switch to v7 as soon as it becomes available. To make sure that ActiveCollab is not broken on v7, we started playing with it a bit earlier.For performance and ...
Labs • • 3 min read
The auto-upgrade feature that we introduced in ActiveCollab 3.3 changed the way people manage their self-hosted installations.It also gave us the means to ship improvements and bug fixes without overwhelming our customers with excess maintenance work. Thanks to auto-upgrade we shipped a lot of releases ...
Product • • 2 min read
Written by Logan LindquistLegacy Beta provides value for customers by building engaging and dynamic web-enabled applications. With over a decade of industry experience, LegacyBeta has the knowledge to meet all needs. They’ve worked with several top 10 Fortune 500 companies, as well as leading United ...
Customer Stories • • 2 min read
Vigilant Technologies is a tech company with HQ in Troy, Michigan (USA), and two more offices in Toronto (Canada) and Hyderabad (India). Their core services are implementing and upgrading Oracle applications, performing custom development work, and managing/augmenting clients’ IT departments. They ...
Customer Stories • • 3 min read
Customer story written by Ivana Tomas, Projects and IT process development consultant at InfostudInfostud is responsible for a family of useful websites everyone in Serbia knows about — for everything from finding jobs and student information to automobiles and travel. Their total monthly traffic exceeds ...
Customer Stories • • 2 min read
The new ActiveCollab is very different from the previous one, and our website reflects that. This time we had an underlying philosophy and our lead UX designer tied all the pieces together.Thanks to the Wayback Machine, we traveled back in time to see how our website evolved since 2006 when we published ...
Design • • 3 min read
You can use ActiveCollab in 21 languages! English, German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Polish, Italian, Swedish, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Turkish, Hungarian, Croatian, Slovenian, Serbian, Lithuanian, Romanian.Changing language is easy. Once you're in ActiveCollab ...
Product • • 1 min read
We rebuilt ActiveCollab Project Management Software (codename Feather) to make it more user-friendly.Here’s the technology we used on backend, frontend, our infrastructure and everything else.Front-EndWe use Angular as a basis for Feather front-end. The choice wasn’t random, and we did a lot of experimenting ...
Labs • • 4 min read
Here at R & W Media, a Magento design and development agency, we have a lot of small and large e-Commerce projects, so managing all of them is a mammoth task on its own. However, with ActiveCollab project management is made simple.In the beginning, we were managing projects and everyday tasks through ...
Customer Stories • • 3 min read