You’re hip. You’re cool. (You are reading this site so the cool factor is now officially indisputable) You know that your website is crucial if you are going to survive in the current very tech savvy business jungle. But is a site enough? What’s this deal about a blog? A shopping cart? When did it… Read more »
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New Kid on the Blog
Hi y’all, Holly here! I’m so excited to be a part of the ZippyKid team. Yes, I’m here to act as your personal account rep and would love for you to drop me a line anytime. I know how cool it is to have a new site up and running but I also know that… Read more »
Multivariate Testing, PHP Frameworks, Plea for help.
I was curious if anyone has any experience with Multivariate (A/B) testing with PHP Frameworks. I found http://phpabtest.com/ yesterday, but I haven’t heard of anyone using it in production yet. Nor have I been able to gather how easily or well it integrates with Symfony, or other frameworks that introduce some level of caching. Here’s what… Read more »
Managing WordPress and other PHP projects with Ruby
The past month or so has given us a lot of blog posts on how, and why we should use automated build and deploy systems. One of the best deployment systems out there (imho), is by the Ruby community, and it’s called Capistrano. We’ve been using it internally since this summer to manage and deploy… Read more »
You have no clue. Or, "Release Early, Release Often" in laymen's terms.
I don’t have much to add to this, this just a great post. It explains the ‘release early, release often’ mantra very well. As an entrepreneur who’s busy building/fine tuning and releasing his own application to the world, this is a great refresher. I don’t know what I’m doing, the past 4 months lay out… Read more »
Is the Tom Tom Car Kit for iPhone worth $119?
No. If this was twitter, I’d end it right there, but here’s my reasoning: TomTom GPS Enhancer: With this kit, the iPhone 3GS takes literally less than 3 seconds to locate my position. I tried it inside a parking garage, and on the highway, (i hard rebooted the phone both times). This is pretty nice,… Read more »
Netbeans crashing under Snow Leopard – possible fix
If you’re using Netbeans in Snow Leopard, and are noticing a lot of random crashes, help is on the way. Thanks to an idea by Keith Casey, I decided to upgrade the JVM/JDK/JRE that comes with Snow Leopard. The default version that ships is currently 1.6.0.15, I upgraded to the developer preview of 1.6.0_17 and… Read more »
San Antonio gets 4G Coverage, thanks to Sprint and Clear
I’ve been waiting for 4G to come to San Antonio, TX for a long time. It’s finally here as of November 2009. What’s interesting is the way that’s available. I can either get it through Sprint with a 2 year contract, or I can get a no committment month to month plan from Clear. Being… Read more »
Internets on a plane!
I was trying come up with something along the lines of Snakes on a plane..I failed.. but still.. this post comes to you from 24,000 feet in the air. Courtesy of Gogo inflight, that provides Wifi in the air . Speedtest.net shows a 2mb download with a decent 512k upload. This is pretty cool, as… Read more »
Changing MySQL storage engine for one table in your Propel/Symfony project
I need one MyISAM table in my schema, I’m using Symfony 1.2 and Propel 1.3. As flexible as Symfony and it’s YAML files are, Propel currently doesn’t allow you to change the storage engine on the fly. You use the storage engine as specified in propel.ini. As discussed in the Propel FAQ . So, the… Read more »
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