Choosing a Content Management System

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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 »

New Kid on the Blog

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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.

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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 »

Is the Tom Tom Car Kit for iPhone worth $119?

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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

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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 »

Internets on a plane!

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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 »