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 »

SQL Error with Symfony 1.4.4 and MySQL 5.5

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I ran into an interesting bug/fact today while messing around with MySQL 5.5. It seems that in the DDL, you can’t say “Type=InnoDB|MyISAM|Foo” anymore. You have to say “Engine=InnoDB”. This will break your propel:build-all , or propel:build-all-load .. or if you manually try to execute the sql from data/sql/*. You’ll get the following error: You… 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 »

Talking to multiple databases with Symfony 1.2

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Notes on using Symfony with multiple databases. I’m building a new application in symfony, and I need to use some data from an existing application written by another developer. I can’t just extend the existing application for reasons we don’t need to get into, but I do need to interface with the data, since the… Read more »