Thanksgiving Hours

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Thanksgiving is a time for reflecting on the year, for family bonding, and for sweatpants after that second (third?) helping of apple pie. ZippyKid will be closed on Thanksgiving (this Thursday November 22nd) to spend time with our loved ones and friends.  But have no fear — we will still be around in case of… Read more »

ZippyKid and RePress plugin

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Hi Everyone, I hate writing this post, but this is the first time we at ZippyKid will be actively blocking your ability to do something that is technically, well within your rights as a human being. The RePress project has released an interesting plugin that lets your WordPress site become a proxy for sites that… Read more »

Fastest WordPress Sites around

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[styled_box color="blue" title="Some things to consider regarding your current load time."] [list type="bolt"] Amazon in 2007 revealed that for every 100ms increase in load time, sales would decrease 1%. In 2009 Akamai said that you could lose up to 33% of your visitors if your page took more than 4 seconds to load on a… Read more »

A new site|Tek Round up, and Photos

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PHP Developer beat me to the scoop already , but I’ve launched http://www.php-powered.com. The site is a simple listing service, but can be much more if the community desires. The main purpose is to list and show case all the sites in the world that are using PHP. So, next time someone asks you, who… Read more »

My PHP Tek Schedule

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So,
I’m now in Chicago, two days prior to PHPTek. I’ve never been to Chicago, so I wanted to take the conference as an excuse for a mini vacation. I’m staying at the Embassy Suites Rosemont, which is within a mile or so of the conference Hyatt. If you’re already here, or want to meet up with me during the conference.. here is my intended schedule..

The iPhone.. and exclusivity

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This is a great article explaining, why I haven’t bought camping equipment to wait outside a cingular/apple store the night before the iPhone launches. I love the idea of the iPhone, and I am fully aware and expecting version 1.0 to be buggy, have a really crappy battery life, and eat puppies. Yet, I still… Read more »

Hacking your home office.

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I actually did this sometime in December 2006, but I finally got around to taking pictures.. here I use the word hacking in it’s most original sense.. or the meaning I always believed in. Which is: “Improvising your surroundings and making things work for you”. So, based on that.. I had the following goal. Have… Read more »