New Logo Design by Brandstack™

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I’d like to announce some changes to The PHP Cult. New Domain: The name will be changing to Third Party Code, if you’ve known me for a while, that’s the name under which I’ve been conducting business, yet almost everything about me and quite a bit of my work shows up on phpcult.com. Technical Competence:… Read more »

Another failure in Web page styling and design.

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This one comes from Microsoft, and their Silverlight install page. Since I already have silverlight installed, I can’t show what the actual download link looked like, but it wasn’t obvious at first. Why do people still not pay attention to this stuff? I’m not commenting on choice of colors, but rather that it’s not obvious… Read more »

Redefining Spam, in the age of Twitter

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For the past few months, I’ve been helping my friend develop and market Philtro . We’ve gone through various iterations of the elevator pitch for it, and the one that seems to be kinda working, is: “It’s like a spam filter for your Twitter account.” At SXSW, I got the opportunity to talk to Guy… Read more »

Time Warner Cable of San Antonio, Monopolies and why they suck. – UPDATED

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Why Monopolies Suck, arrogance of Time Warner Cable. Update (May 12th 2009) I’m leaving the original post up, but in case anyone else stumbles upon this, I’d like to share that the issue has been resolved to my liking with Time Warner. As always it was one bad apple giving the bad impression and discomfort…. Read more »

Cost of clouds, Mosso/Slicehost vs AWS

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Marco Tabini has a great post discussing the cost of the cloud, and the current state of affairs. He calls for a simpler cloud platform, not just in terms of cost, but ease of use and products and services that adapt to changes in the market. Though the $100/month Mosso offering is mentioned (this site… Read more »

Using Subversion with Mosso

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Thanks to Expandrive . You can now use Subversion (SVN) on websites hosted at Mosso . The idea of mounting a directory you’d normally ftp/sftp to, and then using SVN on it, at first seemed oddly implausible to me. But, I tried it recently, and got exactly the results I wanted. I even had the… Read more »