Category Archives: blog

Multivariate Testing, PHP Frameworks, Plea for help.

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Vid Luther

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 … Continue reading →

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Managing WordPress and other PHP projects with Ruby

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Vid Luther

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 … Continue reading →

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You have no clue. Or, “Release Early, Release Often” in laymen’s terms.

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Vid Luther

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on November 28, 2009 by Vid Luther

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, … Continue reading →

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Netbeans crashing under Snow Leopard – possible fix

Posted on November 27, 2009 by Vid Luther

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 … Continue reading →

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San Antonio gets 4G Coverage, thanks to Sprint and Clear

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Vid Luther

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 … Continue reading →

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Internets on a plane!

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Vid Luther

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 . … Continue reading →

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Changing MySQL storage engine for one table in your Propel/Symfony project

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Vid Luther

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 … Continue reading →

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iStockPhoto Logos validates Brandstack marketplace?

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Vid Luther

A new concept for iStockPhoto called iStockPhoto Logos has been announced as a direct competitor to Brandstack. Will iStockPhoto Logos fail again? Techcrunch just announced iStockPhoto Logos? . It seems this is a great idea that was pioneered by Brandstack. … Continue reading →

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Git Pre-commit hooks for Symfony projects.

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Vid Luther

Graham Christensen and I have been working together on a project for a little while, it’s using the Symfony Framework . Graham explains the problem really well with a good solution to it. I’d like to expand on the subject … Continue reading →

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