Category Archives: web

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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The Best Web Design, and Copywriting Reference. EVER.

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Vid Luther

I’ve been exchanging some emails with my good friend Bobby Freeman. We’ve been discussing some copy and design for a new project I’ve launched, and am looking to share with the rest of the world. He pointed me to the best … Continue reading →

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Being Lean by accident, in 5th grade.

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Vid Luther

When I was growing up in India, we had to take “computer programming” courses in 5th grade.  At that time they taught us a language called Logo . Making a turtle draw concentric circles was easy, so my friends and … Continue reading →

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HipHop for PHP is not for you 60% of the time, everytime.

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Vid Luther

My apologies to Ron Burgundy for the title of the post, but I’m just a fan of the wisest man to ever live. As Marco and Illia and countless others have said, unless you don’t work with PHP or were … 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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URLs or URis, What’s the difference?

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Vid Luther

A lot of people confuse the terms URLs and URIs. This morning, the PHP Advent post by David Sklar exemplified that. Paul Reinheimer already has a rebuttal for this, and I’m expecting many more. I agree with Paul, David seems … 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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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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Building PHP 5.3 packages on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) for Apache 2

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Vid Luther

Goal: Build a PHP 5.3 package, that I can install and upgrade on new ubuntu slices as needed, without having to compile on each box. This is an amalgamation of different blog posts that did certain things really well, but … Continue reading →

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