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How to track conversions using Wordpress

Are you using Wordpress for your blog? Who isn't :-) But a fairly simple sounding task like tracking conversions for Adwords campaigns actually requires a bit of work.

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How to measure code quality

This comic perfectly captures that elusive but all-important question: what are the universal hallmarks of good quality code.

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Featured, News, Startups

Take homes from Best Tech Entrepreneurs 2009

From the recent BusinessWeek article, I found the 'lessons learned' snippets at the end of these finalists very insightful

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IPhone Sync Nirvana

It's taken quite a while and a combination of apps but I finally have a really good sync setup between the iPhone and my contacts and calendar.

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Using jQuery and Forms

Some great jquery form tips from Laszlo, I also used the jQuery form plugin in the recent comment2 module.

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In this video we see Hitler castigating his core dev team for failing to to be true to Agile methodologies and cutting corners on their testing.

This is pretty good :-)

via David Heinemeier Hansson at Startup School 08. David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Ruby on Rails framework and Partner at 37Signals gives insight into creating a profitable startup company.


Check out the whole Startup School ‘08 Series.

PHP

Updating your dev environment after a Snow Leopard upgrade

Posted on 01 July 2010

I’ve avoided upgrading to Snow Leopard for ages for a number of reasons: didn’t want to spend ages re-setting up all my ports, I’ve heard SL creates a havoc wanted to maintain java apps that stop working in SL, like Zend 5.5 (it may be old but still has the best debugger around) wasn’t crazy about tinkering with [...] Continue Reading

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Linux, Mac

How to fix Terminal.app hang on open new tab

Posted on 30 June 2010

For once google returned an effective answer to solve a bizarre problem.  Do you have the problem that Terminal.app takes ages before a prompt shows up when you open a new tab?  So did I – here’s the fix: sudo rm -f /private/var/log/asl/* via Shannon Hicks Continue Reading

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News

Bookmarks for June 2nd through June 8th

Posted on 09 June 2010

Recommended reading How I took my web-app to market in 3 days thanks to common services in the cloud | TK’s weblog – Why develop a feature when you can bolt on a 3rd party service that does just as good a job, if not better OAuth Support in NetBeans IDE 6.9 | NetBeans Zone – [...] Continue Reading

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Best practices, PHP

Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript

Posted on 02 June 2010

O’Reilly asked me to be a technical reviewer for this book by Robin Nixon, I forgot to mention that it was published several months ago. If you’re a newb I recommend giving it a read, you can pick up a copy on Amazon. Continue Reading

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News

Bookmarks for May 31st

Posted on 31 May 2010

Recommended reading While You Slept, They Hacked #tcdisrupt – Watch the video, some interesting hacking projects Google i/o 2010 – GWT + Spring – This is one of the more impressive videos from this year's Google I/O event, here you can see how VMware (of all people) organised an effort to combine the predominant backend Java framework, [...] Continue Reading

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News

Bookmarks for May 28th through May 29th

Posted on 29 May 2010

Recommended reading How many lines of code does it take to create the Android OS? – Gubatron.com – Quite a nice way to show, in one table, how complex a project actually is. Wonder what the Objective-C is for? Schema Sync › a MySQL Schema Versioning and Migration Utility – A nice commandline [...] Continue Reading

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