http://phpkitchen.com PHP and Web Development News and Tips Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:09:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://phpkitchen.com/2009/06/how-open-source-projects-survive-poisonous-people/ http://phpkitchen.com/2009/06/james-gosling-on-10-years-of-netbeans/ http://phpkitchen.com/2009/06/the-clean-code-talks-inheritance-polymorphism-testing/ 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.  Here is the system I found works best, you can get it up and running in only a few minutes. The goal is to ... http://phpkitchen.com/2009/06/how-to-track-conversions-using-wordpress/ 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. http://phpkitchen.com/2009/05/test-like-a-nazi/ Some interesting slides from Mack Collier Five Ways To Increase Engagement And Build Community View more presentations from Mack Collier. http://phpkitchen.com/2009/05/5-ways-to-increase-engagement-and-build-community/ Or maybe just Google Apps - either way they are so frequent these days I'm regretting having moved over.  C'mon guys, I never expected this level of outages from the great Google! [caption id="attachment_1007" align="alignnone" width="490" caption="Gmail outages"][/caption] "Detailed technical info" ... wtf? http://phpkitchen.com/2009/05/gmail-probs/ This comic perfectly captures that elusive but all-important question: what are the universal hallmarks of good quality code. http://phpkitchen.com/2009/04/how-to-measure-code-quality/ From the recent BusinessWeek article, I found the 'lessons learned' snippets at the end of each finalist very insightful: BumpTop: "The key thing is, stay as lean as possible," says Chief Executive Agarawala. "We don't have fancy espresso machines or offer massage in the office. But we do have a team ... http://phpkitchen.com/2009/04/take-homes-from-best-tech-entrepreneurs-2009/ We're hitting a pretty good average in the last few days, every single rating we have for Doris and MyHighStreet is 5 stars - nice feedback. [caption id="attachment_992" align="alignnone" width="494" caption="5 stars in the AppStore"][/caption] http://phpkitchen.com/2009/04/5-stars-in-the-appstore/