Monthly Archives: June 2009

A/B Testing

A/B testing, or split testing, is a method of advertising testing by which a baseline control sample is compared to a variety of single-variable test samples in order to improve response rates. A classic direct mail tactic, this method has … Continue reading

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Color Psychology

clipped from psychology.about.com How Colors Impact Moods, Feelings, and Behaviors Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. – Pablo Picasso What Is Color? In 1666, English scientist Sir Isaac Newton discovered that when pure white light is passed … Continue reading

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What was on my mind on April 11th

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What is the most common favorite color?

Well, it’s blue, at least according to an internet pole on about.com Their Poll: My Poll Color Psychology 101: What Is Color? In 1666, English scientist Sir Isaac Newton discovered that when pure white light is passed through a prism, … Continue reading

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Hack Attack: Using Subversion with TortoiseSVN

clipped from lifehacker.com Last week I showed you how to set up a personal home Subversion server. For many of you, this was the first time you’ve gotten a close look at serious version control, so you may still be … Continue reading

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how a news story develops

clipped from stereotypist.livejournal.com

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Complete list of built-in PHP functions

Phar PharData PharException PharFileInfo abs acos acosh addcslashes addslashes aggregate aggregate_info aggregate_methods aggregate_methods_by_list aggregate_methods_by_regexp aggregate_properties aggregate_properties_by_list aggregate_properties_by_regexp aggregation_info apache_child_terminate apache_get_modules apache_get_version apache_getenv apache_lookup_uri apache_note apache_request_headers apache_reset_timeout apache_response_headers apache_setenv apc_add apc_cache_info apc_clear_cache apc_compile_file apc_define_constants apc_delete apc_fetch apc_load_constants apc_sma_info apc_store apd_breakpoint apd_callstack … Continue reading

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Mac doesn’t deny that IE7 has standards compliance issues!

This is pretty awesome. I like their philisophy. If it were only that easy for the rest of the internet to do :) ps: IE6 doesn’t even load! From: mac.com

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Firefox Quick Find

Related Post: Check out my entry on customizing firefox keyboard shortcuts clipped from foliovision.com Firefox Quickfind: Hard to Type an Apostrophe Firefox has a great search feature based on Command-F (Mac) or Control-F (Windows). You get a cute little text … Continue reading

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“What Exactly is a ‘Mashup’?”

clipped from netforbeginners.about.com You hear this “mashup” expression being used by techie friends of yours. They talk about “oh, that is such an awesome mashup”. But what exactly does “mashup” mean? “Mashup” comes from the term “mashed potatoes”, but is … Continue reading

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