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QCubed: An Excellent PHP Framework 17 Feb 2009 | 06:35 am
I haven't been writing about it on this blog, but I've been intimately involved in the development of one of the best PHP5 frameworks out there. The framework is called QCubed; it's a model-view-contr...
Another award and an interview! 3 Oct 2008 | 07:30 am
Cocktail Builder won another award! SEOMoz gave the site a Gold Medal in the Web 2.0 Fun Stuff category again this year! And hey, they even asked me for an interview... Here's it is.
Looking for a designer 18 Aug 2008 | 03:10 pm
Cocktail Builder needs a talented graphic designer to take the site to the next level. Do you like the site and think you can make it even better? Are you a Photoshop guru with a great understanding o...
The Query to Power It All 28 Nov 2007 | 03:41 pm
This article is only meant for major, major SQL geeks. You'll be bored out of your mind if you're not one; don't tell me I didn't warn you. As you might have guessed, there's one, only one query powe...
The first place! 19 May 2007 | 02:42 am
So, here I am, looking at the Google Analytics for CocktailBuilder last week, and the graph looks approximately like this: Whaaaaat? was exactly my reaction. Here I am, having about 30 visitors on a ...
Cross-Domain Ajax 20 Apr 2007 | 03:05 pm
<rants> Oh, friends, friends. Whoever thought of setting up the so-called Same Origin Policy was, ahem, not very forward-looking. A bit of history: Microsoft. Internet Explorer 5.0 (released in 1999...
AjaxMetrics 8 Apr 2007 | 09:10 pm
You've seen my recent post about the importance of knowing what the users do on your site. My friend David gave me great feedback to actually productize the idea, considering there really aren't any g...
Homework: Analyzing Competition 6 Apr 2007 | 08:34 pm
It's good to know who else is trying to do the same thing. Why? Obvious answers - so that you don't reinvent the wheel; so that you know what they are doing; so that you can differentiate yourself pr...
Vision vNext: Organizing a Party 24 Mar 2007 | 10:16 pm
I'm thinking about the next version of the CocktailBuilder, and I'd like to share an idea that a friend of mine gave me. Basically, it's about one good end-to-end scenario for the website that I'm alm...
What are users doing on your site? 24 Mar 2007 | 09:44 pm
So, you have a great-looking AJAX website. You're Zillow, or Google Maps, or whatever. You have a billion visitors, but as a great entrepreneur, you understand that the only way to keep afloat is to g...
