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This week has been an incredible comedy of errors. First, I completely mess my demo and upload it as a “blooper” to be used later …

Then my Internet connection goes down, so I have to use it anyway!

But I’m not … and don’t claim to be … a pro marketer. Just a geek who has stumbled on some incredibly awesome technology that saves time, saves money and makes building out sites fun again. So what the hey, I’ll use the video anyway.

And go ahead and release the technology …

Joomla! Updater Pro Released Tomorrow

… if you want to know more, you can post questions here or join in the community forum.

The Aweber Plugin for Joomla! was just released to the Extensions directory this afternoon, and already people are installing it on their sites.

You can visit the Joomla! Extension page directly:

http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,5634/Itemid,35/

This is a “plugin” that sends a “subscribe” email to Aweber everytime someone creates an account on your site, whether through the standard signup process, Community Builder or via a Virtue Mart purchase or AEC subscription.

It can be purchased directly through the site or through the updater.

One question I frequently get is: I’m already using “1ShoppingCart:” (insert name of 1ShoppingCart private label), why do I need Aweber too? They already provide

The answer is actually pretty simple. Aweber does one thing, and they do that one thing well: they deliver email. 1SC and other systems do mail as an “extra feature”, and don’t always get it right.

The bottom line is that if you are serious about getting traditional email delivered, Aweber (and its brands such as JVListPro) is the way to go - even if you are using other solutions that have “build in” email systems as well.

And now, with the Aweber Plugin for Joomla! you get to harness that power with your Joomla! site. Of course the plugin works perfectly well with JVListPro, too.

Matt’s one of the founders of DeanAlert, where I’ve been helping to build out an extremely scalable messenging service based on cloud technology. Matt talks about the past, the future and a little about the memorial day fiasco.

It’s a short 8 minute video …

http://www.kentuckystartups.com/2008/07/14/profile-pearlabs-and-dean-alert/

As I mentioned in my last post, “tags” in subversion is a hack. A copy of a directory sitting in /tags that is still writable is simply NOT what I need when I need to “tag” (remember) a revision (a release, merge point, or a vendor drop for example).

Playing with git, the two things I liked the most about the day-to-day development features were proper branching and merging, as well as tagging. Subversion, in the latest release, is getting near to having proper merge support.

But it still lacks “tags”, “labels” or whatever you want to call them. The most descriptive name would be simply “named revision”. Here’s a simple (perhaps naive) implementation idea.

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I hadn’t heard the term before … SPIT is to telephone what SPAM is to Internet Mail. Having spent the last few months building out the voice technology for Boom Engine, it’s an issue to be aware of.

http://www.freeswitch.org/node/125 | http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/12/136232

Coming from an original assembly language (computer machine language) background - where optimization is the norm, I foundChris Vincent’s new site at PHPBench about PHP micro-benchmarking intriguing- it’s well worth the read. You can find a short description here.

While I agree wholeheartedly in this explanatory comment at the end of the page:

All in all micro-benchmarking was not considered to me as something that Is utterly important for how a program works. I agree with those people who have said that the major items at the hardware and algorithms.

I also agree with Chris’s approach: if you can determine the faster way to do things, and train yourself to use the “better” constructs consistently [never at the expense of maintainability, however] you’ll get a step up in your code … not only in performance (which can be significant in large programs), but also in terms of consistency in your code.

I do have some questions about this benchmark, for example, exactly what version of PHP is being used, and what is the platform? Would a 64 bit processor have different charcteristics than a 32bit? Maybe. Maybe not.