A Day in Paradise

Gearing up for the Amazon.com release of the Ancestor Novel, Scott has convinced Jian and Rhumkorrf to start blogging!

This is a part of a larger guerrilla marketing campaign which focuses on making Ancestor an Amazon.com best seller on April 1st. So if you have a minute, throw a couple links on your blog, and make sure you’re in the virtual line to grab Ancestor as soon as it hits the virtual shelves!

A flurry of PHP updates this week… on the heels of PHP5.2 we have ezPublish 3.9 and Zend Framework 0.60 and ezcomponents. While I have updated the PHP version on the server, I’m holding out on ezPublish and ZF till the holiday weekends.

I released the 5th article on my Zend Framework Hidden Gems series, this week focusing on Zend_Db. The upcoming article will be on Zend_Feed and because of the good response to the initial Zend_Db article, I’ve pushed the article on Zend_Db_Select into the queue after Zend_Feed. Expect to see both those articles in the usual place in the next 2 weeks.

In work related news, I’ve just launched my second ezPublish site (working on my third as soon as I get finished with this entry) I’m putting all our site release information on our HedgeCo Hedge Fund Websites corporate blog, so as soon as I get around to writing a release announcement you can see it on the Hedge Fund website launch section.

Oh, and I’m talking at PHP|Tek (more information here), looking forward to that. Now that we’re talking about traveling, I’ll be working out of West Palm Beach from the 7th of Jan to the 2nd of Feb so if anyone in the area wants to meet up, it would be awesome.

We’ve been busting our balls on the infrastructure of our new Hedge Fund Website creation project over the last couple weeks and since we did the official launch yesterday I figured it deserved a little link love

The heart of the hedge product a niche tool for hedge fund managers to manage their investor portfolios and relations. The underlying system is currently a custom PHP/MySQL system, however we are working with WebStyle Systems to create platform using eZpublish to which we can move some of our accounts and base future products on. We will also be launching another niche product based on this platform. This is still pre-alpha development.

One interesting tool that we are using for our support is SupportSuite by Kayako. This is a great support/ticket platform, what I have been most impressed with has been the moderate use of AJAX in both the backend and frontend support interfaces. Internally we use Mantis to manage our projects.

The project is still in it’s early stages. We are working on the “flagship” hedge fund websites website and moving that away from it’s launch state. Of course we have a blog where team members will be blogging (just me so far).

Thanks for the space, I now return you to your regular programming… Oh yes, we’re looking for another designer (isn’t everyone), check out the blog if you’re interested.

As seen on The Eric Rice Show blog.