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Nutshell: After having a terrible experience with them during my campaign (read more) & spending weeks to get it fixed, they decided to come back and harass me one last time – for old time’s sake. Since I’m out of the race, I decided to close my campaign-related paypal account. Upon emailing them, they send me directions on how to close the account – which I perform successfully. A few weeks later, I learn that my business-related paypal account is disabled and none of my linked credit cards even work when trying to pay someone else that uses PayPal. Last, I tried to follow the steps listed in my account but they were ‘blank’ and even confused the customer care rep – who was also nice enough to let me know that she really couldn’t help me… only an email to compliance@paypal.com.

The much anticipated PHP Doctrine ORM is nearing a stable release. After a long Google Summer of Code, Konsta Vesterinen, also known as zYne- in IRC, has tentatively scheduled the first release candidate for August 31st. This is very exciting for the PHP community as it fills a gap that has existed in PHP since its existence. Stay tuned for more information on this great news.

So, we’ve decided that its probably time to change our name :) After 3+ years in business, its become very clear that CentreSource is a case study in how NOT to name your company or create a logo. In the beginning, CS was envisioned (by me) to be a global outsourcing provider for a variety of services – kinda like LBMC. After 1.5 years, we decided to become a web design firm and the name became less of a fit. Moreover, we constantly have to explain the spelling since we pronouce it “Centersource” and when people read it they say “Centrasource”. The best kicker is that we designed the logo so that the first part of the word is separated from the second part – and we even capitalized the ’s’! This leads everyone to write it out as ‘Centre Source’. Whew, talk about trouble.

I got a shiny new iPhone, and it is amazing. But you’ve already read that somewhere else.
Being a web developer, I immediately started looking for some best practices on how to write apps for this new tool of mine.

Google “iPhone development” and you get nothing but blog entries about people who don’t actually have much real concrete documentation, and a couple of development IDEs that give you preview for the frame and such. But no actual development guidelines. Shame on whoever does SEO for apple…