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Firepow 2.0: Will the Enhanced Support Delight or Despair?
Jun 12th, 2009 by admin

This is a most relevant question to be asking with respect to Firepow 2.0 now that it has been launched.

We all know how important it is in any business enterprise to keep our customers satisfied. How many times have we heard the old saw: If it wasn’t for customers there would be no business? Yet, as a management consultant, I’m continually coming across people who just don’t seem to ‘get’ that if it weren’t for the customer, they wouldn’t have a job.

And now, in these difficult economic times the contemporary customer is even more demanding of quality service; so much so that business leaders should be thinking of delighting customers—not merely satisfying them.

In the cyber world, where body language is not an option, if we are to show that we have a genuine desire to provide customer-delighting service, we have only the written word to do so.

It has to be said that the Firepow Ver. 1 management didn’t ‘top the pops’ in this arena. In my experience since being a member of Firepow, I’ve seen many forum posts unanswered or answered inadequately. Similarly with the Support desk, I’ve experienced delays of days in receiving answers to questions, which to me, were absolutely critical to my work.

But to be fair, there has been a continual improvement in this area and my instinct is that the administration team has really picked up on this aspect of management. So I’m reasonably confident that this negative aspect of the old Firepow will soon be a thing of the past in the new program.

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TestFest is upon us once again.
Jun 9th, 2009 by admin

TestFest is upon us once again. For those who don’t know, this is the time of year where User Groups and individuals donate a little of their time and effort to increasing the test coverage of PHP.

Hundreds of thousands of lines of code are working in concert to assemble one of the simplest to learn and fastest running scripting languages in the business. All this is achieved with the expectation that very few bugs will make it into releases and the ones that do will be stomped out quickly, efficiently and will never be heard from again. This is a lofty goal and is only possible through a system of tests designed to continuously evaluate the well-being of PHP.

This year the QA Team has been very busy implementing new features and improvements to make the TestFest experience easier and more enjoyable than ever before. Some these improvements include a Subversion repository for test storage and tracking, a Virtual Machine for simple test environment setup, and improved documentation of testing procedures.

2009 is looking to be the most successful TestFest event ever. Over 20 User Groups spanning Belgium, Brazil, Catalonia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, USA and the UK have already registered. This is an incredible response and we still have 2 months left to go.

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