Site Launch: Neilson® Dairy Oh!®
Wayne Helman on November 30, 2009
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Neilson® Dairy Oh®!
A51 is pleased to announce the launch of a new updated website for Saputo’s Neilson® Milk brand Dairy Oh!®. Dairy Oh!® contains DHA, an Omega-3 fatty acid, contributes to good health and normal growth and development. The focus of the campaign was to elaborate on the benefits of milk high in DHA. The overall campaign creative was developed by Clean Sheet Communications. A51 developed the “one page website” concept for the campaign, designed the creative and developed the website.
The website uses jQuery to scroll up and down a stack of books held by a young girl, displaying selected content in a callout window. Both English and French versions are available.
A big thanks goes out to Clean Sheet and their team for putting so much trust in us!
A51 & ActionScript 3 Development Task Contest #1
Phil Chertok on November 16, 2009
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On Friday I participated in the first ActionScript 3 Development Task Contest, which challenged users to divide the stage into a grid and to find all the neighbors of a given display object on that grid. The key was that the winner should implement their method in the quickest/most efficient way possible. Results would be measured using Grant Skinner’s fantastic Performance Testing Harness. continued…
Stress Testing CakePHP with Pylot
Matt Fisher on November 5, 2009
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Using Pylot to Load Test CakePHP
Since we like to use the CakePHP framework here at A51 we figured it would be great if we could find or develop a tool to load test our sites as we developed them to weed out any issues that would be caused in a high load production environment. After some research, we found a small open source application called Pylot (http://www.pylot.org) which is made for testing performance and scalability of web services. Pylot generates concurrent load (HTTP Requests), verifies server responses, and produces reports with metrics. Tests suites are executed and monitored from a GUI or shell/console. continued…
