Welcome to HedgeCo Website Creation

David W. Tice & Associate, LLC is a Registered Investment Advisor firm which specializes in Prudent Bear mutual funds as well as other privately offered hedge funds. The company website, prudentbear.com is well establish in its field, but with the introduction of five new hedge funds, the site needed to be extended in order to comply with the regulatory restrictions involved with Hedge Fund websites.

Before our work began, we had a components for multiple funds into one framework. However, due to the unique aspects of this scenario (discussed later) we had to implement a unique solution.

There were several unique aspects to this project:

• Five Hedge Funds to manage
• Two Offshore funds, three onshore.
• Two funds available for Qualified Clients (3c7 Investors) and three funds for Accredited Investors (3c1 investors)

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One of the support questions that the HedgeCo Website team gets is how they can resize their images for use on the web. Most commonly this is seen when trying to cut an an image to the correct dimensions for a useable headshot.

This entry will give you some simple steps how you can do this with freely available tools.
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To help handle the growing needs of the HedgeCo Website support team we have implemented a ticket system which we will be using from now on to coordinate our support efforts. After evaluating our needs we selected excellent theSupportSuite product from Kayako systems, using this excellent product will enable us to handle your needs faster and more efficiently than before and will expand with our quickly growing needs.

While this new system brings a lot of power to the HedgeCo Website support team, as a client the system is very easy to use, in fact you can use it directly from your email client.

The following steps take you through the process of creating a “ticket” and using our new support system
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EzSystems released the first release candiate for the 3.9 series of their award winning content management system. This release features a wealth of valuable features, many of which were requested and implemented by the eZpublish community.

Also included is a fantastic new default theme (shown on the right), and a nice standard website package which is available during the installation which makes setting up a simple site using eZpublish that much simpler.

The HedgeCo Website creation team is currently in the final stages of rolling out two websites using the eZpublish 3.8 series. These websites will be launched in this month, so be sure to check back here so you don’t miss the launch party!

We are evaluating this new release, and hope to integrate the new features into our products so that our clients can benefit from what looks like a great new release from the eZpublish team. Thanks to everyone who made this release possible!

This is a short annoucement to welcome Aaron Connelly to the HedgeCo Hedge Fund Websites team.

AaronC (founder of ACJavascripts.com and Cytech-Services.com) has been working with us for the past few months providing his expert services to help with the influx of work which we have had. However, due to the increased in business preceeding the official launch of HedgeCoWebsites.com we are taking him on full time. AaronC will be working in our deployment and support department, and will be working with our clients in the final phases of deploying their Hedge Fund websites.

We look forward to working with AaronC, and if we’re lucky we might even convince him to drop in here to blog every now and then!
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This was my first Zend Conference and I enjoyed it immensely. The topic was “Creating Advanced PHP Applications”, and the two talks that I presented were “Upgrading to PHP5 with Style” and “Planning a PHP5 Rewrite”.

This year ZendCon was held in the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, California. After driving down from LA with Jon Bauer, I called ahead to make sure that we meet up with some of the other guys for the obligatory pre-conference dinner.

As always, for regular speakers the conferences are more about meeting up with other developers than the conference sessions themselves. This being my first US-based PHP conference I was happy to finally meet up with some of my friends, many of whom I’m communicated with over the last few years but hadn’t had the opportunity to meet in person. One of the highlights of this conference was the extensive expo floor and the wealth of companies that were exhibiting.
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Welcome to our shiney new HedgeCo Websites (HCW) blog!

Over the last year of operating HedgeCo Websites we’ve found that the key to successful projects is a clear and informal communication. Whether you are an existing HCW client, a hedge fund manager interested in our platform, or a technologist/designer who is interested in our technology we are interested in communicating with you, and hearing any comments that you have.

In this spirit, we’ve set up this blog to create an easy way to let all our visitors stay up-to-date with what’s going on at the HCW HQ, and provide an informal forum for interaction between the users of our products and the HCW team.

Following are some of the topices that you’re likely to find discussed here:

• Annoucements of newly completed sites to the HCW family
• New feature annoucements
• Clarifications regarding Frequently Asked Questions
• Posts discussing some of the project management issues which we encounter
• Interviews with developers, project managers
• Conference / Event news
• HCW News
• Links to other sites of interest
• … and any other fun topics that we feel like blogging about.

If you are new to blogging please visit the pages that we have set up about blogging, so that you can familiarize yourselves with the medium.

Let the blogging begin.