How can I implement a/b split testing the easiest way in Drupal 7? - testing

Drupal has a few split testing modules but I can't find one that compatible with recently released (as of this writing) Drupal 7. I could try to use Google Website Optimizer but, I'm new to Drupal, and not sure how I could edit the Head HTML to insert the unique JavaScripts on each page (I assume they all share the same Head declarations).
Can someone help?

There's already a dedicated Drupal module for inserting the GWO code into pages where it's appropriate. If you need to do something more exotic, use it as a starting point.

FYI for others who stumble on this, the Google Website Optimizer module linked by Eaton is now unsupported and obsolete.
With a quick search I found the Multivariate module at https://www.drupal.org/project/multivariate that can be used to setup multivariate or A/B tests.

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Bigcommerce Stencil - What is Required and Help Setting Up

I just got access to the new Stencil beta and I have no idea what to do. I have reviewed all of the documentation on the BC developer website, but I don't know how to proceed. I am also not sure if I will even be able to create designs in Stencil since I don't know Handlbars or json - are those programming skills required or can we still rely on CSS and HTML for most design customization? BC told me there is no support for getting set up and to ask in this forum instead.
Normally I would look under the hood of an existing theme to see how it's built and try "learning on the job" but since I can't even get access to the files, I am at a loss. I created an account on GitHub but I have never used it so I don't know where to look for the files (I did a search but there are thousands of files there and I again couldn't figure out where to start). Can anyone point me in the right direction so I can determine if using Stencil is even feasible for my projects?
Handlebars compiles serverside as HTML. You do still have stylesheets, but we are using some SASS custom functions (documented in Stencil docs).
I'd recommend taking a look here: http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/getting-started-with-handlebars-js

Extension Error for Trizetto Facets extension

Hi folks,
I don't know if anyone here can help, but we are at wits' end. We use the Facets product from Trizetto, and I inherited an extension that works fine in production. All I changed was one URL in one method and its overload, and now none of us can run it in either Windows 7 or XP SP3. Debugging it or running the installed extension gives the error shown. The extensions guide (like much of what Trizetto has put out) is pretty useless, and they have no support links or knowledge base online. Has anyone encountered this sort of thing, and can you lead me to any possible solutions?
Trizetto is fairly straight forward for extensions. In this case your custom code is returning an error when Facets attempts to invoke it. Can you run your code outside of Facets and see what happens? A test rig helps here.

Automatic website creation using rails

I am looking for a template generator for rails, much like the scaffolding, but complete with preset pages and css, everything already built-in generically.
I am unsure where or how to search for this.
The reason I want something like that and not create one myself, is that I need to create a website really quickly with a certain preset theme
I had the same problem that you had, and could not find a solution. Therefore I built a gem for it.
https://github.com/bighostkim/simple-layout
It only applies to your development mode and it does not use asset to make it simple.
Hope it helps.
Rails Yard may be the solution you are looking for. It is a CMS written in Rails.
Rails CMS WIKI FORUM 2nd option
Rails Admin is great for data management (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete).

Automated content creation for the web?

I see a lot of new websites lately which create automated content, most notable SiteGuruji and 7zoom:
http://www.siteguruji.com/site/youtube.com
Is there an application framework or text analysis framework available to create such sites? SiteGuruji is doing full SEO analysis of the sites as well. Is there an SEO analysis library available? How do I do such an analysis?
Sorry for the noobish question, but i am new to programming and thus I am not sure which direction to start in.
By SEO did you mean this section of the page?
http://www.siteguruji.com/site/youtube.com#seo_status ?
I don't think any frameworks are available for SEO... however you can check out NLTK for text analysis and natural language processing:
http://www.nltk.org/book
You basically need to write your own classes to scrape content from the site and third party sites and analyse it. I have not found something ready for this. Bits fom here and there, you can use.
Personally, I have created everything from scratch using zend framework as basis.

How can I go about automating the testing of the migration of local web apps from IE6 to IE8?

I have been researching this a wee bit and it seems to boil down to:
'Eyeball Mark 1'
The best tip seems to be the use of SuperPreview from Microsoft's Expression team.
If anyone has automated a way to go about this I would love to hear about it.
Also, I believe that SuperPreview requires a work around for a password protected app to work properly. There is a work around at MSDN Blog, but if anyone has come up with another way, could you share it with me please?
Thanks in advance!
Some products, like Telerik WebUI Test Studio, lets you build your test and play a movie with the results in different browsers (not sure about IE6 and IE8 support)
Others lets you compare bitmaps of screenshots of tests in one browser and the other. The problem is that the minimum 1-bit shift will result in an test error.