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I've been using Google Analytics for myself for quite a while. I generally put it into all the sites I build for clients.

Since it's driven by JavaScript calls, I figured that there had to be hacks so that you could report on more than just which pages were being visited. Theoretically, you could see if people were getting confused by a particular button, a form entry, anything. I did a search for "Google Analytics Hacks". I found what I was looking for, except it wasn't called a hack. The information I wanted is in the Google Analytics support section. That was easy.... go on »

Tags: analytics, google, Blog | 7 comments

Once upon a time, I bought a copy of Winzip. This is before the days that zipping was built into the Windows OS. Occasionally, I get promotional email from them and I'm too lazy to unsubscribe. Well, I'm glad I haven't, because I got an email from them about a new service.

The company is called Carbonite, and they perform online backups of your system. They offer $49 a year for unlimited backup space.... go on »

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Some angels visited me in a dream and told me to get off my Microsoft high horse. They told me to go to http://www.rubyonrails.com. I think I may have seen the light. I was getting really tired of the .NET framework being either ridiculously high-level with widgets that made your page look and act like a dorky .NET site or ridiculously low-level where you had to write a bunch of code for pretty standard database/middle-tier transactions.... go on »

Tags: open source, ruby on rails, unix, Blog | 36 comments

If you browse the web, I'm sure you've heard about del.icio.us. It's a site for maintaining links on the web. Like most of the sites out there that claim to be the hottest new technology, I shrugged my shoulders, said "meh", and forgot about it. Clever URL, but I don't need it.... go on »

Tags: taxonomy, Blog | 7 comments