Leadership musings and hackery from the Perl generation...
I use Google Analytics a lot day to day to help my clients better understand their visitors. As Google Analytics is a remotely hosted statistics solution that uses JavaScript it doesn’t track files downloaded like a regular log file analyser would. So today we’re going to talk about how we can track those file downloads so that you can gain better metrics on documents hosted by your site.
So there i was looking for a simple solution to offer a preview function on a CMS for a client at work, when it hit me. Why try and replicate the content of the page in anyway (i could use a blank page and fill it in, i could carry values as a session and redirect to the front end view page. The reality is: I could do many different things. The real question comes down to “How would a Ninja do it”
Today i had to write a quick method to extract the YouTube video id from a YouTube video URL. So on with the show, lets get onto the code.
I recently took Rob Conery of SubSonic fame’s advice and decided it was time to be a good Jedi and build my own blog engine – on a side note: If you haven’t jumped in and at the very least tried Subsonic well… “friendship over”, not much else i can say. Obviously if you want to write a blog engine, there is no better way than to create your own blog using it – So here goes!