After using Slack for about a week or so, I was suddenly greeted by a corporate IT policy that blocked the domain… Bored of not having it I found a way this morning to selectively send my slack.com traffic through an Read More
Dark Social: What it isn't.
I’d heard the term “Dark Social” on a client call about two months ago, I googled it and balked at the definition. “Dark social describes any web traffic that’s not attributed to a known source” Allegedly coined by this article http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/dark-social-we-have-the-whole-history-of-the-web-wrong/263523/, which Read More
Check/Read Messages Exchange/Office365 Inbox with Powershell
We have a process by which notifications of new users in another system, that need to get created in ours are sent via Email to a standalone inbox. The new user emails have to be read and entered into the Read More
Parsing Querystring Values in Fiddler Custom Rules
I’ve been hot-rodding Fiddler for some time now to make my life a lot easier when debugging my site tagging and analytics tracking requests. You can customize just about anything within the sessions window from the color, background, custom Read More
Connect Pentaho/Mondrian Schema Workbench to Amazon Redshift
The more you play with big data technologies, the more you end up circling back to the basic question “How does my end user get access/value?”. Currently we’re using Amazon Redshift as a down and dirty query window on top Read More
Setup Mondrian on Mac OSX
The Mondrian documentation is terrible, and Java isn’t something you get to easily “dabble” in. My goal was to setup Mondrian on my Mac OSX machine, starting with Mondrian 3.5. While trying to set up the initial FoodMart sample dataset Read More
Mysql function to get querystring parameter of url
Not suprisingly, most google results only returned things for doing this within some kind of PHP application. Probably because nobody belives in MySQL as a data warehouse, or a place to parse strings… In the do with what you have Read More
Start synergy script Mac OSX Client to Windows Host
I’ve long been a synergy fan, and found that especially at work that multiple monitors work best when spread across extra computers. It’s like physical distributed computing. Now, part of learning how to work on a MacBook is being lazy and Read More
Set additional label based on event for Quantcast
Quantcast is a great resource and data source for site owners and clients. One of the first to provide demographics data in the web analytics space. Thier feature for “labels” or “Audience Segments” as its also known is an even Read More
PhantomJS and asynchronous resources after load
I’ve been dabbling with PhantomJS for about the past 3 months and just “picked up my pen” again this week. I’m trying to write some automated testing around tag resources loading onto the page. page.open(url,function(status){ if(status==’success’){ var check = page.evaluate(function(){ return Read More