I am in charge of about 100+ documents (word document, not source code) that needs revision by different people in my department. Currently all the documents are in a shared folder where they will retrieve, revise and save back into the folder. What I am doing now is looking up the "date modified" in the shared folder, opened up recent...
I'm trying to get some stats on how many of the visitors to our website have Silverlight enabled browsers. We currently use Google Analytics for the rest of our stats so ideally we'd like to just add 'Silverlight enabled' tracking in with the rest of our Google Analytics stats. But if it has to get written out to a DB etc then so be ...
I need to track traffic between a specific set of web sites. I would then store the number of clicks in a database table with the fields fromSite, toSite, day, noOfClicks. The complete urls are unimportant - only web site identity is needed. I've ruled out redirects since I don't want my server to be a single point of failure. I want th...
I work for a small-ish company, 70 people or so, 10 of us are developers. Every month we submit a timesheet tracking the hours spent on the projects we're involved in. Because we leave this until the last minute, we spent up to an hour going through our daily svn commits to reconstruct the hours spent. This is clearly a waste of time, I...
What tools allows me keep track of tags when doing web development? For example, I would like to be able to quickly find whether I missed closing a div tag. At the moment I am using notepad++ to write html. It highlights starting and ending tags, but it can take me time to review almost all tags to find where I went wrong. ...
Update: I didn't know I would be getting too many replies so fast. I can provide more details. It is definitely for use within the company. I was looking for some info on whether I should be more careful or anything to watch out for... My boss is asking me to put some tracking info on what users do with their application. It is not abou...
Our company runs a web site (oursite.com) with affiliate partners who send us traffic. In some cases, we set up our affiliates with their own subdomain (affiliate.oursite.com), and they display selected content from our site on their site (affiliate.com) using an iframe. Example of a page on their site: <html> <head></head> <body> <ifr...
our partners sites leverages our iframes in their own websites. I was wondering if there is a way to track the analytics on the iframes. The problem is, if we also utilize these iframes on our own website, how do i avoid duplicate tracking where a visit is counted on our domain's analytics and also counted again in iframes? is there a ...
I am building a application that uses Workflow Foundation (WF). For various reasons I have to use a custom tracking profile that I generate programmatically by using the following method: Instantiate the workflow. Retrieve the corresponding tracking profile. Test whether the tracking profile is up to date (I use a version number for th...
Traditional logfile analytics tools (awstats, statcounter) or general web analytics (google analytics, yahoo web analytics) are not suitable for analyzing traffic on servlets. Is there a good alternative to log messages using a logging framework (log4j for example) and to write a custom analytics software for these? ...
I'm doing some text rendering in Cocoa using NSAttributedString, and setting the font and underline properties and all that jazz. However, I can't figure out how I can change the text's tracking. Any suggestions? ...
On occasion I've heard people discuss the benefits of keeping track of programming mistakes, if for no other reason than it increases awareness of common errors. I've started to keep a list of bugs that I find in my code, along with what could have led to them. The main question I have is this: What information related to my mistakes...
I have been tasked with developing a solution that tracks changes to a database. For updates I need to capture: date of update old value new value field effected person doing change record id table record is in For deletes: date of delete person doing delete The title/description/id of record deleted. The tables I am tracking cha...
Hi, I am given a responsibility in my project to develop a Equipment tracking tool with following requirements New Equipment can be added by admin to a particular user Once equipment is assigned to a person he will a request to accept the request so he will be responsible User can transfer his equipment to other users. At the same tim...
Does anyone know of an application (hosted or otherwise) that I could use to keep track of details for a number of web sites? I manage 50+ web sites that range from custom solutions to open source platforms (WordPress, Joomla). I started to write my own but wanted to see if there is anything out there already. Here are some of the fea...
I'm making modifications to a members-based site whose owner wants to be able to track time spent on site (login/logout) for all users in a DB backend. Login is easy; there's one point of entry (the login form) and as a result, logins can be thrown in the database as soon as they happen. Logouts, however, are a bit trickier, as unless ...
Technorarati's got their Cosmos api, which works fairly well but limits you to noncommercial use and no more than 500 queries a day. Yahoo's got a Site Explorer InLink Data API, but it defines the task very literally, returning links from sidebar widgets in blogs rather than just links from inside blog content. Is there any other alter...
Hi there, We currently have an inventory management system that was built in-house. It works great, and we are constantly innovating it. This past Fall, we began selling products directly on one of our websites via a Shopping Cart checkout. Our inventory management system runs off a server in the office, while the three websites we c...
I was thinking it be cool to have a simple matchmaker code in php. The idea is the app connect to the server or a specific webpage, the webpage takes it IP and the last X ips and prints it on page (his first) problem is what happens when 5 ppl hit the page the same second. How do i handle it? i cant use global/shared memory? so i would ...
I am planning to write a bug tracking tool for a company. I haven't committed to the project yet, but I would like to know your thoughts. I am pretty good at C++ and am learning C# now. I know some Javascript as well. How much time would it take for developing a basic bug tracking tool? (With myself and a junior developer working on it)...