tracking

How to track online users in Rails?

This was always a problem for me, as rails doesn't have some mechanisms for session tracking like java frameworks do, what methods do you use to track who is currently logged on your site? I use a simple method by setting up last_visited field with current time every time user clicks somewhere on the site, and then checking for users whi...

Tracking number patterns.

Is there any place to get patterns for shipping tracking numbers for all shipping companies like UPS,FedEX, DHL, AirBorne, USPS ... ...

How does Google track search result clicks? Is this the best way?

As the question states, I'm trying to figure out how google tracks clicks on search results. When you view the source, you find the following: <a href="http://www.yahoo.com/" class=l onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNG7Ba-stir4109vlLygPQX7QGf8bg','&amp;sig2=Vx5PLxf04C-yJYZTZfvk8w')"><em>Yahoo</em>!</a> The function ...

Webcam-based eye tracking & heatmaps

Anyone know of not-perfect-but-usable, affordable eye tracking software that works with run-of-the-mill webcams, preferably iSight? ...

Methods to detect which social networks users visit?

Are there recommended ways to determine which social networks my users are part of? I have the know-how to build a system that does this but I wanted to get other people's opinions and recommendations on how they might do it as well. ...

Using google analytics to track multiple companies in a single website

I've been tasked with implementing Google Analytics inside our (ASP.NET) application. Here is the scenario: A single web-site on one domain Multiple companies all use this single website Statistics need to be collected on a per company basis as well as the whole Report access needs to be allocated on a per company basis or for all (Wou...

SQL Server Logging/User Tracking Capabilities

We have recently converted an Access Application to store the date on SQL server. The forms still reside in the MS Access, but are linked through file DSN's to SQL server. A question came up of the capabilities to track user activity within SQL server. I have speculated that if we set up individual users in SQL server and use these ind...

redirect user, then log his visit using php and mysql

I have a PHP redirect page to track clicks on links. Basically it does: - get url from $_GET - connect to database - create row for url, or update with 1 hit if it exists - redirect browser to url using Location: header I was wondering if it's possible to send the redirect to the client first, so it can get on with it's job, and t...

Excel VBA macro to track changes in separate sheet

I am trying to write a VBA macro to track changes to a workbook in a separate sheet. If you do this manually, the sequence of commands is Tools > Track Changes > Highlight Changes, taking the option Separate Worksheet. You have to do two iterations of the command, one to activate tracking inline, a second to move the tracking to a separ...

Trigger based history

What I am trying to do is find out which fields were updated and record the change to a different table. DECLARE @BillNo int, @column_name varchar(500) SELECT @BillNo = BillNo FROM INSERTED DECLARE HistoryMonitorLoop CURSOR FOR SELECT column_name FROM information_schema.columns WHERE ...

How do I dynamically load Google Analytics JavaScript?

Without using any other JS frameworks (dojo, jquery, etc), how would I dynamically load Google Analytic's javascript to be used on a web page for web-tracking? The typical appropriate to dynamically loading JS is to do the following: var gaJs = document.createElement("script"); gaJs.type = "text/javascript"; gaJs.src = "http://www.goog...

ASP.NET Tracking Code & Unique Visitors

Hi Guys, I am trying to find a way to track and produce reports for my site (out of interest). Does anyone know of any articles/projects etc that you can Track pages / unique visitors etc Tracking 1) relative to timestamp etc in asp.net mvc or just asp.net ? P.S - I know google analytics etc is available but looking to create some ...

Distributed ProjectManagement/Bug Tracking...

Now that we have DSCMs, are there any Project Management / Bug Tracking tools that are distributed? ...

Monitor clicks/goals Google Analytics with iframes?

We've got a site that shows some content in iframes loaded from another domains. What I'd like to do is setup some Goals to track if this stuff is clicked, is this possible to track these clicks? I know that this content us outside our domain but is it still in the dom? ...

Financial tracking for software projects

The team I'm part of manage a number of software projects - and most of the stuff we do is end to end, from requirements tracking, to project management to purchasing and setup - a big pain is tracking of financials as we have a whole process to go through for our financials. At the moment we use a spreadsheet and store all the invoices...

What's a good task tracking system built on PHP?

I'd like to set up a task tracking system on a hosted PHP server to track small-scale development projects. Something simple but reliable would be great. A Google search pulls up a few names, but I wanted to get some opinions from people who have used a PHP-based system for this. ...

Track changes: svn + latex

In MS Word, there's a nice feature called "track changes" that allows the program to track edits. This is useful when collaborating with others because you can enable various visualization modes where it's easy to see what others have changed. I'm in the process of editing a large amount of documentation written in LaTeX and stored in ...

How does google analytics collect its data?

Yes, I know you have to embed the google analytics javascript into your page. But how is the collected information submitted to the google analytics server? For example an AJAX request will not be possible because of the browsers security settings (cross domain scripting). Maybe someone had already a look at the confusing google javas...

What is the best way to add google analytics tracking for specific elements on the page?

All important elements on my page has ID attribute set. I want to track if visitors are really using (clicking) those elements and I'm not sure which one of those 3 ways is the best: I - add onclick="track..." at the page generate time II - add onClick handler after ondomready for each element III - add only one onClick handler for whol...

Is there a master index for Visual Studio projects?

I have MANY small "Test Projects" where I put together just enough code to prove or disprove some idea I'm working on. Some time (sometimes several months) later, I need to use some of this code. It can take hours searching through poorly named folders to find the gem of code I'm looking for. It's not enough to be worth a Blog or wiki...