I just wrapped up testing the second revision W3Counter pWidget, the overlay that brings web stats right to your webpage, including W3Counter’s color-coded click overlay. It puts no extra burden on the webpage except a simple key listener until it’s activated by the user, loads data modularly on demand, and is completely cross-browser compatible (dragging [...]
Hi Sara, Brian and Zach. This “visitor labeling” feature I’ve been working on is kinda spooky, isn’t it?
I’m still working on the widgets for W3Counter. I’ve have too many other things that need attention recently to bring anything to finished form, but at least I have 6 of the 8 planned widgets working and in testing. You’ve already seen pWidget, the page stats overlay. Here are a couple more:
What better endorsement can PHP as a language and symfony as an enterprise framework for that language get than Yahoo! building the new delicious service with them. That’s the news from the official symfony blog, where they also note Yahoo! will be contributing their bug fixes and extensions back to the symfony community.
SitePoint just released their Ruby on Rails book as a free download. Grab a copy while it’s available.
Every few weeks one of my advertising customers asks if they can split the hits from their ad campaign among multiple URLs without buying multiple campaigns. I had the free time over the holiday yesterday, so I made that happen. URLSplit does nothing more — you provide up to 7 URLs and get one like [...]
Recently I’ve been working on 3 or 4 projects at the same time on my desktop. While my primary IDE has changed to Visual Studio (even for PHP with VS.PHP), the rest of my development environment is mostly the same as it’s been since December. My projects are growing in code size, and the amount [...]
I’m pretty sure Amazon has hired some psychics and hooked them up to the internet. Today I followed a link to Beautiful Code, the website of a newly published book about how great modern programmers think. I decided it looked interesting, and clicked the link to O’Reilly’s store, where the book is $44.95. Wondering if [...]
Dot-com 2.0 (a bubble I think will eventually burst) has brought with it a slew of websites focusing on organizing, categorizing, and rating information. There’s del.icio.us for categorizing bookmarks, digg for rating news, stumbleupon for rating websites, tadalist for organizing todo lists, and an endless list more. What was keeping me from using these sites [...]
