Finally! Inept police departments will be able to solve murders and other heinous crimes using awesome computer graphics in 47 minutes or less...just like on TV!
Visits. A Web page with 10 images is 11 hits. First hit is the page itself and then the next 10 hits are the images loading. If you have a stats package that tracks page views then that's the number you're really interested in. Say you have 100 visitors and 1000 page views; that means your content is compelling enough for each visitor to view an average of 10 pages before they leave the site.
I second Google Analytics. I've been using it on about 40 Web sites and it's a great tool with zero configuration. Just drop in the Google code and go. The only concern is that Google now has aggregate traffic stats but I, for one, welcome our new Intarweb overlords.
I always thought that MySpace recorded just the right meta-search elements to keep me interested.
Too bad the search engine on their site is horribly slow and results in timeouts about 9 out of every 10 times I attempt to use it to stalk^H^H^H^H^H search for friends.
I wonder what those managers would say if they had to fly the shuttle.
"Hello, ISS, yes, we'd like to make reservations arriving July 4th. Departure date? Uhm...we're not sure...how quickly can Russia get a lifeboat up here?"
My father used to be a Dale Carnegie Course instructor and always talks about workers getting promoted to their level of incompetence. The basic theory in a huge unchecked corporate environment is that when a worker starts doing their job too well they get promoted as a reward for their hard work. When they learn their new job and start doing that job too well they get promoted again. Eventually they get promoted to just above their incompetence level and spend the rest of their lives floundering as a middle manager getting made fun of by their subordinates.
If you can consider all the data in the context of the other layers you have a more complete picture of your networks status.
You don't happen to work for Splunk, do you?;) Sorry...when I read that all I could think of are those Splunk ads that have been plastered all over/. for the past few months.
Insert obligatory Pepper Pad self-promotion here.;) Seriously though, the future of a lot of these devices is how hackable they are and how easy they are to add third-party apps. The Pepper Pad has a rather small hacker following right now and we're in the process of putting together a full cross-compiler SDK in addition to giving users tools to compile natively.
Even Strunk and White themselves fall foul of their own "rules" in most of their writing.
But that's the point. One of the first rules in any discipline is knowing when to break the rules. Writing, graphic design, photography, etc. Simply knowing what the rules are leads to better writing even if you're breaking them (like this sentence). If I had a nickel for every time I've fixed typos and other elementary mistakes on my employer's Web site that passed marketing's proofread I'd, well, have a lot of nickels.
Every style guide has people who love it and people who hate it; it's the people who use the guide as a loose reference instead of as a Bible that succeed.
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Finally! Inept police departments will be able to solve murders and other heinous crimes using awesome computer graphics in 47 minutes or less...just like on TV!
Enhance...enhance...enhance...
I'll be sure to make a mental note that my stats are now 0.000125% inaccurate.
Visits. A Web page with 10 images is 11 hits. First hit is the page itself and then the next 10 hits are the images loading. If you have a stats package that tracks page views then that's the number you're really interested in. Say you have 100 visitors and 1000 page views; that means your content is compelling enough for each visitor to view an average of 10 pages before they leave the site.
I second Google Analytics. I've been using it on about 40 Web sites and it's a great tool with zero configuration. Just drop in the Google code and go. The only concern is that Google now has aggregate traffic stats but I, for one, welcome our new Intarweb overlords.
Man...and I thought I had it rough having to rely on RFC 2549.
Simple. Übergeek. My employer put it on my business cards. Hell, they even put it on my offer letter.
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog...
Elements of Style `Nuff said...
OMGHI2U! Y helo thar LOLERSKATES!
Simple. Read the front page article about how to turn them off.
My father used to be a Dale Carnegie Course instructor and always talks about workers getting promoted to their level of incompetence. The basic theory in a huge unchecked corporate environment is that when a worker starts doing their job too well they get promoted as a reward for their hard work. When they learn their new job and start doing that job too well they get promoted again. Eventually they get promoted to just above their incompetence level and spend the rest of their lives floundering as a middle manager getting made fun of by their subordinates.
You don't happen to work for Splunk, do you? ;) Sorry...when I read that all I could think of are those Splunk ads that have been plastered all over /. for the past few months.
"Ewww...hardcopy!" - Mr. The Plague
Whups...the cross-compiler SDK link in the above post should be http://www.pepper.com/linux.
Insert obligatory Pepper Pad self-promotion here. ;) Seriously though, the future of a lot of these devices is how hackable they are and how easy they are to add third-party apps. The Pepper Pad has a rather small hacker following right now and we're in the process of putting together a full cross-compiler SDK in addition to giving users tools to compile natively.
Dude, they released the iBrator in 1999. Welcome to last century...
But that's the point. One of the first rules in any discipline is knowing when to break the rules. Writing, graphic design, photography, etc. Simply knowing what the rules are leads to better writing even if you're breaking them (like this sentence). If I had a nickel for every time I've fixed typos and other elementary mistakes on my employer's Web site that passed marketing's proofread I'd, well, have a lot of nickels.
Every style guide has people who love it and people who hate it; it's the people who use the guide as a loose reference instead of as a Bible that succeed.
Hence the word beginner's in the title...