When reviewing the analytics for this site, I often guess how much of that traffic is myself. After some consideration, I decided to use Justin Cutroni’s cookie solution. He wrote the solution in 2006 for the old analytics. I’m testing it on the new GA code and it seems to be working just fine.

The basic idea is put a form on your website that lets you name a cookie. The form will set the cookie on your computer. This lets you set a cookie for any number of computers. The only downside is if you clear your cookies, you’ll have to reset it.

The next step is to create a custom filter in your Google Analytics account that will exclude traffic from computers with that cookie on them.

See Justin’s article at Analytics Talk

I know there are plenty of articles and posts for setting up a development server. Yet I still find the need to write up the exact commands and process for my later self to refer to, especially since I haven’t found a clone function in VMware Fusion like the linux version has. A pet “when-I-have-time” project would be to turn these steps into a bash script. Continue reading

In January, 2008 we finally redesigned our website. It was long overdue. As a matter of fact, neglecting our own sites is so common a problem amongst web developers, that some folks started up Design Deadline which offers a public review of the redesign, which we participated in. Continue reading