Halley Suitt is at Robert Scoble’s 40th b-day in Seattle…near Victoria. Seems that people from the East Coast are getting snowed in and missing the party [here].
At least 8 inches here at The Embassy…with a stiff wind…and now sign of stopping.
I hate you all…in the nicest possible way! 😉
In the Business 2.0 Blog, the author posits on the possibility that eBay may be reaching the theoretical limits of its network growth potential. In this case, I do not mean the technical TCP/IP network; I mean the business to client network that has been created around this community.
eBay has been trying to move into new markets and diversify — classifieds and rentals being two new opportunities. And the recent price increase has infuriated some of their long-term community members.
From personal experience, the treatment that the ZenWife received from the PayPal division has been enough for both of us to walk away from using it.
So, eBay, what are you going to do to make your user-community ecstatic to use you again? How are you going to make yourself a place where people want to do business, not a place where they grudgingly do business because you are a near-monopoly?
How will you make your community love you again?
My work laptop is now a fine machine, running Apache, PHP, Zend Optimizer and MySQL. A true development environment for a geek like me!
And just in time: storm’s a-comin’!
A while back I asked if anyone had a REGEXP to deal with IIS log files. Well, It was more complex than that. It seems that the logfiles are mangled by the MSFT log parser tool into a very weird format.
And here is the REGEXP I had to use.
/^(S+) (d+) (d+-d+-d+) (d+:d+:d+) (S+) (-) (S+) (S+) (S+) (d+) (S+) (.+?) (.+?) (S+) (S+) (-) (S+) (S+) (S+) (S+) (S+) (S+) (.+?) (.*)$/
Nice, isn’t it?
Jakob Neilsen has a great article on Web Design Standards. You often hear me discuss things along these lines at the application and HTML layer — HTTP and (X)HTML/CSS standards. I agree with what Jakob is saying: designers must consider how people will use their site, not just how they want them to use their site.
The Takeaway:
Why Websites Should Comply With Design Standards
One simple reason:
- Jakob’s Law of the Internet User Experience: users spend most of their time on other websites.
Ok, figured out the problem with the "/" [root document] query using FULLTEXT indices. It’s actually two problems,
So, my corner-case hack would have been necessary anyway.
Esther Derby has some great advice for managers…heck, for all of us.
1. Notice that what you are doing isnt working.
2. Notice what you are
feeling about that.
3. Center yourself.
4. Generate options.
5. Ask for
help if you need it.
6. Acknowledge your mistake.
7. Apologize if
necessary.
The non-billable hour has this great post on the idea of recovering costs for items such as printers, faxes, phones, etc.
Oh this is nice. What a great way to get your customers to come back to you. Lets bill them for everything we touch. Can’t wait for the cost-recovery implant that gets stuck into professional’s brains by their firms in order to capture the exact amount of brain-power a project took.
Ok, as Tim Bray does, I am here to expose the stupid with the great in all the code I write.
Mine was even more brain-damaged. I generate a series of aggregate Web Log stats,after filtering out bots/crawlers/images/css/robots.txt/etc., to generate meaningful information on the visitors to my sites.
However, the aggregate stats were not meshing with the drilldowns I was generating to examine data views, such as who hit what pages, who hit during what hour, etc.
Well, it helps if you look at the same data. The drilldowns used the following SQL filter:
ap.bytes != 0
Ummm…if I built the TEMP table for aggregate data view page using the same filter, the information would be aligned.
A Homer Moment…DOH!