I’m totally open to the idea that I will probably end up realising that there are too many problems to solve here and I’ll end up using an off-the-shelf, open source tool instead. But I’m plugging on because it’s fun. I actually now have a very very basic working system that is collecting data from…
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As I build this thing I’m constantly thinking about performance. I need registering a page view to be as fast and efficient as possible because on a busy site you don’t want to clog the server up with logging views and you want to avoid race conditions where two page views are updating the same…
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I’ve been thinking about not just HOW to track, but WHAT to track. And these are related. My tracking method will, to some extent, dictate what I can track. For example, using a simple pixel image or reference to a URL in HTML or CSS will not be able to send me the URL of…
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I’ve now got a fresh install of Laravel, which will be the framework I’ll try to build this on – it’s both the framework I’m most familiar with, and the one I’m trying to learn more about. I’m going to try to take an approach called “Test Driven Development” (TDD) – which I’m also trying…
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