Per default, Google Analytics tracks the whole URL. As a lot of our URLs contain some parameters or IDs, and we’re not interessted in tracking them, we needed to find a way to truncate them. As Grails unfortunately does not provide methods to access the current view and controller (which is basically what we’d like to track) in GSPs, we used this code:
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pageTracker._trackPageview(${request.getServletPath() – ‘/grails/’ – ‘.dispatch’});
Not as clean as we’d like to have it, so suggestions are welcome!
Since years I wanted to make a Flash game again, and when Alex from marketing came with this “we want something from you” look in his eyes I was only too happy to help them build a little Christmas game for our customers. After half an hour the very first prototype was finished and evolved within three weeks (with the help of Helga, who drew all those cute trees and mushrooms!) to a real game with multiple levels, sound effects and even a step-by-step instruction.
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If you read this you are probably a software developer or one of my colleagues checking, what the marketing nerd is writing in the developers blog. But try to imagine you are the one on the other side of the wall, the guy looking for people like you: the best performing… What would you do to find these rare species?
Not your business, sure, but then please don’t blame recruiting people for the uninspiring campaigns once you are looking for a job. To be open we are facing the same challenge (a marketing guy never uses the word ‘problem’) like other companies. One of the results of our thinking ‘how to find the best performing…’ is this place to be, the realdevelopers page. >> more…
The internet has a profound impact on software. Even on software that is locally installed on a device (in this case the iPhone)
Here are the guidelines that Apple gives to their ISVs how often to update their applications.
(c) Apple Inc.
Look Ma, we’re on TV! Well, almost… the last few days Alex and me created a short flash animation which will be shown on Munich’s Infoscreens – those things in the subway showing news, the wheather forecast, valuable inforamtion about the “number of the day” and now conject’s advertisment. I like these special tasks for the marketing department, because it was a rather tough decision for me to quit doing shiny glossy Flash stuff for advertisement agencies and work as a real developer here at conject. Perfect match for both!
