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I am looking for some tool or service that can be used to track arbitrary events in web based software, for the purpose of running A/B tests and measuring various other things. I am aware of Optimizely, but that seems only suitable for testing simple things in normal websites and Google Analytics is not really suitable for this type of things and there is a lot of hassle when you want to track events from the backend and link them with a user's session in GA.
An ideal solution would be some service accepting HTTP GET requests with arbitrary parameters and then letting users do queries in an SQL-like language. I have many times put together some less scalable solution with MySQL or a less flexible one that stores everything in text files and processed and aggregated them separately into desired format. But building a both flexible and scalable version would require a lot more time and I guess there are already good solutions out there. Does anyone know of any?
Other requirements are:
It must be possible to do both back-end and front-end requests.
It must be possible to do use it in widgets, running on other peoples' websites
It would be nice if it could automatically create readable reports with maybe some diagrams, etc.
If anyone has any experience with this kind of tools, I would be very glad to hear your thoughts.
Thanks for your help.
Have you tried mixpanel? We've found it quite flexible and powerful.
https://mixpanel.com/
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I want to send newsletter with cakephp.
Which plugin is good for it?
cakeresque,
CakePHP Queue Plugin,
CakePHP Email Queue plugin,
or etc ...
First off: How to Ask.
Moving on to the answer, I really need more context with your problem. Is this for a business? Professional? Are there any circumstances that might make you favor one over the other?
Without knowing any context, I'd scratch off the Queue plugin. It is pushing for minimalistic, but it doesn't sound like that is what you want. On the other end, CakeResque seems a bit overkill, and may be too much for your needs. Email Queue plugin seems simple enough to get the job done, but it hasn't been updated in two years, which could potentially cause problems if you aren't careful. (Sorry if this seems like common knowledge to you, but I have no context on how experienced you are.)
It really depends on what you like more. CakeResque is probably a safe bet, as it seems updated and you will find a lot more support than you might on the open source projects, but I prefer the last one, Email Queue plugin, as it is simple and gets it done fine.
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i am working as reports developer using Cognos BI and i want to learn any one of below BI tools.
Microstrategy
WebFocus
Can any one suggest the best tool from above to learn in career perspective.
Thanks,
Phani
Disclaimer, I'm a former MicroStrategy employee and I never worked on WebFocus.
My suggestion is to go with MicroStrategy, first of all your knowledge of BI and SQL will came very handy to you to understand how the MicroStrategy SQL engine works and how the objects you create in MicroStrategy will be transformed on the database side.
So, if you have your back(-end) covered you can focus on the other key features of MicroStrategy: in memory cubes, possibility to connect to MDX sources or webservices, advanced analytics and above all the mobile part.
If you are more interested in the nerdy stuff (maybe it's not your case, but I came to BI from the SQL side) the focus on the Mobile and Data Visualization (MicroStrategy Visual Insight) can be a bit appalling, but I believe that to have an exposure to the front-end components is important to see the big picture.
Anyway career wise MicroStrategy looks to me a more wise choice than WebFocus, but as I said at beginnin my perception can be biased
Offcourse Microstrategy.
Its an awesome tool provides the vast ability to analyze huge amounts of data.
Microstrategy provides flexibility to the users, good scalability, nice user interface & impressive iPad capabilities.
And career is always green compared to WebFocous.
My vote goes for Microstrategy!
Thanks
I've always tried to make decisions like this, by focusing on what will be best for my users, rather than what would be best for me.
To support this type of focus with the question at hand, take a look at things like strength/longevity of vendor, scope of product offerings, simplicity of implementation/maintenance, number of back-end databases/appliances supported, number of/type of report/graph formats, scalability,...
Good luck with your decision!
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Nearly all our work is "by hand" with some excellent in-house frameworks. However, these are for ERP-style applications and are (sometimes too) complex. Working with more business-critical applications, one focuses on function and not pleasantry.
We have a need to bring up some non-trivial "external-facing" data entry forms. There will likely be several+ hundred various form workflows. (e.g. customer, product, store, &c).
Is there a web simple framework where one can define forms in a database table (e.g. field_name, field_length, field_type, &c) and have said framework manage the type validation, date via calendar, POST/GET of the web form records back into the DB for upsert?
Basically a table-driven forms framework?
Would love to have the designers style it with CSS, but low on priority just now.
This seems so 1996/CGI-ish but why can't I find anything like this? Any recommendations for this requirements? We don't need advanced caching and OO mapping, and a lot of that other jazz. PHP | JSP | CGI is fine.
I've done multiple data entry and reporting applications by extending the Django admin application which works in this fashion. Work is mostly declaring tables (models), validation, columns, columns to search/sort/filter by and display etc and you can glue on more complex logic if you want, but you may hit a wall if you are unfamiliar with more advanced aspects of the framework. If you don't mind python, web2py and turbogears2 have similar devices.
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My shop is trying to formalize the release management process for an OSS product we maintain (edit: using SVN for version control). It's a sort of a web development framework/CMS kind of thing, as in it's a product that other projects are built on top of. This makes clear communication about the versioning system especially critical for developers that are using the tool.
I'm hoping to find some examples of how best to graph this system so we can communicate it better internally and with outside developers. I know there are lots of standards and best practices around versioning, so I'm hoping this extends to some sort of visual vocabulary as well. As one example, there is a nifty graph at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versioning#Software_Versioning_schemes. Are there any guides out there on how these sorts of things should be designed?
First, if it is an OSS project, chances are the versioning system ism a Distributed one (DVCS)
If so, then this branching model can be of interest.
The idea is to control what you want to integrate from remote repos.
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I need this too. The built-in graph in Tortoise SVN is too busy, but I've made use of it. But for soemthing like VonC's picture above, I think I'm going to go with a dry erase board and colored markers. I'll hang it outside my cube. Annotate it with revs, dates, sprints and projects, and we'll be all set.
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Anyone know of a system or framework for a non-programmer form creation? Not a full implementation, but something that handles the designer aspect and something that handles the displaying for being filled in. All the logic we'll be doing. Maybe just a pair of widgets.
We've got a client-server application into which normal users enter and modify data in a thick client and we want to allow the customers to update and create forms with another thick client application, rather than calling us every time they need a letter changed. We want something to do the display bits while we implement the various hooks and functions the system uses.
We're a java shop, but we expect that we're open to writing these clients in another language if it'll be easier.
Possibly Xopus with a schema for the XForm could work.
http://xopus.com/
Try searching for XForms libraries and tools. XForms is a new-ish standard format for defining forms and there are some libraries and tools available for it. Haven't tried any of these myself.
EDIT:
This looks interesting: http://www.orbeon.com/forms/builder
Well, you're a Java shop so this might not be the best tool for you, but from you description you look like a classic case for Infopath:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/infopath/default.aspx