More than once I’ve tried to be more productive during a working day by limiting the times of the day that I check and respond to emails. I first came across this idea in the book The 4 hour work week and again in Do it Tomorrow.
I’ve tried working with having only certain times of the day when I check my email. It works for a day or so but I usually fail to keep going for any number of reasons such as meetings, phone calls (because I didn’t respond to an email) or even my own habit of opening up my mail without even thinking.
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A few months ago I wrote a script to monitor the links on a webpage that users are clicking on to leave the page.
The script is a combination of; CSS to label the links to be tracked, Javascript to trigger the code when the link is clicked and finally PHP to store the time, current page, destination page, browser agent and IP address of the user.
The links use a Class within the link to label the links to monitor and doesn’t change the link itself, retaining any referral address.
I wanted to test this out over time and give it an easy page to work with rather than putting it on to the blog straight away to monitor the links there.
I put the script on my own Murrion Software homepage which is a simple screen showing a logo and 3 links. This links go to this blog, a ‘tools’ page containing other free tools and scripts and also to a ‘contact’ page.
Here are the (rounded) percentages of clicks each button received from August to October inclusive.
‘Tools’ link : 41%
‘Blog’ link : 31%
‘Contact’ link : 17%
10% left the page without clicking any link.
It’s not quite a heat-map but it’s interesting to see. I’ve swapped around the buttons now to see if their position has any influence on clicks over the next 3 months. I imagine there will be little or no difference.
Amazing high speed robotic hand. (YouTube video)
Some research from Red Cardinal about Malware Stats for Irish Web Hosting Companies.
RefactormyCode.com Gget your code improved or help others improve their code.
Server2Go, Create a server which runs off a CDROM or USB stick, very handy and very free too.
Use FormIgniter to create forms for use with CodeIgniter. It outputs the neccessary model, view and controll code. A great time saver.
Code in your browser with PHPanywhere. Theres also a techcrunch article about it.
If you think a website might be infected with the Gumblar virus? Try out this free tool and read this blog post on how to remove it.
Is this the video of the future? 360 degree video.
DesignFellow are giving away a free CodeIgniter Cheat sheet. I have mine printed out and stuck on the wall.
An excellent tutorial from Nettuts, develop an app in CodeIgniter and then developing the exact same app using Ruby on Rails. From CodeIgniter to Ruby on Rails: A Conversion
