A Path Less Taken

Random web surfing brought me to a great post that examined the Technorati top 100 blogs and the blogging software they use. The information on blogging software is interesting, but what is equally interesting is exploring some of the top 100 blogs to see what others are reading. If you are interested head over to Royal Pingdom and check out the article.

If you have never been to ohloh then you should definitely check it out. Ohloh’s goal in their own words is “to provide more visibility into software development.” To that end ohloh appears to crawl source code repositories and compiles a number of metrics about the languages, comments, contributors, and other data that can be measured. Then it provides graphs of the data that allow you to compare projects and languages. If you are interested in open source development then you should check this site out.

Piwik is out (for now) and AWStats is in. The decision was not as clear cut as I would have hoped, but given my situation I think it’s for the best. Nothing against Piwik. I just have some limitations that make it a less than appealing option.

I’ve been working on a new application and I wanted to do URL re-writing in LightTPD. I was having trouble coming up with a regular expression (regex) that worked. If found some references that were pretty helpful and that allowed me to accomplish what I wanted. I’m listing them here in the hopes they might be helpful to you.

Big (and little) changes are brewing for my blog. These are slated to include a new custom built theme, a possible name change, better Search Engine Optimization (SOE) and better analytical tools to track visitors (or lack there of). To get the ball rolling I’ve installed the Piwik Web Analytics tool to track visitors to the site. Here is a little more detail about this interesting tool.