Tomas' Blog

Bug in Google Analytics?

trusko — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:24:44 +0000

I was checking Google Analytics today when for one of my little projects when noticed this

Bug in GA?

Is there a bug or I don’t understand how it is supposed to work? Please ignore that there is 0 visitors, I already feel bad about it.

Very interesting hacker stats – OS, browser etc.

trusko — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 05:30:33 +0000

I recently posted link to my side-project complainator.com. I got some feedback, mostly constructive comments like – sh** happens, this website s**ks etc. Thank you all, I got some valid comments, really.

What was very interesting was when I looked at stats on Google Analytics:

It looks like brutal majority of hackers is using Chrome. Nice. I love Chrome. I like Safari, I don’t mind Firefox and I hate IE. Anyway, Chrome on what?

Now here is funny part. 29% Chrome on Mac followed by 22.5% Chrome on Windows and then close to 11% Chrome on Linux. Very interesting. None of this really surprises me except low usage of FF.

Anyway, for your own curiosity, if you care about OS:

Cool! ‘Macintosh’ took nearly 42%. Excellent! Followed by Windows and then Linux.

Keep on hacking,

The worst ‘My Account’ self-management web user interface

trusko — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 04:41:15 +0000

I like to collect all this error pages and I find it easier and easier. Can somebody to me explain why? It was never easier to do software engineering the right way. How is it that one man shops can come up with such a great user interfaces loaded with features. And yet multi-billion dollar companies release this terrible products.

First error with nice fish, very informative.

An how intuitive is this?! No help, no hints. I don’t have a clue what I am supposed to enter here.

Quality control at it’s finest:

How could someone get paid for this and still sleep at night?

iPhone iOS 4.1

trusko — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:08:46 +0000

Yes, upgrade. All those performance issues were fixed. Well, at least those that I experienced in the past.

It’s not my day today

trusko — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:52:13 +0000

Tough day, all sites are just crashing on me. Now LinkedIn

Seriously, is it so difficult to maintain decent website?! Maybe no Ajax just make it work, please. Honestly, I am very depressed by quality of some websites today.

I love Django

trusko — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:26:49 +0000

I love Django and I love this site – http://ihatedjango.com/

ihatedjango.com

Rogers – did you experience more chaotic, disorganized company?! (except Telus)

trusko — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:43:31 +0000

My wife’s phone credit expired. One of the reasons is that after every call she receives SMS that with the balance from Rogers that costs her $.15. I was shocked when we walked to Rogers booth in the Lougheed Mall and learned that they have no fliers listing all Rogers plans, features etc. We were told to go online, everything is there.

Well, first of all we walked to the mall because Rogers website is constantly crashing. Once more we learned we have to use it.

Rogers website crash

Ok, I gave it another chance. Well, crash again. Then after another 20 minutes of trying finally I got to the point we were able to change our plan. But it was asking $29 for $20 plan! Ok, time to call Rogers. Melanie picked up the phone. If you don’t know, Melanie is Roger’s human replacement. Melanie keeps asking questions and expects simple answers or pressing the right button. Well, I just kept saying operator for 3 solid minutes and Melanie gave up and actually connected me to real person. This is the place where I have to stop complaining. Customer representative was really nice, helped me with the plan, which we had to change twice, because plan didn’t offer AutoSaver feature as it was listed on the website.

iPhone OS 4 – My thoughts

trusko — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:08:53 +0000

As many of you I can’t move more than 10 feet away from my iPhone and when I don’t see it for more than 1/2 hour I start sweating and get some kind of rash. No, it’s not that bad. But I do like my iPhone. It is great productivity tool and excellent tool for reading news, staying in touch with your friends etc. Wherever you are – doctor’s office, bus, washroom …

I recently upgraded to latest OS version 4. People warned me but I just like fresh crispy releases at no matter what the cost is. So far I don’t regret it. Here are some of the reasons why I like it so far.

Email
No more jumping between 7 mailboxes. All mail is now nicely consolidated in one mailbox called ‘All Inboxes’. Sweet.However opening email is slower. I am not sure it if is because of overall ‘being slower’ or because of added features.

speed
It is slower. Loading applications, getting email. Overall, it is slower. Sometime after I slide little button to open it up and enter the pass code it takes close to a minute until I am able to enter the pass code.

Announcement: www.plentyofevents.com

trusko — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:58:40 +0000

Web development is something that alway fascinated me. Sharing results of your work with millions of people (ideally)? Can’t beat that. And using one of the most productive frameworks like Django it gets even better. I was working with Django for last year part time at work. Every time I was learning some new feature I was just writing dummy code. Then I realized: “I should start working on one site and learn it while building it”. But what kind if web site? Something useful. It there will be 100 people using it in a single day I would consider it a success.

And so I came up with the idea of www.plentyofevents.com. Website where you can discover, promote and share events with other people. I do not discriminate. Any type of event – free lessons, charity walks, sales events even garage sale if you want to. The idea is that when you wake up on one of these days and don’t know what to do – go to www.plentyofevents.com. How do I make money? I don’t and I don’t care at this point. Doesn’t cost me that much to host the website. I just want to help people to better spend their weekends. We have two kids ourselves and I know how bad we sometimes feel when we see pictures from local newspapers from some of the events that we didn’t have clue about. Currently there are events for major Canadian cities (Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, Victoria, Ottawa, Montreal ) only. However, you can enter events for any US or Canadian city if you want to. And give some feedback to make www.plentyofevents.com very pleasant user experience.

psycopg2 in virtualenv on OS X

trusko — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:55:07 +0000

If there is anybody out there that succeeded to get psycopg2 working in Django on OS X – let me know. I spent hours reinstalling, installing from source and not luck. I know there is tons of posts, none of them works for me.

Thanks

I tried it all – install postgres from source, run python in 32 bit mode, reinstall everything … I don’t want to use macports and fink.

Using OS X for Django development is sometimes pain …

Update
I gave up and installed psycopg2 and posgres using macports. Save yourself some pain and use macports.