In light of the newly changed UK government and recent blogpost about Google Suggest, I thought I’d check the current state of the nation’s thoughts as predicted by Google UK.
How? Type part of a sentence in the search form, then sit back and wait for the concerns of the people to be revealed.
At work, we use Sungard HE’s Luminis portal (v3.3) — It’s been good to us over the years, but there’s a lack of usage information regarding users’ roles and their interactions with Luminis.
In the past, we’ve added Google Analytics to Luminis to track the interactions, but never managed to fully segment user roles. [...]
I recently started building Confluence plugins. The first one being my Google Analytics plugin for Confluence. This post outlines my “journey” into Confluence plugin development. It documents a beginner’s pitfalls when developing with the Atlassian Plugin SDK. Hopefully others can learn from, or at least laugh at my mistakes.
Where I was starting [...]
…or how to display attachments in an unordered list.
Something that bugs me in Confluence is the way that attachments are shown. The default view is a big table with just about all the information related to each attachment.
This is great if you want all this detail, but I’m a simple soul [...]
Here’s a quick demo I wrote to test out the Google Analytics API.
It shows pageviews for an Atlassian Confluence wiki on a space by space basis.
You’ll need your own copy of Confluence hooked up to Google Analytics for the demo to work, so I’ve done a video demo too – no sound, sorry.
Confluence & Google [...]
Here’s a quick screencast I made to show how easy it is to add custom segments – e.g. based on country/territory – to Google Analytics. There’s no audio. Sorry.
Adding custom segments to Google Analytics from David Simpson on Vimeo.
If you’re using the Verdana typeface in your printed documents, stop now.
There is no need and it is helping destroy the planet.
Verdana takes up about 19% more horizontal space than Arial. So a switch away from Verdana could reduce your paper costs by up to 19%. For further savings, switch [...]
Want to know who are the most active users on your Confluence wiki this week?
This wiki markup snippet should help. It tabulates:
Overall activity
Page creations
Page Updates
Page views
Page Popularity
h1. This Week’s Wiki User Activity Charts
h2. Overall
{topusers:spaces=@all|timespan=1w|period=weekly|events=create,update,view|display=icon,title,count}
h2. Breakdown
<code>
|| Page Creation || Page Updates || Page Views || Page Popularity ||
| {topusers:spaces=@all|timespan=1w|period=weekly|events=create|display=icon,title,count} | {topusers:spaces=@all|timespan=1w|period=weekly|events=update|display=icon,title,count} | {topusers:spaces=@all|timespan=1w|period=weekly|events=view|display=icon,title,count} | {popular:spaces=@all|timespan=1w|period=weekly|events=view|display=icon,title,count} |
</code>
You’ve chosen Confluence as your Enterprise wiki and got it installed. People are using it. But how many people?
You could have a look at the Global Activity page on Confluence, but this might confuse matters.
You’ll get to see graphs, but what do they really mean? The Global Activity statistics are [...]
To find out which of the UK’s national newspapers has the best readability, I chose a news story at random that was recently covered in each of the newspapers.
I tested the readability of each newspaper’s article using my own online readability testing tool.