Yet another hit counter, and visitors tracker

Last weekend I developed a modest hit counter, and visitors tracker for websites, and published it as a sourceforge project.

I´ve been toying with the idea for a year now, until I decided to do it. In fact the sourceforge project was created months ago, but went through a series of name changes.

Naming sourceforge projects is like naming a blog, it shouldn't be difficult yet I find myself pondering a lot about the most suitable name, thinking about the implicancies of every candidate, and what types of audiences it would bait.

Initially it was mean to be Website Detective, now it's just IntraNET Tracker. I'm not entirely happy with the final choice, it's just not catchy.

Anyway, if you need a hit counter for you intranet, or even for your site in the internet, and you have the infrastructure to host it in Windows based servers, then it may come handy.

ok, now go use it

ADSL ANTEL y Frank Sinatra

La gente de ANTELDATA el proveedor por excelencia de ADSL de Uruguay, brinda un servicio 24x7 de soporte para la gestión de reclamos.

Desgraciadamente tuve que utilizarlo por segunda vez en seis meses, el pasado viernes, dado que fallecio mi modem adsl. Mi experiencia anterior entre pitos y flautas me mantuvo una semana sin internet.

Algo que me parece muuy comico, al llamar al telefono indicado, cuando te dejan en espera, se escucha una tonada, que corresponde ni mas ni menos que a MI WAY de Frank Sinatra. Estamos de acuerdo que es muy comico. En plan, quejate todo lo que quieras, pero al final las cosas se hacen a mi modo, al modo ADSL Antel.

sin mas, salutes

How to Embed a Picassa Slideshow in a Blog

I had the following problem, I had a bunch of pictures related to some article I wanted to post in my blog about Uruguay, but I didn´t want to embed the pictures directly, since they were too many of them.

Without thinking too much, the solutions I came up with were two. The first one, to create a video with a product like Photo Story, upload it in YouTube or Google Video, and then embed it in my blog. This one I discarded because I wanted to have the article published fast, and didn´t want to go through any wait for approval period. The second solution was to embed a slideshow of some web album directly in my blog post.

So I created a Picassa Web Album with all my pictures, and copied the generated url for my album´s slideshow (click the slideshow button, and copy the url).

Then I tried embeding the slideshow in my blog post with an iframe html tag. Something like this:

<iframe src="[Picassa Slideshow URL]" ></iframe>

It is possible to tune the dimensions of the embedded frame with the width, and height attributes of the iframe tag.
Example:

<iframe 
  src="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/fromuruguay/LaRambla/photo#s5012238251738683330" 
  width="400pt"
  height="300pt"
  ></iframe>

It looks something like this:




Not bad, right?

Himalia

Hoy vi una presentación de Himalia. Parece que alguien se motivo y definio un DSL para la generacion de interfaces de usuario en base a modelos de navegacion, y casos de uso modelados con maquinas de estado.

Haciendo drag n drops, y agregando aristas entre nodos generaba nuevas entradas en un menu, por ejemplo. No me termino de quedar claro como ese tipo de cosas se podrian a cargar dinamicamente, por ejemplo cuando las opciones vienen de un servicio, o una base de datos.

Me parece un abordaje interesante, original, para una problemática muy compleja.

Le deseo la mejor de las suertes a Leo Vernazza, me parece que vale la pena que lo prueben.