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Discover Your Most Popular Mobile Content In A Google Analytics Report

Posted Tue, 05/10/2011 - 19:58 by matt.goodwin

I wanted to know if it was possible to view which content is most popular among my mobile users?

I posted a tweet and I got a nibble from a friend (Thanks @mhoefer).

Here's how to do it:

Step 1 - Log into Google Analytics and click the drop down for Advanced Segments "All Visits".
Google Analytics Dashboard

How do I conditionally display a block based on my taxonomy terms ?

Posted Tue, 03/01/2011 - 21:36 by matt.goodwin

Display block on node based on taxonomy.

I have a few Drupal based blog posts. Each of them are tagged with the "Drupal" taxonomy term from my "Blog-Vocab" vocabulary.

I have created a new block that I want to display in my left sidebar, but here's my wrinkle . . . I only want it to display on blog posts that are tagged with the "Drupal" taxonomy term.

Here's what I did:

Generate a New Joomla Admin Password

Posted Thu, 10/21/2010 - 20:11 by matt.goodwin

I recently took on a project where the client had lost their Joomla Admin password.
The admin password cannot be recovered but can be reset since the passwords are stored using a one-way MD5 hash.

Using a tool like phpMyAdmin or MySQL Query Browser, find the admin user on the jos_users table
Copy and paste the complete password field's value into notepad
It will look something like this:

Add the KeeneYPN calendar to your Google or Outlook calendar.

Posted Thu, 12/31/2009 - 14:05 by matt.goodwin

Keep forgetting about the Young Professionals Network events like me?

Add the KeeneYPN calendar to your Google or Outlook calendar.

Here's how:

Google Calendar

Go to the Keene YPN website’s event calendar http://www.keeneypn.org/event
Right click on the iCal icon in the bottom right corner and save the link. It should look like this: http://www.keeneypn.org/event/ical/all/all
Go to your Google Calendar https://www.google.com/calendar/render?tab=mc

Google Analytics as a service offering

Posted Thu, 09/24/2009 - 13:49 by matt.goodwin

Here's how you can create value as a webmaster using Google Analytics as a service offering.

Setup & Configure Google account
Train Client on how to utilize reports and perhaps create them on their own
Support Clients with training and empowering them to administer GA on their own
How to implement it? You paste a snippet of Javascript that Google provides us into their site template

What does it give me

GeoTargeting - determine what geographic area the client's customers are coming from

How do I recover my Windows Administrator password

Posted Fri, 04/03/2009 - 10:30 by matt.goodwin

Windows password recovery tool

If you need to recover the passwords from a Windows XP or Windows Vista Machine, the easiest thing to do to retrieve your password is to use OPHCrack live CD.

I inherited a Dell Precision 340 the other day with Windows XP on it. It had been sitting in a PC graveyard for some time before being shipped to me.
This is how I was able to recover the administrator password to get this machine setup.

Download OPHCrack from sourceforge.
Windows XP:

Use Derived Tables instead of Temp Tables in SQL Server

Posted Wed, 03/18/2009 - 15:03 by matt.goodwin

Use Derived Tables instead of Temp Tables in SQL Server

The biggest benefit of using derived tables over using temporary tables is that they require fewer steps, and everything
happens in memory instead of a combination of memory and disk.
The fewer the steps involved, along with less I/O, the faster the performance.

Here are the steps when you use a temporary table:

1) CREATE the temporary table (write activity)
2) SELECT data & INSERT data (read & write activity)
3) SELECT data from temporary table (read activity)
4) DROP TABLE (write activity)

From the command line you can check your MX records using dig

Posted Tue, 02/17/2009 - 12:13 by matt.goodwin

From the command line you can check your MX records using dig

I’m sure there are other ways but I’ve recently learned a method to check your MX records using the dig command.

Dig is a pretty powerful command to have in your arsenal. Perhaps, I’ll provide a more complete tutorial someday but for now I’ll stick with this example.

$ dig ttamniwdoog.com MX

; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> ttamniwdoog.com MX
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 60650
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

Google Advanced Search Operators

Posted Mon, 12/22/2008 - 21:29 by matt.goodwin

Here are some examples of how to use Google's Advanced Search Operators
http://www.google.com/intl/gn/help/operators.html

Ever want to see who links to your website?
link:worldhealth.net

Ever want to search for a keyword but restrict your results to a specific site?
site:linkedin.com anti-aging

Ever want to search for specific keywords in the title?

mySQL table contains single quotes

Posted Fri, 12/05/2008 - 09:37 by matt.goodwin

I have a mySQL database with a table of email addresses but some of the email addresses have single quotes for odd some reason.
I'll need to add some validation to my form eventually.
I need to find them and fix them now.
Here's the SQL to find them
SELECT * FROM tbl_email WHERE LOCATE("'",user_email) > 0

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Discover Your Most Popular Mobile Content In A Google Analytics Report

How do I conditionally display a block based on my taxonomy terms ?

Generate a New Joomla Admin Password

Add the KeeneYPN calendar to your Google or Outlook calendar.

Keep forgetting about the Young Professionals Network events like me?

Add the KeeneYPN calendar to your Google or Outlook calendar.

Here's how:

Google Calendar

Google Analytics as a service offering

Here's how you can create value as a webmaster using Google Analytics as a service offering.

How do I recover my Windows Administrator password

Use Derived Tables instead of Temp Tables in SQL Server

From the command line you can check your MX records using dig

Google Advanced Search Operators

mySQL table contains single quotes