Using Custom Vars on Google Analytics

Sean Bluett says.....

Here's quick tip for GA. Ever wanted a break down of user activity based on user type or even user id?
You can add any type of custom variable to each google page load.
You can then view the break down using custom reports or just browse through your dash board.



Read more ... http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gaJS/gaJSApiBasicConfiguration.html#_gat.GA_Tracker_._setCustomVar

If you used this on JOOMLA site you can just use JFACTORY to get the current user data like user type, user name etc. and then send it to GA with each page.
Make sure you set the varaible scope! but you can read all about that in the API

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try {
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-XXXXXXX");

/**Begin custom**/
ffGaUserIdTrackedSuccess = pageTracker._setCustomVar( 1, "UserId", ffGaUserId , 1 );
 console.log("Return value for _setCustomVar using " + ffGaUserId + " is " + ffGaUserIdTrackedSuccess);
  /**END  custom**/


pageTracker._trackPageview();
} catch(err) {}
 

This Is Apple's Next iPhone

Sean Bluett says.....Gizmodo robbed or found a new version of the iPhone....

Read full article and videos and stuff



It was found lost in a bar in Redwood City, camouflaged to look like an iPhone 3GS.


and then....................
iPhone blogger has computers seized by police

Crockford on JavaScript

Sean Bluett says.....check out these javascript videos

Crockford on JavaScript: The Complete Series 

Douglas Crockford is a senior JavaScript  architect at Yahoo!, and is a writer and speaker on JavaScript, JSON, and related web technologies.

He has a degree in Radio and Television from San Francisco State University.[1]

Crockford is well known for his work in introducing JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). He has also worked on the computerization of media at Atari, Lucasfilm, and Paramount. He became something of a cult figure on videogame oriented listservs in the early 1990s after he posted his memoir "The Expurgation of Maniac Mansion" to a videogaming bulletin board; the memoir documented his efforts to censor the computer game Maniac Mansion to Nintendo's satisfaction so that they could release it as a cartridge, and Crockford's mounting frustrations as Nintendo's demands became more obscure and confusing.[2]

Together with Randy Farmer and Chip Morningstar Crockford founded Electric Communities and was its CEO from 1993 to 2001. He was involved in the development of the programming language E.



http://www.crockford.com/

JOOMLA! Vulnerable Extensions List

Sean Bluett says.....

This should be a constant reference for all you fellow JOOMLA developers

http://docs.joomla.org/Vulnerable_Extensions_List 

Ignore these vunerable extension warnings at your peril. I am plagued by wasters who are contantly ripping at Joomla 1.0 extensions that were written poorly.