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The Direct Traffic Myth

by adam on December 27, 2009

Have you ever wondered how exactly “direct” traffic is measured in Google Analytics? For the most part, this traffic comes from users directly navigating to your site through their browser toolbar or a bookmark. As it turns out there [...]

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Speeding up Wordpress

by adam on November 24, 2009

Once your wordpress blog starts getting traffic besides your mom and cousins you will likely have to start taking measures to reduce it’s cpu footprint.
Note: Some of these methods will work on a shared host without root access, but ssh [...]

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Hadoop, Pig, and Twitter

by adam on October 31, 2009

Hadoop, Pig, and Twitter (NoSQL East 2009)
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Tutorial: Setting up Wordpress to communicate with Flash via XML

by adam on October 12, 2009

This following bit of code should get you up and running with a simple way of sharing data from your wordpress blog with a flash object. Creating the XML file is a bit of a hastle, since you can’t [...]