What is Woopra?

Woopra is the world’s most comprehensive, information rich, easy to use, real-time Web tracking and analysis application. And it’s free!

Woopra is an amazing tool to see live stats of your blog or small webpage, you can see live visitors, click streams. Woopra show you in an easy way, where your visitors come from.

The integration with Worpress was easy: just downloaded their wordpress plugin (one file), waited 24 hours that Woopra approved by website to track (they do that manually), configured my Website ID in Woopra’s Plugin and started to track – quite easy.

Woopra offers an interesting approach with a java client application to get well designed analytics dashboard to get details of your current visitors.

This client application is much faster than for examples the web based application of IndexTools (Indextools was bought by Yahoo in April 2008).

I’m not sure, how Woopra scale with large Enterprise-grade web applications with Millions clicks a day, as Indextools does.
I think for small-sized webpages and blogs Woopra seems to be the easiest and best choice.

I didn’t found any customizable options at Woopra to track for example client-specific data like billingIds, orderIds etc.

Just now Woopra is in beta stadium, they offer a bug report forum, good for companies who offer software. I would recommend to use bug tracker like JIRA to search and find reported bugs easier.

One disadvantage i found is the CPU consuming java client, they need to analyze and refactor it.
Under Ubuntu 8.04 and Java 1.6.0_06 it took nearly 100% CPU with very small blog and few data updates. I don’t know what this client needs to calculate and has so much CPU usage!?

I will monitor their next beta and next development steps of Woopra.
For this beta stadium: good work from you guys at Woopra!

Compare Miro vs. Joost

See also:

• http://www.getmiro.com/
• http://www.getmiro.com/articles/miro_vs_joost.php

Published by The Thomas Koeppen Blog 2007.

AOL will end support for Netscape browsers on Feb. 1, 2008, according to a Friday entry on The Netscape Blog by Tom Drapeau, lead developer for Netscape.com.

We all nearly forget the good old netscape after switching to the great firefox.

• Love the great Firefox!
• Enjoy a Better Web Experience
• Firefox 2 delivers helpful new features to make your online experience more productive.

More Blog Posts:

• http://www.blogrunner.com/snapshot/D/2/1/end_of_support_for_netscape_web_browsers/
• http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

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Posted by The Thomas Koeppen Blog, 2007.

“The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the developer not shift focus more often than every few hours.”

—Steve C. McConnell, Software Project Survival Guide (more at codequotes.com ) by Neal Enssle.

from The Rational Edge: This introduction to the relatively new discipline of software architecture is the first of a four-part series on “architecting” in general. The author begins by defining the discipline’s key terms and goes on to explore what a well-designed architecture contributes to the environment in which it is deployed.

IBM’s Peter Eeles recent article he wrote in February 2006 some interesting aspects of What is software architecture?.

That’s like asking, what is culture? Culture is the way you do things in a group of people. Architecture is the way you do things in a software product. You could argue by analogy, then, that architecture is to a software product as culture is to a team. It is how that team has established and chosen its conventions.

One of the most important ways to think about architecture should be that it is an opportunity to provide leadership. The architecture embodies the decisions of the architects, the leaders, on how things should be done in the project. The architecture should make it easy for people working on the project to do things the right way: the way the architects believe things should be done. In other words, instead of just saying that things should be done a certain way, the architects should design architectural systems and structures that guide the team down that path.

REQUIREMENTS

Tyner Blain’s blog every worth reading about process, requirements, development as an artistic expression, quality, and HCI (human-computer interfaces). Never forget the Top five requirements gathering tips

1. Interviewing.
2. Brainstorming
3. Documenting use cases
4. Prototyping
5. Analyzing documents

I didn’t find a way how to manage more than hundreds URLs i like to bookmark, check for update, keep current etc. Some years ago i used for bookmarking an offline MS window’s based tool named linkman (see http://www.outertech.com/).

Advantage was central admin of bookmarks, export to mozilla, explorer, my webpage.

Disadvantage is, that there is no automatic daily update of all my systems and a missing port to linux.

Since 2004 i switched to linux on my desktop completely, so i am missing some tools under linux: total commander, araxis merge, linkman, visio.

Perhaps i find a new solution in near future..

I know all these fine tools and the growing social bookmark pages, but i did not found the best solutions to organize about 1000 bookmarks and keep them current -

• bookmark tool list http://www.lights.com/pickalink/bookmarks/
• del.icio.us (A social bookmarks manager)
• Ma.gnolia.com (Find web sites with Ma.gnolia’s social bookmarking online community. Organize bookmarks)

help me?

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