Nice tool for tracking user behavior on a web page or within a form. I’ve tested it out and it works like a charm.
Added bonus: It’s also makes you feel like a spy.
For the past three years, I’ve been the chief architect and de facto user interface designer for my company’s search engine marketing application. This application is meant to be fast and efficient because it must return and analyze large amounts of data. As a result, the interface is pretty bare bones. Nothing fancy just straight HTML/CSS and some AJAX components here and there. Much of the data and interaction by the user is represented in a table format. You can pretty much sum up the entire application as a Excel spreadsheet with tabs on the top (as opposed to on the bottom which everyone misses in Excel). And there in lies my angst. There’s has got to be a better way than just a bunch of screen with interactive spreadsheets.
I’ve been looking around for some inspiration, but have come up empty-handed. Everyone is using either tables, grids, lists or tiles to display large numbers of records. In some cases, I’ve seen these views combined with some success, but these are just hybrids of the same old tired methods. Maybe there isn’t another way? Maybe these are the only ways humans can comprehend data. Or could there be a smell-o-vision spreadsheet in our future? There are 5 senses damn it. Let’s use them all.
I will pray to any God(s) who will release me from my table hell!
Remember when you could tear the end off one side of your straw wrapper and shoot it right into the eye of your friend? Well, recently I’ve noticed that you can’t do that anymore. The straw wrappers are so tight that you would need a air compressor to shoot out someone’s eye. I don’t know if this is because of the “Safety Nazis” or the machinery has become too efficiency. Either way, it stinks.
Now what can I pass along to my son and daughter? I’ve already done the “Diarrhea Song” and making farting sounds. How will the valuable knowledge of the Bliss legacy be passed on to future generations?
It took a lot of grave robbing from my fallen (meaning laid off) comrades and a request to IT for a old graphics card, but my dream has become a reality. It all started when I read this article about How Bill Gates Works. At the time of reading this, I thought “Wow! That’s some serious cash!”. You only see a three monitor setup in the spy movies. But with LCD flat panels so cheap, it’s a no-brainer.
I’ve even named each of them. The left is Paco (he handles all the communications). The middle is Manuel (he handles all the work). The right is Righty (she handles all reference materials for Manuel and Paco). Yes, I know. Very sexist, but it’s still funny.
Meet Paco, Manual and Righty
I always wanted to create a functioning Rube Goldberg web page. Here’s a sketch I created while waiting for a CD to burn.
I wouldn’t to get this mixed up with the squeez bacon. For more complete insane bacon products go to baconsalt.com
Bacon Spread! Need I say more?
Or you will get a message like this…
Pissed off DBA (aka Charles D.)