Christian Schneider

We’re looking for a great web analytics tool which also can tracking fo users. On my search I found several tools:

• http://piwik.org/
• http://www.jaspersoft.com/
• http://www.searchmetric.com
• http://getclicky.com
• http://etracker.de
• http://www.google.de/analytics
• http://www.reporting-center.de

In the next days we want to evaluate these tools and make a table of features. If there is anybody out there who knows other website analytics, tracking, evaluation tools please leave a comment. Our results will also be published in a later post.

There are a lot of great tutorials how to install a jboss application server behind an apache as load balancer, but I had the problem to get it running on one of our root servers. I tried a lot of things until I found the using mod_jk1.2 with jboss tutorial. It worked fine, but I can’t access the jboss tomcat via my web browser. The solution I then tried is to change “${jboss.bind.address}” with the IP address of the machine in the server.xml file ($JBOSS_HOME/server/all/deploy/jbossweb.sar/server.xml). I don’t know if it is the best solutionm, but it worked for me fine.

If you a better solution feel free to leave a comment, I’ll try it…

Some time ago we started to develop our projects with CodeIgniter. On this basis we were looking for good backend tool and we found BackendPro. Today I started a new project and was looking for some updates on the systems we use. I was surprised to find out that BackendPro was yesterday released in a new version: BackendPro 0.5 (THANK YOU very much Adam Price for this good work).

Here are the tools we actually using:

• Codeigniter 1.7.1
• BackendPro 0.5
• CodeIgniter Language File Translator
• Template Library for CodeIgniter

With the above mentioned tools you can do a lot of good things and get a lot of work done… Have fun!

Last nigth I updated our installation of Wordpress MU (is.blogorio.us) from version 2.6.5 to 2.7. First I was afraid of the trouble which could happen, but then I found the following tips for updating Wordpress MU.

The steps worked fine for me. Thank you very much.

Today I worked on a plugin for Wordpress. With the migration from my blog to blogorio.us I needed a widget for profile-o-mat. In the old template, for a standalone Wordpress blog, I integrated the widget manually in the sidebar. Now I needed to change this.

After a short look around and some tests I found the following tutorial for writing my plugin: WordPress Widget – Beginners Guide.

With this tutorial I wrote a plugin which is at the moment available on blogorio.us. In the next days you can find more information about this widget in the internet.

Today I searched for a possibility to make a webservice available for the IPhone. After looking at some forum and threads I found the following great tool: wsdl2objc – Generates Objective-C (Cocoa) code from a WSDL for calling SOAP services.

It worked fine for my development. The only thing I need to change from the usage instructions is the “Other C flags” options. (Add “-I/usr/include/libxml2″ to the Other C Flags property). I search for a predefined field until I learned that it needs to defined as a user specfic field.

Today I want to start my new blog on blogorio.us. Me, this is Christian Schneider, web developer at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany and CEO of conlabz.

Some of the topics I will show in the future are:

• PHP development with CodeIgniter
• Plone / Zope development
• ObjectivC development for IPhone application
• JBoss Application Server