Lately, it feels like there’s an arms race in the “cheap static hosting” space. In today’s blog, I share my current favourite approach, using Azure Blob Storage and Cloudflare. I explain the problems I’ve encountered with other Blob Storage approaches, as well as how they can be overcome using Cloudflare. Oh, and it costs less and £0.01 per month. Intrigued? Read on…
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Goodbye GoDaddy! Hello SiteGround!
I’ve recently ditched GoDaddy for my personal hosting needs, moving my stuff (including this blog) to SiteGround. In this post, I talk about why I moved and the rewards for doing so. Also, I’ll share my initial experiences of using Let’s Encrypt and Cloudflare, which SiteGround has enabled.
Continue readingNDepend now supports OpenCover coverage files
Back in December 2017, I wrote about starting to use NDepend for static analysis. It’s a fantastic tool and I’ve been using it for the ConTabs project pretty religiously. One of the few detractors when I originally wrote about NDepend was the fact that it could only consume coverage data from non-free tools. Well, I’m very pleased to write that this is no longer the case!
Continue reading3 advanced techniques for the Mixpanel and Google Analytics power user
What do you do when you feel like you’ve reached the limits of what Mixpanel and/or Google Analytics can offer? Well, as a reader of this blog, I can assume you’re not the type to give up. In this fourth instalment of my series on using behavioural event data, I explore some semi-hidden features of Mixpanel, discuss Google Data Studio, and square up to a Frankensteinian stitching of Mixpanel to your ESP of choice. It’s gonna be a wild ride – buckle up!
Continue readingPractical pointers for working with Segment, Mixpanel and Google Analytics
Whilst Segment makes it easy to quickly start sending events from your app, there are plenty of non-obvious details. In this post, I’m going to share some of the tips and tricks we learnt on our journey towards rock-solid metrics in Mixpanel and Google Analytics.
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