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5 ways to exclude your own visits from Google Analytics

08-28-2014 , 26 comments
5 ways to exclude your own visits from Google Analytics

It is quite annoying that our Google Analytics traffic statistics are adversely affected by our own visits or those of any member of our team (internal traffic). Even more in early stages of websites, while still receives little traffic and our activity is a greater percentage compared to the total activity. Not only modifies appreciably the number of visits per se, but also the number of page views per visit, bounce rate and average time spent per user among many other parameters. This makes sense, as it is when we spend more time reviewing each and every one of our web pages or performing unfinished development tasks.

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Perfom Windows backups using rsync and DeltaCopy Server

08-28-2014 , 6 comments
Perfom Windows backups using rsync and DeltaCopy Server

Rsync and Windows?

Many corporate and heterogeneous networks use the rsync protocol to perform server backups or to keep files synchronized automatically from one or more directories on different machines. Linux natively incorporates the rsync utility and other associated tools, but what do you do when you need to backup Windows folders automatically from a NAS or a remote machine? One option could be to use Samba to read the contents of those folders from Linux, but it would be a fairly complex solution, because it would force us to configure Samba on the server side, set the various permissions and configuration options in Windows and place both machines on the same local network or configure complex rules on our firewall to allow SMB/CIFS traffic. And yet, the file transfer through the network would not be safe, because it would be made text clear with no encryption.

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How to create a Windows SSH server

08-18-2014 , No comments
How to create a Windows SSH server

Neither version of Windows, either Windows XP, Windows 7, or 8 or more modern versions such as Windows Server 2008 or Windows 2012, provides an SSH server to use a standard way to access from other machines with different operating system and be able to run console commands, copy files, forward ports or automate logins by using public/private keys. The Microsoft alternative to this is WinRM / Powershell, but many are the chances that we will need to find a standard and compatible way to access to other systems, and what better way to do this than using the widespread and well-known SSH protocol to get into our Windows machines securely.

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SugarCRM customization for advertising and online marketing agency

02-18-2014 No comments
SugarCRM customization for advertising and online marketing agency

Client: omitted for confidentiality reasons

This project consisted in performing out a thorough SugarCRM customization to provide it with several features specifically tailored to customer requirements and not provided by SugarCRM CE, as different automatically calculated fields, complex data validations based on states and values of related modules, image galleries, multimedia support to host and manage video and audio files from SugarCRM, etc.

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Fashion website based on Yii Framework

12-17-2013 No comments
Fashion website based on Yii Framework

This time we made a complete website for www.trendmii.com, a fashion industry innovative startup. Based on Yii Framework 1.1.13, it was endowed with a customized responsive design able to fit perfectly into any display size, wheter mobile or tablet. We also provided technological consultancy and online marketing services.

This website consists of a fully customized frontend inspired by a mix of bootstrap themes like Vivid 2.0, Serenity and Maximum All in One, and also an administrator based on Ace Admin theme. Employed technologies were HTML5, Bootstrap, CSS3 and jQuery in both cases.

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Private customer area developed in Yii Framework and SugarCRM

10-13-2013 No comments
Private customer area developed in Yii Framework and SugarCRM

Client: Omitted for reasons of confidentiality. Electricity distribution company (Spain)

This work consisted in implementing an exclusive private area only accessible to customers from the corporate website of an electricity distribution company. This reserved area should display information to customers about their own contracts, monthly consumption and billing data, while should allow modification of its own basic user data.

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SugarCRM extensive customization for electricity marketer company

10-05-2013 No comments
SugarCRM extensive customization for electricity marketer company

Client: Omitted for reasons of confidentiality. Electricity distribution company (Spain)

This was the first project of a long series that I conducted for an electricity distribution company from Spain whose name I omit for confidentiality. This organization had very specific needs that required a comprehensive custom development process, but for various considerations it was not desirable to start development from scratch. Therefore, the client chose to take an existing application providing the more general features required as contact management, customers and suppliers management, shared calendar, integrated email, etc. But at the same time that application had to be flexible and extensible enough to allow a whole range of custom blocks to be developed to meet their specific requirements.

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