Deepak Kar – Page 3 – ~things that matter~

Explored the API Explorer?

On October 24, 2013

API sounded scary? Never again.

Did you know you could use Adobe Analytics API to do almost everything that you do on the UI and other import/export functionalities?

(Hint: You do not need to know programming to start using the APIs.)

Try the Adobe Analytics API Explorer today:

Please see the really simple tool-tip instructions and you should be all set. (Basically, you need to be sure what Data Center holds your data.)

Creating a Report Suite via Adobe Analytics API Explorer

Once you think you are on the right path and are getting the right response, go talk to someone who can incorporate this experiment of yours into a production-ready script in whatever language they are comfortable with.

Drupal This Time!

By DRK

On December 15, 2012

In Outside The Box

IFs and Loops can do Wonders!

Every time I had to induce some confidence in a budding programmer, I would say – you need to remember two things: the conditionals and the repeating loops. Humans invented computers to do just those two things – the comparisons again and again, and yet again, without being stressed out.
On a trip to Dulles (the airport in DIE HARD 2, not Dallas), we encountered a need to upgrade a large internal portal based on Drupal. The upgrade failed and we were about to roll back.

Though I had tested Drupal once or twice for personal projects, handling it in an enterprise set up was a different beast. However, with confidence in the “backup” we had taken, I went ahead and made some script changes to facilitate an upgrade. Voila, it went through. Boss said “you just paid for your trip!“

Instances like that make you believe in yourself. In subsequent days and weeks, I built Drupal modules, linked that with Adobe/Omniture API. Built user self-certification system for requesters to prove their knowledge on Omniture (Adobe) Discover and claim their reward – the access permissions to Discover! This would also communicate with the organization LDAP jumping across servers and making sure ex-employees’ permissions were revoked. And did I mention, I had to make the module randomly pull a healthy mix of easy and not-so-easy questions?

Protected: Why Google Analytics might be better for you!

By DRK

On July 4, 2011

In Uncategorized

Abusive comment IP tracked!

By DRK

On April 30, 2011

In Goings On

One of the reasons I do not use Google Analytics on this blog is simply because I don’t need the bells and whistles. I am more interested in knowing who (of my friends) were on my blog, and have no requirements to do further analysis.

After looking at quite a few simple you-are-visitor-number-X counters, I kind of liked StatCounter for its professional look and features. It was nowhere close to Google Analytics by the way. However, StatCounter offered the one thing I wanted: IP Address. (And later I realized I could have gone with GA. I had no real use for the raw IP Addresses)

And here we have the information on the abusive comment made last week: