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Track deployments with Piwik's Annotation API

If you use analytics tools to monitor your website, a good metric for determining the effect of changes is the time of a deployment. Does the conversion rate really improve with the latest adjustments? Has the number of 404 errors decreased since we fixed that script?

Like other analytics products, Piwik allows you to annotate your data. Wouldn't it be great if all deployments were noted automatically? With the Annotation API it's actually quite simple.

In your deployment process, just add the following line to your script or post-receive hook and fill in the placeholders:

curl "http://YOUR_PIWIK_DOMAIN/?module=API&\

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The set-up: place both files in a directory, add ZeroClipboard 1.2.3 and Require.JS so that they're found.

Open testcase.html and watch console output: Sometimes the text is copied, sometimes not:

22:16:08.959 "Copied text to clipboard: " testcase.js:5
22:16:10.141 "Copied text to clipboard: a" testcase.js:5
22:16:11.544 "Copied text to clipboard: a" testcase.js:5
22:16:12.057 "Copied text to clipboard: " testcase.js:5
22:16:12.816 "Copied text to clipboard: a" testcase.js:5

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if (!document.querySelectorAll) {
    document.querySelectorAll = function(selector) {
        var doc = document,
            head = doc.documentElement.firstChild,
            styleTag = doc.createElement('STYLE');
        head.appendChild(styleTag);
        doc.__qsaels = [];

        styleTag.styleSheet.cssText = selector + "{x:expression(document.__qsaels.push(this))}";
        window.scrollBy(0, 0);

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/**
 * format a number to look like "12.300 Mio." (german format)
 *
 * Spec:
 * * numbers equal or larger than 100000 are suffixed with "Mio.".
 * * three significant digits
 * * dots after each 3 consecutive digits
 *
 * Why not use .toPrecision() alone? Because it might end up in
 * "scientific notation" (1.23e9). Yeah, that makes sence, JS!

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#!/bin/bash

LOGFOLDER=/var/log/apache2
FIELD=7
HTTP_CODE=404
LOG_BASENAME=access.log

cd "$LOGFOLDER"

# print all zipped logfiles (suppressing errors)

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#!/bin/bash
#
# Search Makefiles recursively and run make(1) there, if one is found
#

DEPTH=$(pwd | tr -c -d / | wc -c)
MOD=.

while [[ $DEPTH > 0 ]]
do

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Awesome PHP Libraries

A list of amazingly awesome PHP libraries that you should consider using (and some other shiny extras).

• Composer/Packagist - A package and dependency manager.
• Composer Installers - A multi framework Composer library installer.
• Symfony2 - A framework comprised of individual components.
• Zend Framework 2 - Another framework comprised of individual components.
• Laravel 4 - A simple PHP framework.
• Lithium - Another framework of components.

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#!/bin/bash

function _usage() {
    cat <<USAGE
usage: $(basename $0) PATTERN [FILES]

Print the HTML that matches the CSS selector PATTERN.
USAGE
}

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#!/bin/sh

SOURCE=$1
MASK=$2
TARGET=$3

convert "$SOURCE" "$MASK" -compose CopyOpacity -composite "$TARGET"

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#!/bin/bash

MDFILE=$1

x-www-browser $(markdown "$MDFILE" | base64 -w0 | \
                cat <(echo -n "data:text/html;charset=UTF-8;base64,") -)