T=Machine

Just wanted to say: I detest “cron” more than mere words have the power to convey. I suspect there aren’t many other pieces of fundamental software implemented in so few lines of code that over so many years have caused so much harm and frustration to so many people and systems (surprisingly, cron has often been the point of error in weird failures of clusters of servers I’ve dealt with - e.g. when the backups mysteriously stop working, or an app crashes and won’t restart, etc)
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This is a quick review of free tools for web analytics / stats-analysis / weblog analysis. I’ll follow up with some more detailed posts about non-web tracking. Follow-up posts will extend this into game development, but this post is purely about web stuff.
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Filed under : databases, dev-process, games design, massively multiplayer, server admin, web 2.0

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Well, obviously, it ain’t possible, but sometimes you can do it using Google…
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