Who You Calling A Jesse?

It looks like for the first time since I have been watching logs on the home page here at Waterloo (five years), IE is just below 70% (of that 61% are IE 7, 39% IE 6) usage. Firefox is at 25.25% and Safari is 3% with Mozilla at 1.63%. Another interesting thing on operating systems, the week the students arrived (and traffic went up) the Mac OS went from just under 5% to 6.36% of users. Normally it is around 5% with the labs and such so I wonder if more students have Macs? Of Windows users 84.77% are XP, 12.79% Vista.

Screen resolution is pretty much as it has been for a while. 800×600 is 2.13% and the rest are above that. 1024×768 is at 37.27% and 1280×800 (wide screen laptops?) are at 27.50%. Interestingly Flash versions are all pretty much at 9.0 or varients. Version 8 is just under 4% and 7 and below combine to 2.4%.

This is from 1.6 million visits according to Google Analytics.

Just a short note and a major annoyance with Contribute Publishing Server that had me in a near swearing fit last night. If you are using CPS with LDAP and you change your email address, CPS no longer knows who you are. You can still connect to CPS but it manages the sites according to the email address not the userid in front of the @. Something to be mindful of on a large scale CPS deployment if staff email changes.

After switching jobs my LDAP/ADS stored email goes to a different server on campus. My main @uwaterloo.ca still works but it goes to a different local server which is in my LDAP/ADS entry. That local server is what CPS is hooked on. So what happens is I load Contribute, it connects to CPS, but I have no sites. I have no idea why either, no error, no nothing.

I had to switch my ADS info back to the old server (that I still have access to) so all my @uwaterloo email goes there while I use Contribute. Then switch it back again. As of now I can’t figure out how to change sites gracefully.

%#$*@ that is annoying. This could be documented elsewhere but for my sake I am mentioning it here.

It has been 23 days since my last update! Wow does time fly. Figure I should update what has been going on in my little corner of the campus and of course mention for those that care, I finally got my blog up an running with Simplelog. Still monkeying around with the server settings and the template (it is the default template at the moment) but you can subscribe to that feed for things.

So the new job. Working with nine co-ops in a new space with a new job is pretty challenging. The co-ops are great, it is the change in all things but my main employer that is slowing me down a bit. That and the teething eight month old that sleeps in the nursery attached to my bedroom. There should be some really good things to post in the coming weeks so it should be interesting. As an added bonus I am now getting my head around MS Studio and Expression stuff—in a few months I will know with confidence which is better, Dreamweaver or Expression Web. Going into it I think it will be tie because you would use them in different situations. But anyway…

The other part of my spare time has been pulling together BarCampWaterloo5 for September 29th (a Saturday) from 11am-5pm in the Accelerator Centre. Yes Impact is the same day. The difference with BarCampWaterloo is that you can participate, the agenda is set by those in attendance, the goal is to share, learn, have fun, and you don’t need a suit. Oh, and its free.

After BarCampWaterloo is a StartupCampWaterloo on October 23rd at 6pm. This is going to be a little more like DemoCamp but focused on starting your own thing. The plans are still coming together for that one but I hope to have it all sorted out by BarCampWaterloo.

Not much else to report.

I have finally wrangled Simplelog into submission and have the new blog ready to go. I have decided to stop blogging at my old spot and start talking about the same topics here. What are those topics? Web technology and all the fun stuff that I come across in a day.

Enough for an intro post. Once I get the theme/design settled I will get my RSS feed sorted out and then it should be blogging as usual.