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Recent Posts
Amazon S3 bucket limit
So, today I learned that Amazon S3 limits the amount of buckets you are allowed to have at any one time. This was a HUGE pain in the ass for me, as I just rewrote my S3 caching libraries to separate my caching into daily buckets. The idea I had was ...
Survey Says: Ipsos Reid presentation to BC Hydro on Social Network Marketing
I wanted to share some interesting tid-bits with you all from a recent Ipsos Reid presentation (June 18th) on Social Network Marketing. This presentation was made to BC Hydro, the major Power authority in British Columbia (that’s in Canada, dum...
Survey Says: Bing Converts Cheaper than Competitors
My good friends over at The Search Agency sent me some interesting data yesterday. Frank Lee, Senior VP of Client Services, and his team found that their paid search clients are seeing dramatically improved results on Bing compared to Live Search. ...
Rails: Mysql::Error: Lost connection
One of my in development projects was getting triggering a ton of “Mysql::Error: Lost connection” errors recently, and I couldn’t figure out the root cause of it. There are many of different reasons why this error can occur, and in ...
Updated Google Analytics Keyword Extractor
OK, I’ll admit, my last post was downright shameful… The code was poorly presented, and poorly formatted. It wasn’t at ALL my normal caliber of work, so I went ahead and rewrote the concept into a tighter little wrapper. I am usin...
Using the Google Analytics API with Ruby, Open-Uri & Hpricot
You may or may not have heard that Google has finally opened up their Analytics API to the public. You can read Googles official statement here. I thought I’d show you all a quick crash introduction on how you can access the API using Ruby. The...

