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Piwik - Liberating Web Analytics

A few weeks ago, I wanted to build a little analytics tool. The idea was to send anonym data , to improve the performace of a magento extension (only with the permission of the shopowner). A little bit like mozilla or PhpStorm asks you after the install. But before building a static and very special webservice only for my interests, I decided to search for a tool like this. A tool that can collect requests. And I found Piwiki. A free Web Analytics Software. All I needed was a mysql database and php. I installed it after 5 minutes and was ready to check every request on my blog. I can see every visitor and can see the main problems of my website. All these datas are hosted on my server. There was also a app for my smartphone. There are many plugins for magento, wordpress and so on. I'm that happy with this tool, that I wanted to write a little post about it.

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Awesome Open Source Projects

On my Wordpress blog I had a page for donations. It didn't happend that often, but when somebody wanted to spend some money for my small open source projects I always send a link to a page like this. A list of awesome software projects that I use every day. All these projects need some money or help. The donation page doesn't exist anymore, so I have created this small post that will be updated from time to time.

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