292. Tapping Into the Untapped User Experience: Combining User Analytics and Feedback In One Essential Tool
Updated on: 2015-06-24
Posted on: 2015-06-24
With the speed at which technology is changing and advancing, it is disappointing that as developers and designers we still can’t get the big picture of our site’s user experience.
On the one hand, there are many great Web analytics tools out there today that measure user behavior. There are also many popular customer feedback tools that help to understand the voice of the customer. But fusing these two disparate pieces of information into one concise tool is a largely untapped area in our industry.
As a developer, more tools means more headaches and more overhead. As a designer, you need several key data points to create better sites and solutions around your users, but this data can be hard to find and take action on when you need to use a handful of independent tools and draw insights from them yourself.
Read this article to learn about a powerful new approach to understanding the whole user experience and how to improve it with Hotjar, an all-in-one analytics and feedback tool.
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On the one hand, there are many great Web analytics tools out there today that measure user behavior. There are also many popular customer feedback tools that help to understand the voice of the customer. But fusing these two disparate pieces of information into one concise tool is a largely untapped area in our industry.
As a developer, more tools means more headaches and more overhead. As a designer, you need several key data points to create better sites and solutions around your users, but this data can be hard to find and take action on when you need to use a handful of independent tools and draw insights from them yourself.
Read this article to learn about a powerful new approach to understanding the whole user experience and how to improve it with Hotjar, an all-in-one analytics and feedback tool.
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Updated on: 2015-06-23
Posted on: 2015-06-22
Since last year the PHP Classes site has a section for users to request recommendations for packages that address their specific needs.
The recommendations section has been growing a lot lately but until recently authors could not recommend packages that were not approved in the site. The site just implemented a new feature to overcome this limitation.
Read this article to learn how this feature works and how can authors quickly submit packages that address the users' needs and eventually be nominated for the innovation award faster without waiting for their turn in the approval queue that sometimes gets too long.
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The recommendations section has been growing a lot lately but until recently authors could not recommend packages that were not approved in the site. The site just implemented a new feature to overcome this limitation.
Read this article to learn how this feature works and how can authors quickly submit packages that address the users' needs and eventually be nominated for the innovation award faster without waiting for their turn in the approval queue that sometimes gets too long.
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Updated on: 2015-06-18
Posted on: 2015-06-18
LXC is a lightweight virtualization technology that runs on top of Linux to create application testing environments without having to install full virtual machines.
Read this article to learn how to setup LXC to test your PHP applications on your development environment without waste of resources of your machine and with great control of the software you use to test your PHP software with all other software packages and tools you need just like if you were running them on your production enviroment.
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Read this article to learn how to setup LXC to test your PHP applications on your development environment without waste of resources of your machine and with great control of the software you use to test your PHP software with all other software packages and tools you need just like if you were running them on your production enviroment.
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Updated on: 2015-06-16
Posted on: 2015-06-16
With the latest experiments with the Feedback Directed Optimization patch, it is possible that PHP 7 will be event 10% faster than the implementation with other optimizations already implemented for PHP 7.0.
That was one the topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 60 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented on proposals for future PHP versions like having a numeric type hint, options for preloaded scripts, making Libsodium a core extension for applications that need cryptography, the updated roadmap for PHP 7.0.0 and creating a new branch for PHP 7.1 development.
They also talked about the latest PHP tutorial articles and book reviews published lately on the site.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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That was one the topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 60 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented on proposals for future PHP versions like having a numeric type hint, options for preloaded scripts, making Libsodium a core extension for applications that need cryptography, the updated roadmap for PHP 7.0.0 and creating a new branch for PHP 7.1 development.
They also talked about the latest PHP tutorial articles and book reviews published lately on the site.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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Updated on: 2015-06-15
Posted on: 2015-06-15
Blog: PHP Hulu Video package blog
Package: PHP Hulu Video
Hulu has long been the standout of the major streaming video providers to not provide a public API. They do, however, provide a method to embed video and a data set of their content in XML format which is constantly updated.
The PHP Hulu Video class takes advantage of these public resources to bring everything together into a pseudo-API for developers, bloggers, etc..
Read this article to learn how to explore what Hulu provides and techniques to make their video available on external Web sites just like a real API.
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The PHP Hulu Video class takes advantage of these public resources to bring everything together into a pseudo-API for developers, bloggers, etc..
Read this article to learn how to explore what Hulu provides and techniques to make their video available on external Web sites just like a real API.
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Updated on: 2015-07-15
Posted on: 2015-06-10
This is the June edition of the Innovation Award podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the outstanding features of all the past month nominees and winners PHP and JavaScript packages, the prizes that the authors earned, starting with the nominees from the month of March 2015.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative.
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Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative.
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Updated on: 2015-06-09
Posted on: 2015-06-09
Nowadays it is common to find embedded hardware devices, based on Raspberry Pi for instance, that are accessible via a network, run Linux and come with Apache and PHP installed on the device.
Read this article to learn how you can use PHP on those devices to connect to sensors by the means sensor and actuator executable programs.
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Read this article to learn how you can use PHP on those devices to connect to sensors by the means sensor and actuator executable programs.
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Updated on: 2017-07-10
Posted on: 2015-06-04
Leaflet is a great JavaScript library that we can use build a Google Maps alternative with PHP and MySQL as we have seen in a previous article.
Read this article to learn how to improve your Leaflet map application by implementing a search engine on your maps pages using AJAX requests.
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Read this article to learn how to improve your Leaflet map application by implementing a search engine on your maps pages using AJAX requests.
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Updated on: 2016-10-24
Posted on: 2015-06-01
When you are ready to share your code for other class developers to use, you will need to control how that code is used and provide some way to enable updates.
Read this tutorial to learn how to use class abstraction with closely related objects to provide greater control over your PHP code, so it facilitates future updates.
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Read this tutorial to learn how to use class abstraction with closely related objects to provide greater control over your PHP code, so it facilitates future updates.
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Updated on: 2017-07-10
Posted on: 2015-05-27
Leaflet is a JavaScript library that became popular for creating mobile friendly Web maps applications. It does not depend on Google, so you do not need to pay fees as you may need to when you use Google Maps.
Read this tutorial to learn how to use Leaflet library with PHP and MySQL to create an alternative to Google Maps and implement it on your site.
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Read this tutorial to learn how to use Leaflet library with PHP and MySQL to create an alternative to Google Maps and implement it on your site.
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