Archive for April, 2009
One of the long lasting bugs/annoyances in SiteCatalyst is the somewhat crippled CSV format. Therefore hopes were high when reading about the enhancements to the CSV file format in the SiteCatalyst 14.5 release notes. Unfortunately the format hasn’t changed that much, basically it’s just broken in a different way. Lets have a look at a [...]
If you live outside USA, chances are, that you at some point may end up a bit confused about the way time zones are handled in SiteCatalyst. Some examples: If you are an administrator looking around in the Usage & Access logs, you’ll notice that all indication of time is labeled PST (Pacific Standard Time), [...]
I’ve been working with the Omniture Web Services API lately, it puzzles me why all the provided PHP sample code uses NuSOAP. PHP has a native SoapClient, as far as I can see there is no need to use the huge NuSOAP library. The only challenge is how to make the authentication with the Omniture [...]
Data Sources is one of the really powerful features in the Omniture product suite. With Data Sources you can do some amazingly cool stuff. Adam Greco has written a very nice introduction to Data Sources on the Omniture Blog. So, Omniture Data Sources is pure joy and happiness ? Well not entirely, while it is [...]
