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Re: If We Hire the Web Developer You Referred, S$200 is Yours!

Derick Ng — Thu, 06 May 2010 04:17:01 -0000

Unfortunately the Ministry of Manpower in Singapore has a quota to the number of foreigners a company can employ and that is definitely not within our control.

Re: Tracking Country Specific Google Search Engines in Google Analytics using Filters

Derick Ng — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 04:35:36 -0000

Bing is stuck to using cookies for that, unfortunately. I am quite doubtful of any analytics software being able to display Bing's regional information unless it manages to exploit browsers' cookie handling. I.e. reading cookies from other websites. I do remember reading somewhere that it is possible with some hacks but this will definitely not be something that will remain "open" for a long time.

You are probably right that most analytics packages will fail without the referrer headers which brings me to worry more once browsers supports HTML5 and its rel="noreferrer" tag.

Re: Tracking Country Specific Google Search Engines in Google Analytics using Filters

Derick Ng — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 04:03:19 -0000

Great. Let me know if it works for you as well!

Edit: Just remembered having an issue with this. It only work in modifying the *first* visit that came directly from the search engine since I was relying on the "Referral" field. This meant that subsequent visits (e.g. from a page refresh after 30 minutes) will be tracked inaccurately. This will still work fine if the purpose is just to understand entrances. Otherwise, it may be better off using _addOrganic() method.

Re: How-to: iPhone Tethering via Bluetooth on a Mac

Derick Ng — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:23:53 -0000

Hi there, sorry for the late reply. Yes, feel free to repost with a link back to this page. Cheers. :)

Re: The Founding of ClickrMedia.com

Derick Ng — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:21 -0000

WordPress with our custom theme! :)

Re: CakePHP Losing or Missing Session?

Derick Ng — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:09:25 -0000

Sorry for the late reply. And from the thread you linked to, I suppose everything is working fine now. Cheers. ;)

Re: The Founding of ClickrMedia.com

Derick Ng — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:08:49 -0000

Hip hip hooray!

Re: CakePHP Losing or Missing Session?

Derick Ng — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:51:09 -0000

If you store sensitive information on your website, I suggest using high instead. The "low" setting has implications definitely though I believe most websites run that way.

So with the session ID regenerated, you will actually have to find workarounds for the problems with Ajax calls. E.g. you may want to make the Ajax call pass the new session ID via the response and modify the cookie on the client's computer so the next call can have the write session ID read by the server. That said, I have not try this before and am not sure if it can work. :)

Re: CakePHP Losing or Missing Session?

Derick Ng — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:08:56 -0000

Glad this old piece of information still works. :)

Cheers.

Re: How-to: iPhone Tethering via Bluetooth on a Mac

Derick Ng — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:10:34 -0000

Yes, I am using the iPhone 3G as well. It is basically a feature of the iPhone OS 3.0. However, if you don't see an Internet Tethering option under Settings > General > Network, you may have to search for your unofficial carrier settings (if available).

Re: iPhone OS 3.0 Bug with Group MMS (or rather SMS)

Derick Ng — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:06:12 -0000

But it is showing MMS instead of SMS on the compose message screen. My SIM card is as original. ;)

Re: Upgraded to WordPress 2.8

Derick Ng — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:34:35 -0000

Drupal 6.x notifies you when there are available updates but just lack the one-click solution. Perhaps it is a little complicated due to multi-site configurations but well, it is a nice to have.

I hope you can release that internal solution as a module when done! I will definitely be interested.

Re: SingNet External Proxy IP Woes

Derick Ng — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:10:55 -0000

The issue is that you may be able to log in, but when you click on a link after that, you may get logged out. For me, it was rather consistent and not some random pages. You may want to set the proxy then visit www.whatismyproxy.com to check if your proxy IP does not change even after several refreshes.

Re: SingNet External Proxy IP Woes

Derick Ng — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:21:18 -0000

Hmm, my problem was solved by setting the proxy. You can't login to the ADC at all or just a particular page? Perhaps I can try if I can access. :)

Re: Google Account Hijacked or Just a Bug?

Derick Ng — Fri, 22 May 2009 08:45:33 -0000

I have updated this post. According to Priyan, Google has confirmed the fix. Update with your comments if it is not resolved for you.

At least I have not been experiencing any issues with myself logging into others account nor others logging into my account for the past 1 day. Might be not checking "remember me" or just lucky that Google fixed it. :)

Re: Google Account Hijacked or Just a Bug?

Derick Ng — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:46:36 -0000

@Hasina: I have no idea until some Googler fix this! :p

@madden: I doubt it is browser-related. I'm on Firefox. I am just suspecting a proxy issue because most (if not all) users who experience the issues are on SingNet and SingNet has this proxy round robin thingy which puts you on a different proxy for separate requests. You may want to see http://derickng.com/posts/2... for more information. So the problem with that is that the proxy IP keeps changing and Google might have utilised this as part of the information to which they handle sessions? Just a wild guess.

Do you guys check the "Remember me on this computer" option when signing in? I am monitoring to see if this helps. This is yet another guess that Google sets some key via cookies which they use for the "Remember me on this computer" to the wrong recipient.

Re: Facebook Embraces OpenID; Login With Gmail

Derick Ng — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:03:49 -0000

I like the idea of OpenID but with recent security issues with Google Accounts (I am not sure if other service providers are secure enough), account privacy and security needs to be seriously considered!

Recently, I and many others (the group of victims have been communicating via email) have been having issues with Google Accounts. This guy sent me screenshots of all sorts of services I have access to when he got "logged on to" my Google Account. I can imagine if he knows which site I have been using via OpenID, things would be very much worse!

I have blogged about the issues on http://derickng.com/posts/1... and have gathered other users who are experiencing the same problems. We just can't get to someone in Google to handle or even post a response! I have tried twittering to @google and someone else tried sending to security@google.com but with no avail. Would really appreciate if someone here can blog about this issue or just hand it to you Googler friend. :)

In any case, I am stuck with the Google services which are IMO really terrific but this security breach is really making me think twice on using SaaS compared to hosting everything on your own server (provided it is well protected :p). Good luck to everyone whose Google accounts might have been peeked into.

Re: How to Read a Peashoot Report

Derick Ng — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:13:43 -0000

Have been reading on Peashoot and I must say this is something I might have build if you didn't! My gripes with bit.ly is that it does not have aggregate/campaign options so you don't actually get to see an overview statistics of X no. of urls. Peashoot is looking great especially when you seem to do well with the UI portion which I am a sucker for.

I think Google Analytics integration is a win-win. It allows the user to compare statistics for say an article/landing page to see how many percent of it comes from the social media campaigns. It might be good to either tag the Peashoot expanded URLs with campaign params or just make use of the API to grab data and integrate into Peashoot's reports.

I believe I have already subscribed to the notification list but perhaps I am too far down the list. Would love to be in the pre-launch group! Cheers.

Re: 10 Dirty Little Web Development Tricks › Yongfook | Web Producer and Consultant based in Tokyo

Derick Ng — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:15:31 -0000

This isn't about the points you brought up but woah, I really like the way your lifestream gets presented. Nice look and feel!

Re: The road less traveled: One button sign up (continued)

Derick Ng — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:33:13 -0000

I have always liked Vimeo's implementation. That top bar while you are not register prompts you to sign up easily and no activation required! It lets you in to explore your account until you wish to post some videos and there, it asked you to verify your email address. Not a one button sign up but I think it is good enough.