Month: June 2011

Day in brief – 2011-06-15

  • GitHub: mamchenkov commented on pull request 120 on cakephp/cakephp http://bit.ly/lU3myx #
  • GitHub: mamchenkov commented on pull request 120 on cakephp/cakephp http://bit.ly/j9XYfi #
  • GitHub: mamchenkov pushed to 2.0 at mamchenkov/cakephp http://bit.ly/jocWgp #
  • I'm at Logos School of English Education (33-35 Yialousa St, Limassol) http://4sq.com/jM3O0k #
  • GitHub: mamchenkov commented on pull request 120 on cakephp/cakephp http://bit.ly/jN9qNe #
  • New note : Peter's blog: It's official: developers get better with age. And scarcer. http://bit.ly/jy1cWf #
  • @gcmougias That depends on when the 40+ got into programming. If he joined at 39, then yes. Otherwise – no. #
  • GitHub: mamchenkov pushed to 2.0 at mamchenkov/cakephp http://bit.ly/mgo9Gr #
  • Earthquake in Limassol! #
  • My personal laziness provides me with a great power of persuasion. #
  • @pavlatom Yup. It was a short and weak one. But several people felt it. #
  • @geogaga Easy :) It was a short and weak one. Probably around 3 points or so on the Richter scale. #
  • Shared: Paphos International Rally http://bit.ly/ixwoZU #
  • Moon eclipse is happening right now. Watch! #
  • Somebody switched off the moon #
  • The moon is totally gone as seen from Cyprus. Very hard to find the dark circle in the black sky. #

Day in brief – 2011-06-14

Social networks and referrer URLs

Pretty much every social network out there is building a custom front page for each user.  Such front pages are customized with preferences and previous activity of the user.  This is an excellent functionality.  But one thing such approach often breaks is a referral URL.  Have a look at something I saw in my statistics today morning (click for larger version).

This tells me that someone somewhere on Facebook linked to one of my posts.  I know which post was linked to.  But I have no way to figure out where exactly on Facebook the link is.  I’d like to do so very much – I’m interested to see the discussion and context in which my post came up.  I’ve tried Googling for the post, but that didn’t help.  I examined logs of my web server and that didn’t help either.  I think that’s broken.

And just to be clear, this problem is not specific to Facebook.  I’ve had similar issues with Twitter and other social networks.  Some of them make the discovery job easier than others.  But all of them don’t make the source obvious.  And I think they should.