29
May
webTRAM demo updated.
demo link:Â http://anthong.com/webTRAM/demo/
the demo has been upgraded significantly to inlude all of the latest features with some ways to demonstrate them.
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9
Jun
webTRAM update
webTRAM is well on it’s way to being complete and stable product. Since I first posted about it, I redesigned and rewrote it, ading features and flexibility and performance. The code and demo have ben updated. The full working demo is included in the code so it will be pretty easy to get started.
 I have a few things I’ll be fixing and adding to it before I leave it alone for a while but all constructive and civil comments are welcome.
4
Apr
Announcing webTRAM!
I am proud to announce my first Open Source product, webTRAM. I have never seen this set of features in an open source product before or else I would have used it and not developed my own. Now that I have developed it I will never stop improving it. I believe this product will be useful in many projects / jobs I work in the future and I hope it can be the same for others.
 This product is intended to record as much as possible from user actions, record it to a database, and display it in an analytical or visual format for decision making.
webTRAM will blow away the usefullness of web server logs and every product that relies on them exclusively.
 This was built with the need of tracking web2.0 / AJAX / DHTML sites. Web server logs won’t tell you how many times a user slid an element back and forth, or dragged a window, or used any of the other fancy javascripts you have in your site. WebTRAM will record these actions and many others, like when they right click to copy text, or double click to select a word.
 Yes, this is a little overboard. I have found that an abundance of information is better than a lack of it. This processing does not impact server resources on tracking and recording significantly. The only overhead that is noticed is in the storage space that builds up and running reports against all of that stored data. Both of these can be addressed by managing your data and filtering queries.
 What I have made available so far is very minimal. I am using it curently in a production environment, but I have a lot of work to do to make this a product people can just use without modifying. I will call that milestone 1.0.
After 1.0 I have a lot of significant features to add, just look at the todo list of the main page.
If you haven’t already found the page in the “Pages” list here it is:
