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This is insane, and all due to this post.

I've been testing the alpha version of Measure Map for 4 days now. So far it's doing a pretty good job of displaying interesting statistics for this site.

It gives you statistics of number of vistors, how popular your posts are, search queries and the lot. The real strength in Measure Map is the way it presents the data though. Stylish, snappy and generally very well presented. Since this site gets a lot of traffic thats not directly related to my Wordpress install I still need a supliment like Awstats to gather the real amount of traffic I get, but as a quick glance view of how your blog is "performing" it does a pretty darn good job.

Ok, so I'm not quite ready for World Domination just yet afterall. Still Measuremaps way of showing where your traffic is coming from is pretty neat.

Conclusion? It's nice, flashy, fun and all good. I wish there was a way for it to analyze traffic thats not going through the Wordpress Index Page, Posts and Comments though, but since this is an online tool and not a log file analyzer it's very hard for it to do so. I love it as an addition to my Awstats though!

More screenshots are available on flickr

I've been running Squirrelmail for all my webmail requirements for a couple of years now, but I've become increasingly interested in trying other solutions. Until today, I hadn't been able to find one.

Thanks to Ryan Duff a worthy replacement has been found. RoundCube is now installed, and is looking like a permanent replacement. As Paul Stamatiou claims:

It’s only in the alpha stage of development, which explains the jagged installation procedures, but that doesn’t mean it can’t kick some major squirrels.

Paul has also been kind enough to provide some fairly comprehensive installation docs for RoundCube. Give it a go, it's well worth it!

I got an invite from Measuremap today, to test out the alpha version of their website statistics and traffic analyzer. Installation into the stock Wordpress Kubrik theme was pretty straight forward, with Measuremap providing screenshots of the whole installation process.

It's installed now, so I guess I'll have to wait until I get some real traffic before commenting on how it's working. Anyway, let me know if there are any problems after I installed it, but I'm suspecting that there won't be.

Word of warning, don't! I did an upgrade of my debian box, the very box you're connected to right now. Since I use eAccelerator to speed up my Gallery 2 install I had added the dotdeb sources to my /etc/apt/sources.list. So, it only took a few seconds of apt-get update && apt-get upgrade to leave my box in a world of hurt. I got the new PHP 4.4.1 version, which should have been a good thing considering the recent security issues found in >4.4.1. Well, the result was that both Wordpress and Gallery 2 stopped working entirely. Both applications were working fine before the upgrade, and as far as I can tell the problem must be with the dotdeb version of PHP 4.4.1 and not the actual applications I run. Other people I've talked with, that also run Wordpress and Gallery 2, did not have any problems with upgrading to 4.4.1 at all. The errors I saw was pretty strange though, Wordpress was unable to include any of the files it's supposed to include. This was the case, even if the include_path was set correctly in php.ini and the files it tried to include was also placed where they always has been. Gallery 2 showed a different error alltogether, it compained about not being able to redeclare a previously declared function. The strange thing is that the function is only declared once, so the error made no sense. In fact, none of the errors made any sense at all. I was forced to switch back to the official Debian Sarge sources, and install PHP from there instead. Phew, at least the site is back up again now.

 Added 4th. Nov: Seems like dotdeb isn't to blame after all. Numerous problems has been seen with PHP 4.4.1 and it looks like the actual culprit is a buggy version of PHP.