Category Archives: Web Development

Delete domain in Google Analytics howto – Remove obsolete website from Analytics

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If you are like me your Google Analytics might have quite a few websites in it which you don’t use anymore or which for example are websites of old clients or friends you helped with. You might want to clean this up.

Now within Google Analytics you can’t ‘just’ select a few and delete them (don’t know why not), you have to take a few steps to delete the accounts, but when done, you will have a nice clean Google Analytics.

I’ve just cleaned up my Google Analytics and thought I’d share the process with you so you will know how easy it really is. I did this on my Google+ page originally but because people seemed to like it and not everybody seemed to know how it should be done I thought I’d share it here as well.

Steps to remove a website (profile) from Google Analytics

 

Step 1: Go to the Admin tab in Google Analytics

Step 2: Select the domain and the property (website), then click ‘view settings’ in the 3rd column

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Step 3: Scroll down the page and click ‘Delete view’

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Step 4: Confirm the deletion

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You will receive a confirmation of the deletion in your e-mail.
That’s all it should not show up more in your google analytics account.

Enjoy 🙂

Web Wedevelopment basics – What is REST (Representational state transfer) and why it is important to programming?

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Representational State Transfer (REST) has gained widespread acceptance across the Web as a simpler alternative to SOAP and WSDL based Web services. In layman’s terms, REST is an architecture style or design pattern used as a set of guidelines for creating web services which allow anything connected to a network (web servers, private intranets, smartphones, fitness bands, banking systems, traffic cameras, televisions etc.) to communicate with one another via a shared common common communications protocols known as HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The same HTTP Verbs (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE etc.) used by web browsers to retrieve and display web pages, audio/video files, images etc. from remote servers and post data back to them when performing actions like filling out and submitting forms are used by all of the aforementioned devices/services to communicate with one another.

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By leveraging and repurposing a lightweight and universal protocol like HTTP, software engineers and system architects are given a set of guidelines to use when designing RESTful web services for both new and existing products and services that contribute to what has become collectively known as the Internet of Things (IoT).

A simple example of designing a web service for managing employee data using an OData REST implementation might involve several methods, each corresponding to one of the HTTP verbs. A method like “Employees/GetEmployees” would be mapped to the GET verb (or “Employees/GetEmployee/12345” in the case of retrieving details for a single specific employee), handling all requests submitted to the web service, “Employees/AddEmployee” would be mapped to the POST verb, “Employees/UpdateEmployee” would be mapped to PUT and “Employees/DeleteEmployee” would be mapped to the DELETE verb. If the service were also exposing an interface to allow remote clients to manage consumer products the API would follow a similar naming convention but obviously specific to consumer products (i.e. Products/GetProducts, Products/AddProduct etc.). Any remote client that has access and is authorized to use any of these methods would be able to execute them provided that the remote client is capable of sending and receiving data using the HTTP protocol.

Technically speaking, it is an abstraction of the architecture of the World Wide Web (WWW); more precisely, REST is an architectural style consisting of a coordinated set of architectural constraints applied to components, connectors, and data elements, within a distributedhypermedia system. REST ignores the details of component implementation and protocol syntax in order to focus on the roles of components, the constraints upon their interaction with other components, and their interpretation of significant data elements.

The REST architectural style is also applied to the development of web services. One can characterize web services as “RESTful” if they conform to the constraints described in the architectural constraints section. RESTful web services are assumed to return data in XML and/or JSON format, the latter of which has been gaining more and more support and seems to be the data format of choice for many of the newer REST implementations.

Source of info: Wikipedia