In the old days google was ‘just’ a very good search engine. Nowadays it is moving away from it’s initial goal to provide the best search experience. On an average query you will get ads, newsreports, videos, maps, related queries all making it harder to look at what you were actually trying to find. Using tampermonkey (a browser plugin to […]
Below a simple regex to valid if a variable is a valid list of numbers.
Analyzing our visitor’s behavior using (among others) Google Analytics (GA) is very important to us. We also use data from GA to provide to our customers. Hence it is very important that the data recorded in GA is accurate and complete. While analyzing the GA data we were missing data. We noticed some pageviews and events were not recorded. The […]
I was trying to find a therapist to help me understand the understand TMS or the mind-body syndrome better. On youtube, I found a guy named Dan Buglio. I really like him he had made a ton of video’s about TMS and he tries to help people deal with chronic pain. In his videos, he explains how he has overcome […]
I created a function that flattens different types of complex (nested) variables, like structures, arrays and queries. The function is based on the flattenStruct (https://cflib.org/udf/flattenStruct) UDF by Tom de Manincor. Below a simple example: https://cffiddle.org/app/file?filepath=080b6a18-4dd3-4358-b504-05397e085fc6/e6fbab74-7eb8-4b23-aa66-907ce1c7df78/ab358cc3-f8d8-4463-b124-790c509aef5c.cfm
Below a javascript, the function creates logical ranges from an array of integers. I use this script to create filters. The function accepts 4 parameters: array : an array of integers. E.g. [1,50,20,10,23,78] range : Integer. Range of the groups. E.g. 10 return groups of 10: 10,20,30 etc. 100 returns groups of 100: 100,200,300 etc. Any integer is possible divider […]
Large (eCommerce) websites are stacked with information, from product descriptions to articles or blog posts. Making them available for search engines like Google or Bing is one thing (called SEO btw), but what about internal search. Many websites offer a search bar however most of the time the results are just awful. How do large websites deal with this issue […]
Below a very simple script to get random values from an array without repetition. The basic idea is to randomly select an array item. Then publish that array item and remove it from the array. Repeat this process untill all array items are processed.
Well the title says it all. How to select random numbers/values from an array without using duplicate values.
For a node project, I wanted to replace the field separator in a CSV from a comma to a tab. I thought about different solutions and finally, I came up with this neat little regex. This regex can be used to replace a delimiter in a csv file but also other usage cases are possible. The script below replaces a […]
