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The software we are designing allows students to register and participate in different training courses.
When the user logs into the system they get a list of courses they have registered for. They click on the course and then they are redirected to the specific course content.
My question is, what is the best practice upon login if the student is only currently registered for a single course?
Option 1: Just list the single course, but still require the user to click on it before redirecting. Same behavior as if there were multiple courses to select?
Option 2: Upon login, immediately re-direct the user to the specific course content. Save them from having to do the extra click of selecting the course.
Option 3: Open to suggestions...
EDIT: There are no other options available on this page. They register/pay for the courses elsewhere.
Are there any other options on the course selection page other than selecting a course (like registering for another course)? If not, then take them directly to their single course (Option 2). If there are other options, take them to the list and require them to select their course (Option 1).
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I store the timezone in the database upon login determined by the users IP address. This works great. The problem is:
Let's say someone logs in with remember me on, and they are in America/Los_Angeles. But then they happen to travel to somewhere else and they're still logged in... The timezone won't update unless they log out and back in
So my question is... What would be best?
Option A: Each request, update timezone in database
Option B: Ask for Timezone on registration (autofill based on IP), and then let the user change their timezone in user settings
Option C: check timezone with every request and if it doesn't match, show a message asking if they want to update their timezone to their current one
The question seems to be concerned more with UserExperience, rather than Laravel implementation.
All the options you mentioned are valid.
Normally for things like this you'd want to consult your users with it, it makes for a better experience, as well as respects the user's right to choose.
I'd recommend option B or C, since they give the user the option. (Useful for cases where someone is using VPN for example, where the timezone can change frequently, but the user wants to work on his own prefered timezone).
But remember, this is more of a preference answer rather than a standard answer.
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Though I am 52, and active with computers since 1986 (those were more oversized calculators, to be correct), i have no idea what is meant with Form Data.
I know, I know, this is insane, but i just never came across this before.
Might be, I DO know it, but by a different name, maybe Dutch.
Still I am quite stuck, to be quite honest.
Tried to google it, got heaps on information as to how to clear it, restore it, save it, unsave it, ... , but nowhere an in-depth explanation of what is meant with form Data.
Now, I am building a Batch File, for speed-cleaning of certain data, when my Firefox starts to get slow ... .
Came across the "erase Form Data" command, but nae clue as to what Form Data is.
Thank you.
Ben
That rundll32 command only applies to Internet Explorer and will not touch Firefox.
Anyway, form data is data entered into html forms like your name, address and telephone etc. These form fields are edit boxes, check/radio buttons and drop-down selectors.
Firefox has its own setting to clear form data when you close the browser. Form data is very low on the list of what slows down your browser...
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I would like to have the data in my site individually. For example: visitant 1 visited page 1, page 2, page 3, at time x,y,z.
How can i get this data in analytics?
You cannot see data for individual visitors in GA (and trying to do so would violate Googles Terms of Service).
You can redirect the tracking calls to your own server and write a script to parse for visitor data, see me answer here:
What would database-schema/database-design look like for google analytics?
(Those methods served for compatibility with the Urchin analytics software - since support for Urchin was dropped it might be that those method will be dropped at some point in the future).
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Are there any well known algorithms for figuring out the "Recommended Items" that websites often use? On a new project, I'm currently tracking things they've viewed, purchased, searched on, favourited, etc. I am curious what the best way would be to utilize all of this information to intelligently give meaningful recommendations.
I recommend you two books:
Programming Collective Intelligence
Toby Segaran (ISBN: 978-0-596-52932-1)
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596529321.do
In this book, "Chapter 2. Making Recommendations" covers:
Collaborative Filtering
Collecting Preferences
Finding Similar Users
Recommending Items
etc..
Collective Intelligence in Action
Satnam Alag (ISBN: 1933988312)
http://www.manning.com/alag/
In this book, "Capter 12. Building a recommendation engine" covers:
Recommendation engine fundamentals
Content-based analysis
Collaborative filtering
I hope it helps you.
I thing easyrec would be a good starting point for you to track such user interactions.YOu just need to include some javascript code to your page and it does the rest.
http://easyrec.org/recommendation-engine
You can also check the other recommendation engines listed here
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4469281/recommendation-engine#
but problem is most of these frameworks target user rating predicting over collaborative filtering.
There are mechanisms like 'people who bought this items also bought'.
Category tops: if someone is viewing 'computers/storage devices', show the top selling products in that category.
Previous searches: use the (non offensive) items that the user has browsed in previous sessions. (there is a way to track via cookie for non logged in users)
Promoted items: show items that are promoted and make big business benefit. However, do not get swayed away by this, show one or two promoted items to keep viewers interest.
There are recommendation engines, but as a developer business needs drives the recommendation creation. So, many times I find it's better to hack some SQL scripts to get them.
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So i have a number of methods i use to minimise load time when restoring a Windows Phone 7 application when it has been tombstoned and completely closed, and a user hits the back button or (in mango) navigates to your app from the multi-tasking switcher.
What methods do you use to make sure that the user doesn't see the "Resuming..." text for a second or two?
With Mango your application will be kept in memory until the device is running low in memory. So when the user comes back you can test it in the Application_Activated method:
if (!e.IsApplicationInstancePreserved)
{ //here your code to initilize database etc.
}else{
// nothing to do !
}
You should read this page on the Execution model of Mango: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff817008(v=VS.92).aspx
In any case in the application_desactived method you should save all the data because you are not sure to be kept in memory until the user comes back.
For the resuming message (and it's also valid for the startup), you should be fast as you can to display the first page to your user. Even if this first page does the heavy work (query a local database, a remote service etc...). You give to the user the impression that your application is doing something and not stuck in the splash screen.