Manuel Strehl Boldewyn

Track deployments with Piwik's Annotation API

If you use analytics tools to monitor your website, a good metric for determining the effect of changes is the time of a deployment. Does the conversion rate really improve with the latest adjustments? Has the number of 404 errors decreased since we fixed that script?

Like other analytics products, Piwik allows you to annotate your data. Wouldn't it be great if all deployments were noted automatically? With the Annotation API it's actually quite simple.

In your deployment process, just add the following line to your script or post-receive hook and fill in the placeholders:

curl "http://YOUR_PIWIK_DOMAIN/?module=API&amp;\

Awesome PHP Libraries

A list of amazingly awesome PHP libraries that you should consider using (and some other shiny extras).

Composer/Packagist - A package and dependency manager.
Composer Installers - A multi framework Composer library installer.
Symfony2 - A framework comprised of individual components.
Zend Framework 2 - Another framework comprised of individual components.
Laravel 4 - A simple PHP framework.
Lithium - Another framework of components.

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	echo '<pre>';
	echo '<span style="color:blue">DOWNLOADING...</span>'.PHP_EOL;

	// Download file
	file_put_contents('wp.zip', file_get_contents('https://wordpress.org/latest.zip'));

	$zip = new ZipArchive();
	$res = $zip->open('wp.zip');
	if ($res === TRUE) {

	<?php

	$local_file = 'file_path'; //path to a local file on your server
	$post_fields = array(
	'name' => 'value',
	);
	$boundary = wp_generate_password( 24 );
	$headers = array(
	'content-type' => 'multipart/form-data; boundary=' . $boundary,
	);

	#!/bin/bash

	# Start this scipt above the /piwik directory.
	# We assume that the webserver runs under www-data.

	# download & verify
	wget -nv "http://builds.piwik.org/piwik.zip" \|\| exit 1
	wget -nv "http://builds.piwik.org/piwik.zip.asc" \|\| exit 2
	gpg --verify piwik.zip.asc \|\| exit 3

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	# MIT © Sindre Sorhus - sindresorhus.com

	# git hook to run a command after `git pull` if a specified file was changed
	# Run `chmod +x post-merge` to make it executable then put it into `.git/hooks/`.

	changed_files="$(git diff-tree -r --name-only --no-commit-id ORIG_HEAD HEAD)"

	check_run() {
	echo "$changed_files" \| grep --quiet "$1" && eval "$2"

	var tessel = require('tessel');
	var ambientlib = require('ambient-attx4');
	var ambient = ambientlib.use(tessel.port['A']);

	var rm = 40;

	ambient.on('ready', function () {
	// Get points of light and sound data.
	var int = setInterval( function () {
	ambient.getLightLevel( function(err, ldata) {

	javascript:
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	(function(){
	var x='http://codepoints.net/U+'+(function(r){
	var n=r.startContainer,
	p=r.startOffset,
	u=(n.nodeType==3)?n.nodeValue.substr(p,2):n.childNodes[p].textContent.substr(0,2),
	v=u.charCodeAt(0);
	return 0xD800<=v&&v<=0xDB7F?((v&0x3FF)<<10\|u.charCodeAt(1)&0x3FF)+0x10000:v;
	})(getSelection().getRangeAt(0)).toString(16);

	if (!document.querySelectorAll) {
	document.querySelectorAll = function(selector) {
	var doc = document,
	head = doc.documentElement.firstChild,
	styleTag = doc.createElement('STYLE');
	head.appendChild(styleTag);
	doc.__qsaels = [];

	styleTag.styleSheet.cssText = selector + "{x:expression(document.__qsaels.push(this))}";
	window.scrollBy(0, 0);