xSort free card sorting tool for Mac

xSort for Mac is a great free card sorting application useful for IA exercises. It allows you to graphically sort and group labeled boxes. Experiments are timed and then aggregated into a nice category-tree listing.

A good tool.

User Click Heat Map for PHP

I just installed this ClickHeat application on my server. It’s a simple user click heat map tool to see where visitors are clicking on your site. Visually, it’s easier to read than the Google Analytics heatmap.

This is a poor man’s Crazy Egg. There are other free heatmap tools that use a freemium model (Free to use, Premium versions are more robust).

Deals.WaitingFor.Me

Getting Django running on nginx

I’m in the process of rolling out a little pet project using Django. This little gem proved indispensable in helping me to get Django to run on nginx.

http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/ServerArrangements#nginx

Surprisingly I cut & paste the config into my server. With only a few obvious but minor changes the Django instance started working fine.

Start Server for Debugging


python manage.py runfcgi method=threaded host=127.0.0.1 port=8000 daemonize=false

Start Server for semi-production


python manage.py runfcgi method=threaded host=127.0.0.1 port=8000