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(Those not interested in my rambling exposition but just want the tips should skip on down to here)

Tomorrow can't possibly come quickly enough.

I don't mean that in some lofty, philosophical way. I mean quite literally that tomorrow, June 19th can't possibly come quickly enough. I've been counting down many, many days until the newest iteration of the iPhone is released. I can already hear the eyes rolling, because it seems half of the Internet has been also looking forward to it (and the other half seems hell-bent on telling us why we're stupid, but that's another post altogether). Bear with me, though, and I'll explain why.

Today, we’re going to talk how to configure Google Analytics to work with your multilingual website. Depending on your needs, you may find it sufficient to simply register multiple separate websites with GA and use a different tracking code for each, but then you lose the ability to easily compare stats side-wide, or compare to see if your visitors in English are viewing the same pages as your Dutch visitors.
The configurations I’ll be going over today all work from the same principle: use one tracking code to gather all of your traffic site-wide, and then create a separate profile under that same tracking code for each language.

I personally spend a lot my development time (at least for websites) using Drupal, and I know that the team at Coldfront Labs do as well. Over the past year or two I’ve amassed a list of features that seem to be consistently useful from project to project, but aren’t actually present in Drupal / existing modules.

There are too many things to do in this world.
 
I don’t mean this in a complaining, whiny manner but rather as a simple statement of fact.  There are more things to do on this planet than I will have time to do, and as a result I’ve noticed a personal trend that seems to be developing.
 

This past week, the friendly folks over at Good Ol’ Games announced that they were bringing some old Apogee games into the fold, starting with the seminal classic Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition for a paltry $5.99. If, at this point, you’re still reading this, it had better be because you’ve finished downloading. Otherwise, go and pick up

I am not a visual artist.

I used to sketch throughout elementary school and high-school, but that skill got lost in the switch from high-school to university (along with regular sleeping habits, that youthful naiveté, and most of my sobriety). Since then, I’ve dabbled in Photoshop on an occasional basis. Never often enough to become an expert with the software, but as regularly as time would permit. Roughly a year ago, I stumbled across an outstanding Photoshop tutorial site PSDTuts, which has fully re-ignited my artistic torch. After a good year of hemming and hawing, I finally pulled the trigger and purchased one of these at FutureShop with some Christmas money a few weeks ago.

I've been wanting some sort of solution for sharing files between multiple PCs forever, and I'm finally happy to see something that does it well.

DropBox is a free little web-app that provides 2gb of data-storage in the cloud for any kind of file. Files are under version-control, which is handy for those mission-critical work documents or, more commonly, code that I want to work on in various locations.