The most frustrating situation in tech is when you start working on something new, and it won't work. You don't understand what is going on, because your knowledge, quite frankly, isn't there yet, and all the pages you find online give you different, conflicting advice. 'Use the official plugin,' one says, and it shows how … Continue reading Troubleshooting Launch (for beginners)
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Edge Nodes, Data Centres & other Updates
(aka: the URL is ok like that) In the context of ageing of technical information, obsolete blog articles, and "updating for success"[tm], this is a follow up to the 2013 article Data Centres, which really is out of date by now. It extends and partly supersedes other articles, such as Debugging - the URL, or … Continue reading Edge Nodes, Data Centres & other Updates
Adobe Experience Platform Mobile SDKs – Recap
This article is part of the Adobe Experience Platform Mobile SDKs mini-series. It is about the series as such. You can find the overview here. I don't think I have ever done anything like the AEP Mobile SDKs mini-series before. In total, I posted 10 articles, including this one, and I did it with a … Continue reading Adobe Experience Platform Mobile SDKs – Recap
Adobe Experience Platform Mobile SDKs – Mapping Data for Analytics
This article is part of the Adobe Experience Platform Mobile SDKs mini-series. It is about mapping data into Analytics. You can find the overview here. Mapping data for Analytics In the article about adding Analytics to your app, I mentioned lifecycle metrics, as well as explicit tracking of Views/Activities and user actions. I put a … Continue reading Adobe Experience Platform Mobile SDKs – Mapping Data for Analytics
Adobe Experience Platform Mobile SDKs – Debugging
This article is part of the Adobe Experience Platform Mobile SDKs mini-series. It is about debugging your app. You can find the overview here. Today, we'll talk about an aspect of development that, on mobile apps, is a royal pain, at least compared to the browser-based and extension-supported debugging we do when we deploy on … Continue reading Adobe Experience Platform Mobile SDKs – Debugging
Quick tip – Launch buildDate and Live Expressions
When you build something in Launch, but browser says no... This happens to me every now and again: I make some changes in Launch. I build a new Library. I load my page and check ... what? why? Shouldn't it...? Sometimes, I am too impatient. Sometimes, Launch needs a little bit more time to compile. … Continue reading Quick tip – Launch buildDate and Live Expressions
Quick tip – non-minified Launch code is easier to debug
Debugging and troubleshooting code is one of the less glamorous things we (and you) do, still sadly omnipresent. Today, I want to show you how to take away a little bit of the pain: I'll show you how you can tell Launch to deliver un-minified code. This is an extremely quick and easy tip, tbh, … Continue reading Quick tip – non-minified Launch code is easier to debug
How to debug Launch, by Adobe
DTM is quite a bit easier to use and handle than Launch is. Partly, Launch is new and we are all on the upwards slope of the learning curve. Partly, Launch opens up whole new worlds. For those of you working with/in DTM and/or Launch, this is a pretty cool time. I once wrote about … Continue reading How to debug Launch, by Adobe
Accessing Adobe I/O using Java
You might remember how, a couple of years ago, I was whining about how the authentication on the Reporting API was difficult. At the time, I wrote some Java code that was able to log into it, and I have been using that code, more or less unchanged, for a long time. Now, all APIs … Continue reading Accessing Adobe I/O using Java
Bad Data – Prevention & other Aspects
Someone asked me the other day: if I cannot currently run tests to improve data quality, is there anything else I can do to make my data better? Now there's a good question! The obvious, easy, and somewhat lame answer is: well, why can't you run tests? You'd be able to catch and prevent, like, … Continue reading Bad Data – Prevention & other Aspects