My company, Local Matters, is holding a job fair to try and fill some of our open req’s.  There are /lots/ of openings: developers, QA engineers, analysts, project managers, sysadmins, etc.  There are openings in Denver and in Amsterdam.

Local Matters is a pretty sweet place to work.  Especially the part about the openings in Amsterdam (where I’m posted for a year).  Good benefits, good people, good location(s), kick-ass products.  Laid-back work atmosphere.

It’s this coming Tuesday, July 29th starting at 3pm.  See the flyer for full details.  Mention my name and get free refreshments! (okay, you get them free anyhow).

The idea is that web metrics (or webanalytics, if you’re so inclined) systems generally make an HTTP request (usually an image) in order to pass along tracking information.  The URLs contain lots of parameters, conveniently URL-encoded so you can’t read them easily.

Omnibug is an extension to Firebug (without a doubt the best Firefox add-on available, driving a revolution in web UI development).  It adds a new panel with the decoded output of each such HTTP request, making it a breeze to see exactly what values were sent.

Though it was designed with Omniture in mind, it will work with other systems (also tested with Moniforce).  The patterns it looks for are fully configurable, so in theory it should work with any similar system.

An additional feature is the ability to log matching requests to the local filesystem.  While this feature was intended to support automated testing of metrics implementations, it may have other uses.

See the Omnibug page for downloads and full documentation.

Turns out there’s a pretty easy fix for this using the Finder, so long as your account has administrator privileges:

Steps:

1. In the Finder, go to /etc (or do <cmd>-<shift>-g and enter /etc, if you don’t see it in the Finder)
2. Get Info on sudoers
3. In the Info window’s Sharing & Permissions section, add an entry for your local user with read and write access
4. With a text editor, edit /etc/sudoers and fix the problem.
5. Fix the permissions on /etc/sudoers back to 0440.
6. Enjoy your newly-regained sudo power!

Of course, this can be used to overcome other permissions problems too.

If only visudo had a validator, along with a syntax checker…

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