Refer 2.0.1

June 23, 2003

Dean Allen has been working hard on a number of pieces of software, the biggest being his soon-to-be-available blogging tool Textpattern. The one app that I use regularly is Refer. This is a PHP/MySQL app that allows you to view recent referrers to your site. The last few releases have been nice but this one is the first hint at something bigger.

When Dean released 2.0 it's biggest changes were increased speed, stability and the ability to drop data after a select number of days. It was a good update. With 2.0.1 we gain some new functionality -- the ability to see your top referrers over 24, 48, 72 hours or a week. It makes things a lot of fun and is definitely worthy of more than a .0.0.1 release.

With 2.0.1 installed, I can now see that I have received somewhere near 500 hits from people looking for the cool Honda commercial. This is fairly ridiculous, but fun to know.

So if you're vain, curious or some combination of the two, then I suggest you install Refer 2.0.1 and give it a whirl.

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