Man, sometimes you just want the simplest thing in the world, and it turns into a four-hour headache. I needed a visitor counter. Not a fancy analytics dashboard with heatmaps and funnels and all that crap. I just wanted a damn little number at the bottom of my posts...
Getting the Gear Right (Mistake #1 & #2) Man, let me tell you about this airport gig. When they first brought me in to figure out this whole visitor counter thing, I thought, “Easy peasy. Slap a couple of sensors up, run some wire, done.” Boy, was I...
The Great School Visitor Counter Scramble: What I Dug Up Okay, so let me tell you why I even ended up wading through the muddy waters of school visitor management systems. It started with my old buddy, Mike. His kid’s elementary school was still running on a sign-in...
So, the client called me up. This was a nightmare scenario. They had this huge trade show, right? Tens of thousands of people through the door over four days. When the dust settled, they had a major problem: the security company said 35,000 visitors, but the ticket...
Man, let me tell you about this museum counter saga. I got roped into this project a few months ago, helping a medium-sized historical gallery modernize their operations. Their biggest headache? They had no idea how many people were actually coming through the doors....
So listen, a few months back, I got dragged into this whole visitor counter mess. Not for me, but for my old friend who runs that small mall downtown. He’d just splashed out on new cameras and security gates, but the big boss was on his back wanting real numbers. Not...
