Friday 24 August 2018

Unknown region breaks map in Blogger's Audience stats

Blogging is all about vanity in the end, and to flatter ourselves we check on the audience stats provided by Blogger from time to time. Today I notice something rather peculiar: as I fiddle with the time-span (day, week, month) I notice that the maps works fine when it knows the countries in question.
But lately 'unknown region' has been showing up, and that seems to destroy the map altogether, so no country is coloured anymore. Tableau would have happily warned me of one null while still colouring all other countries.

Saturday 18 August 2018

The flaws of Flow: Can't zip downloaded files

Microsoft Flow has been proving more useful in my Office 365 dominated environment. I've been using the FTP connector to download masses of files to my OneDrive. The OneDrive comes with a 1 TB limit, which is plenty but it is worth trying to keep things compact. Unfortunately, while flow can extract from zipped archives, it can't do the opposite. In order to manually create a zipped archive, the computer downloads all the files, zips them and uploads them back to OneDrive. Gotta love Microsoft!