Detecting a “unique” anonymous user

There are actually many ways you can detect a “unique” user. Many of these methods are used by our marketing friends. It get’s even easier when you have plugins enabled such as Java, Flash etc. Currently my favorite presentation of cookie based tracking is evercookie (http://samy.pl/evercookie/). It creates a “permanent” cookie via multiple storage mechanisms, … Read more

How to generate unique id in Dart

1. There is a UUID pub package: http://pub.dartlang.org/packages/uuid example usage: import ‘package:uuid/uuid.dart’; // Create uuid object var uuid = Uuid(); // Generate a v1 (time-based) id uuid.v1(); // -> ‘6c84fb90-12c4-11e1-840d-7b25c5ee775a’ // Generate a v4 (random) id uuid.v4(); // -> ‘110ec58a-a0f2-4ac4-8393-c866d813b8d1’ // Generate a v5 (namespace-name-sha1-based) id uuid.v5(uuid.NAMESPACE_URL, ‘www.google.com’); // -> ‘c74a196f-f19d-5ea9-bffd-a2742432fc9c’ 2. This src has … Read more