I woke up a to an inspiring post from Michael Janssen, one of Cullect’s biggest supporters: “Still, I hope Cullect can come back in some form in the future, as it was hands down the best reader that I had ever used.” Wow. That means a great deal to me. Cullect was originally built during …
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What Were You Doing?
“I shut down a whole bunch of experimental Twitter apps. I feel a phase ending. I don’t see Twitter as my platform.” – Dave Winer In my work to bring Cullect back from hiatus, I’ve been doing a full code review and asking myself what should stay, what should be fixed, and what should go. …
Cull.us: Branded URL Shortener with Google Analytics, CNAME, and .htaccess
One of the biggest problems with URL shorteners – aside from being needed at all – is it’s not easy to move from one to another without breaking all the previous links. Culld.us hopes to change all that. Use Your Own Domain Name At Culld.us, you get a subdomain – like grv.culld.us – and just …
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Culld.Us – URL Shortening Reimagined
We don’t shorten URLs just to shorten them. We shorten them for the same reason big box retailers sell flat-pack furniture – greater confidence during transport. With that in mind, I’ve completely rebuilt Cullect’s URL Shortener1 – http://culld.us It’s still custom brand-able. In a way I’m much happier with than in the previous version – …
RealTimeAds.com Launches at MinnPost.com
I’m pleased to announce the launch of RealTimeAds.com – a advertising product now in beta testing at MinnPost.com Karl and I have been building and testing the system for a couple of months now and I’m quite happy with it on three of fronts; It feels like it makes advertising approachable to people and organizations …
How To Cache Highly Dynamic Data in Rails with Memcache – Part 3
In part 1 and part 2, I laid out my initial approaches on caching and performance in Cullect. While both of them pointed in the right direction, I realized I was caching the wrong stuff in the wrong way. Since then, I tried replicating the database – one db for writes, one for reads. Unfortunately, …
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Cullect in 3 Minutes
Here’s a quick 3 minute snippet from the latest First Crack podcast where Idescribe what Cullect is and how I use it. Cullect in 3 Minutes .mp3 The full conversation is at First Crack #118 – Shef Turns the Tables on Garrick
After a couple very rough weeks – I’m happy with where Cullect and it’s caching
After a couple very rough weeks – I’m happy with where Cullect and it’s caching strategy is. It’s slightly different from where I talked about last. I’ve also added a slave DB to the mix since my last write up. Overall, it feels more solid, and is performing at or better than before
How To Cache Highly Dynamic Data in Rails with Memcache – Part 2
In my part 1, I laid out my initial approach on caching in Cullect. It had some obvious deficiencies; This approach really only sped up the latest 20 (or so items). Fine if those items don’t change frequently (i.e. /important vs /latest) or you only want the first 20 items (not the second 20), The …
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Cullect and Why I Built It – UPA-MN Feb 12 ’09 6-8pm @ Open Book
(cross posted @ MNteractive.com & blog.cullect.com) I’ll be talking about how and why I built Cullect.com, Feburary 12th UPA-MN event at the Open Book, 6-8pm (Feels good to be back at the UPA-MN, it’s been too long.) The agenda: Developing a product you will use and the way you will use it. Designing the API …
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