RE07.US continues to make me smile. Last night’s update added a couple neat things; URLs now auto-expire after 5 minutes, yes, there’s also a timer. Usage data; referer, user agent, etc is now being captured. and finally, I’m testing out the RE07.US javascript widget for displaying the RE07.US link on your blog. I’ve got some […]
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Introducing: RE07.US – The Greenest URL Shortener
According to a recent post by FuelInteractive.com, a link in Twitter is clicked for 5 minutes, then completely ignored. That got me thinking about all the wasted short urls out there. So many tinyurl, culld.us, is.gd, et al, links just collecting dust after all that initial clicking. Seems so wasteful considering “the current economic climate”. […]
The New Project Setup Checklist
As I mentioned earlier, one of my goals for this year is to launch 2 revenue-generating projects. I took a couple hours this morning and started the ball rolling on 2 of the potential candidates to fulfill that goal. Here’s the checklist I use to lay the foundation for a project: Declare a descriptive code […]
I started building up new project today, one of the 2 initial revenue generating
I started building up new project today, one of the 2 initial revenue generating projects on my 2009 list. While it’s a way from launching, much of the heavy lifting was completed today. Conceptually, I’ve been using a proof-of-concept of this project for a couple years now. Oh, and I spent waaaay to long looking […]
QSPress.rb – Quicksilver to WordPress in Ruby
Remember the Quicksilver to WordPress Applescript I wrote a while back? Well, I’ve ported it to Ruby. The QSPress.rb works the same as the Applescript version, with a couple of tweaks – you can now set categories, flag if a post should be a draft, and upload files – all from Quicksilver. The full instructions […]
iPhoto to WordPress Ruby Script
I maintain a WordPress blog that’s primarily an extension of iPhoto, and the various iPhoto plugins (Photon by Daikini, Photon by Orby, WordPress Export) I’ve tried over the years seem to have stopped being maintained, stopped working, or both. Which is fine, they never worked exactly the way I wanted them too anyway. So, I […]
9 Things Cullect Taught Me About Software
Forcing people to create an account to use your software is a bug. if you’re not scared to deploy, you’ve stopped caring. Murphy is alive and well. Google and a bookself of technical books can be equally useless. Good software is like an iceberg. if you ask for money, people will give it to you. […]
How To Cache Highly Dynamic Data in Rails with Memcache – Part 1
There are a number of ways increase Ruby on Rails performance through caching. Caching works because things don’t change….or don’t change frequently. In Cullect, almost everything is dynamic, even Cullect’s HTML presentation format has 3 different states depending on access privileges and there are 8 other presentation formats available. The standard page, action, and fragment […]
Project Launch: Best Buy Forums
I just got word one of the projects I’m involved with at Best Buy launched today: Best Buy Forums The team that pulled it together really ‘gets’ online communities and was a pleasure to work with. Add this to Remix.BestBuy.com, Giftag, and Blue Shirt Nation, and yeah, there’s a stack of very cool work happening […]
How To: Build a Wiki with Ruby on Rails – Part 2
Back in Part 1 of Building a Wiki with Ruby on Rails, we built the core wiki engine. Time to add some syntax formatting. These days, I’m pretty enamored of Haml, it’s more like HTML (unlike many other formatting engines) and it’s fast to write (unlike many other formatting engines). 1. Install Haml Haml installs […]