A long long time ago I wrote a utility for del.icio.us to get the history of posts in RSS, provide a little trend graphic and link to a bunch of other utilities for URLs. Durl was born, it even got slashdotted (I might even add, when slashdot jumped the shark) but a few months later del.icio.us itself was providing an RDF feed of the posts history. Then sometime last year my tools server went down, taking with it the wall of music, sparktags, hot off the wiki and a bunch more stuff.
Honestly, I don’t have real plans to resuscitate that box and last week, I got a request for Durl. Turns out, people missed my del.icio.us graphics. While I didn’t want to rewrite Durl, I thought a little bit of code that could turn the del.icio.us RDF feed into a sparkline would be all I needed. But I didn’t want to worry about hosting…
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The Universal Redirector Revealer is up, albeit humble. It’s a simple tool to find out what a short URL leads to without visiting the site. Tinyurl, snurl, ln-s, petiturl, decenturl are all supported, as well as many more similar services.
It’s using a bit of Ajax to show the destination URL and its title, storing the results in a database for instant results on the second and later requests.
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UPDATE: Maxime nous explique la situation à propos des versions de PHP en français, merci :)
It’s official, the PHP development team is finally abandoning version 4 in favour of PHP 5 and upcoming PHP 6 (unicode, finally!). Right on the heal of the Go PHP 5 initiative too :) I really don’t care what Matt says (this was enough for me to go in and remove his rss feed from MY wordpress dashboard, I’m really tired of him dissing projects not from his A-list), it’s about time.
So, no more releases of PHP 4.4 after then end of the year, and only critical security fixes until August 8 2008.
“For documentation on migration for PHP 4 to PHP 5, we would like to point you to our migration guide. There is additional information available in the PHP 5.0 to PHP 5.1 and PHP 5.1 to PHP 5.2 migration guides as well.”
J’étais à Montréal la semaine passée, rencontré Sarah, la nouvelle colloc à la Bande-Passante et elle m’a fait découvrir le jeu Sets. Vous connaissez ? (ouais, je l’ai recodé un après-midi sans internet…)
Bon, pas tout à fait… mais j’ai commencé un p’tit bot pour suivre les parties de hockey de la LNH via twitter. Pour le moment, il faut suivre twrl, mais je compte faire un bot pour chaque équipe. En gros, ça annonce chaque but et le début de chaque période.
Ne manquez pas la partie de ce soir ;)
One thing leading to another, I found myself writing yet another bot, this time for twitter which I’ll expand on one of these days. It’s very preliminary, doesn’t do anything really public yet (let me know if you want to beta test) but it’s got a nice icon ;) Meet twrl, by twitter bot. It’s also a Jabber (XMPP) bot, but that is another story.
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Been working on another little tool for the Waglo Labs collection for the last few days. This one, called Hot Off The Wiki, or HOTW for short, let’s you view at a glance what’s currently hot on a given wiki, by number of edits and amounts of change. For the moment, I can parse the pbwiki and moinmoin recent changes feeds, working on a few more. I’ll release source the moment I refactor things out a little.
I’ve got a few more planned features too, like arrows pointing up or down according to trends, maybe a history view including sparklines (like I did with Sparktags). I’d love to read your comments about it, please don’t be shy :)
WordPress 2.0.7 qui sort 10 jours après la 2.0.6… ça vaudrait la peine de mettre à jour.
Autre nouveauté, jQuery 1.1 nous arrive, avec un nouveau site et nouvelle documentation.
Ouais, l’année est repartie de plus belle !
La version 5 de Drupal vient de sortir en ce sixième anniversaire du célèbre système de gestion de contenu. C’est Koumbit qui va être content de faire tous ces upgrades :P
On compte déjà 212 modules et 14 thèmes disponibles pour la nouvelle version.
A new online toy for del.icio.us users, Sparktags. Quoting from that page:
“You can change all options by manipulating the URL of this ressource. Not all options make sense. Yeah, I will eventually provide a nicer interface.
Did I mention you can reorder the tags just by dragging them? If you have a del.icio.us account and don’t mind handing over your password, you can supply it with your username and get your own sparktags. I don’t log the passwords, if that’s any relief. First call can take a while to show any results, but I cache aggresively.
The Sparktags source is available as usual. Coded by Robin with a little help from the jquery and interface javascript libraries and the sparkline webservice. More of my stuff on the Waglo Labs tools page.”
Qu’est-ce que j’ai bien pu manger le mois dernier ? Tout ce que je sais, c’est qu’au lieu de me reposer en campagne (faut avouer que j’ai quand même lever le pied quand à mes implications usuelles), j’ai plutôt commencé une bonne douzaine de projets.
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