Category Archives: Web

Tweeting MythTV events in the new OAuth era

Posted on August 30, 2010 by cdn

The mythtv wiki has a few scripts for tweeting MythTV stuff to twitter; although they all relied upon Basic Auth. until recently. Taking a leaf out of Twitter Tools‘ book it’s possible to convert the LWP::UserAgent-based code to do OAuth. … Continue reading →

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Yes, this IS getting boring

Posted on May 24, 2010 by cdn

Upgraded most of the short linking I’ve been doing outside wordpress/la-petite-url to use yourls; except, of course, that a quick bit of sql didn’t translate everything. The MySQL insert into yourls_url select key1, target, timestamp(concat(year, ‘-’, month, ‘-’,day, ‘ 12:00:00′)), … Continue reading →

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“Fix”ing WordPress database tables

Posted on February 6, 2010 by cdn

After restoring tables from a WP mu backup (an incomplete one as it turned out) various issues presented themselves, not least an inability to submit posts (HTTP 500 not informative). A little searching revealed a likely cause (http://discuss.joyent.com/viewtopic.php?id=19116): missing auto_increment … Continue reading →

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Moo!

Posted on February 2, 2010 by cdn

This blog and shopping.chrs.nl are now running as sub-blogs of a WordPress MU install, if there’s anything wonky going on here, that’s why. Talking of moo; moo.com ( UK | US ) do very nice printing.

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Vanity: A “no, this blog isn’t just about shorturls” post on shorturls

Posted on January 30, 2010 by cdn

Last Saturday, I woke up with a seemingly brilliant idea, a dot-st domain name for use by my online postage half-site Print My Postage, mypo.st was subsequently registered. However, this isn’t about that; I was on skype telling Brian (King) … Continue reading →

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Migrants

Posted on November 1, 2009 by cdn

This [short] blog post should be coming to you from a Shared Accelerator at Joyent running Solaris; rather than the obsolescent FreeBSD server it used to be served from … there was no rush for a Golden Ticket – let … Continue reading →

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la petite url 1.5.1

Posted on September 25, 2009 by cdn

Seems changes like mine have ended up in la petite url, github didn’t have them last time I looked, it was still at 1.5…

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Am I a git?

Posted on August 28, 2009 by cdn

http://github.com/cdn/la-petite-url/tree/281f3876a1008e06da9ffe6e25986c7b718eea6d forked la-petite-url slightly… Note to self: $ git commit -a tends to update the remote files better than just $ git commit

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Upgraded la petite url

Posted on August 28, 2009 by cdn

1.06 up to 1.5 doesn’t go : ) It now has the features I was hacking in: alternative domain name, the other auto–discovery <link /> Just need to fix the Twitter Tools plugin add–on to use appropriate function call(s)

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Short Links and IDNs : Part Deux

Posted on August 25, 2009 by cdn

This will be part two of Short Links, IDNs and (WordPress). lessn and shorty – standalone host-your-own short-url services http://get-shorty.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=21 http://ƨ.ws/shorty http://www.subtraction.com/2006/01/17/get-shorty http://www.subtraction.com/2006/08/24/announcing-s lessn is very simple, you get one username / password and next to no interface – does … Continue reading →

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