nick@kavassalis.com's blog » Blog http://kavassalis.com My rantings about code, carriers, cars, and cameras Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:21:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Updated URL shortening rewrite http://kavassalis.com/2010/09/updated-url-shortening-rewrite/ http://kavassalis.com/2010/09/updated-url-shortening-rewrite/#comments Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:31:27 +0000 nick http://kavassalis.com/?p=207 implementation was 30 minutes, so this takes it up to 35 [...]]]> Something I’d meant to do since the day I did it was to add the rewrite rule so that I could exclude the l? from URL shortened links my social bookmarker generated. (I had been repeatedly poked for leaving this out too) The original idea->implementation was 30 minutes, so this takes it up to 35 minutes for the project, and only took a few months to implement. My entire .htaccess including the WordPress business is:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]{3,3})$ l.php?$1 [L]
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

And everything seems to be working as it should. That brings me up to 122 characters for the messages that accompany my URLs!

]]> http://kavassalis.com/2010/09/updated-url-shortening-rewrite/feed/ 0 Hello world! http://kavassalis.com/2010/02/hello-world/ http://kavassalis.com/2010/02/hello-world/#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:43:38 +0000 nick http://kavassalis.com/dotorg/?p=1 So I’ve decided to catalog some of my development projects / experiments as well as make my general rants bigger than the SMS sized text field twitter allows. So for the 800th time, I’m launching a blog.

So far I think I’m going to approve comments by hand, but once someone has an approved comment they can post instantly. That shouldn’t be too much effort, but we’ll see how it goes. I’m feeling too lazy (it is Sunday morning after all) to dig up some captcha plugin and install it. Wordpress is always very enjoyable to install, its quick and painless. The photo I threw uptop was taken last Fall in Mississauga’s Port Credit. Here it is in its entirety. I chose it due to fairly similar colors to the theme I chose. I will likely change it in the near future.

(I did however throw up a Twitter plugin to syndicate all my rants to my various social media outlets. I apologize for any perceived spam in advance!)

Don’t have too much to say other than that, it is Sunday morning after all. Cheers!

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