Author Archives: ron
Status
Still a bit disrupted by the move. More work has gone into the new database-based black/white listings. From now on, I’m going to refer to that as the Policy System, since that’s what I think of it as, and that’s … Continue reading
Too Effective
The enhanced (database-based) blocklisting functionality I installed prior to my move and short trip out of town turns out to have pretty much blocked all of my regular users. Or so I think. Maybe. So now I’m adding an audit … Continue reading
News
General I have moved (again). This is very disruptive, and thus I haven’t done a lick of work on TightURL since. That doesn’t mean I didn’t do anything before I moved though. I have finally gotten into the thick of … Continue reading
API news
For those interested in an API, these are the latest hopes: http://luracast.com/products/restler/ and http://fatfree.sourceforge.net/page/routing-engine/representational-state-transfer-rest-and-classes-objects I only just discovered both of these, but either looks promising. Since Fat Free Framework shows me procedural PHP examples, that’s a plus in its favor. However, … Continue reading
Bad Behavior 2.2
Work slowed a bit due to illness. It’s going to slow again as I am moving yet again to a new home. In the meantime, I am going to be porting the TightURL interface for Bad Behavior to the Bad … Continue reading
Squisher Engines
The coming plugin system will finally allow for a long-planned feature. Custom URL “shorteners”, which I’ve been calling squisher engines, or just squishers. For example, one user requested the ability to generate easily remembered URLs based on common words. This … Continue reading
Hooks (future version)
Been sick, nothing much happened for a couple of weeks. Then I picked up some code I had stashed in the “next version” folder, which like most of the code I find, had some problems. After the cron debacle I … Continue reading
Progress Report
I’ve done some work in both the future major release, and in the production version. The next version released will be known as 0.1.3.6, it will be based on the version that runs at tighturl.com, and I am going to … Continue reading
Investigating an Interim Release
As promised earlier, I’m investigating an interim release of TightURL so I can continue work on the major release, which I need to spend a bit more time with before I can even run it myself anywhere. It’s really still … Continue reading
Additions Report
I’ve done a little work on the new additions report I get every hour to include some statistics. It now shows the total records added on today’s date along with the total records added today that have been disabled. The … Continue reading