God, I hope you don’t mind my sense of humour. This is my Melbourne version of the Bus Driver’s Prayer. (The original version is Mat 6:9-13.)
Please skip or stop reading now if you’re easily offended.
Our Fawkner, who art in Hampton
Hawthorn be thy name.
Thy King's Park come; thy Williamstown,
In Eltham as it is in Hampton.
Give us this day our daily Burwood
And Footscray us our Kensington
As we Footscray those who Toorak against us.
And lead us not into Templestowe
But Donvale us from Yarraville
For thine is the King's Park,
and the Prahran, and the Glen Waverly,
For Malvern and Malvern.
Armadale.
Everyone seems to have their own favourite URL shortening service, TinyURL, is.gd, tr.im, pendek.in, and so on. Some even do more than just shorten URLs, e.g. tr.im can track stats.
It’s relatively easy to roll own your own URL shortening service once you know the magic behind it. I’m going to explain the basic idea so you can start rolling out your own.
UPDATE: check out django-shorturls, a Django app recently created by Simon Willison and Jacob Kaplan-Moss, it uses a similar base 62 approach.
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Many people mistakenly think that “web design” means making a website looks nice. Well, that’s only half of the equation. It’s so much more than just layout. One of the major elements in web design is usability, which roughly means making a website feels nice. The other half of the equation that many people tend to forget. A successful web design normally requires balancing of these two major elements.
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To everyone that’s been complaining about the size of newer LCD monitors that are getting bigger causing neck pains:
DON’T SIT SO CLOSE TO THE MONITOR!
Pedantic Bastard is a blog about being pedantic written by my alter ego. Please don’t read it.
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