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Re: Exceptional 2 and RubyFoo | Exceptional Blog

darraghcurran — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:57:32 -0000

Ah, cool. Looking at the list view, we can change it to have the url as the second line (it's already pretty much a duplicate of the first line anyways.)
Thanks again!

Re: Exceptional 2 and RubyFoo | Exceptional Blog

darraghcurran — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:25:33 -0000

Hey Chris,

Nice one for the feedback.

We're still tweaking many little things. But in some respect this change is a case of 1 step backwards to allow us take 3 forward. 404's is one of the features we're stripping away a little, but planing to make even better soon.

Based on very very low usage, we were happy to kill the short url feature. Have you a compelling reason to keep it?

Good point about the pagination of occurrences - we'll correct that.

I'm interested in your point about the URL's - can you describe your work flow a little that involves copying the url. Would having the url in the notification emails help?

Thanks again for helping us iron out these problems, keep it coming!

Cheers,
Darragh

Re: New Exceptional plugin gem. | Exceptional Blog

darraghcurran — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:07:32 -0000

Good question.

We've actually still got 3 previous versions of the API still in use, which as you can imagine, takes some effort to maintain. We'd love everyone to upgrade, and will eventually end of life the old versions, one by one. We'll announce that with plenty of warning.

I'm curious about the monkey patches you had to apply to the old plugin. Perhaps they are things that we could fix?

Thanks,
Darragh

Re: How's longurlplease doing so far?

darraghcurran — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:58:46 -0000

I just tried it out on this page:
http://search.twitter.com/s...
and everything works, but there's one or two peculiar things.

If you've never changed the extension settings, the default way that it will expand links will only change the link text if it matches exactly the href. search.twitter.com will wrap the search term in bold tags. If you hover over the links, does the status bar show the long url?

What version of the extension have you installed?

Re: How's longurlplease doing so far?

darraghcurran — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:18:42 -0000

Hey Steve - I just added support for http://rde.me and a few other changes http://www.longurlplease.co.... Thanks for getting in touch.
Darragh

Re: Twits Near Me : What people nearby are saying - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:34:56 -0000

Hey Heather,
It uses google ClientLocation (http://code.google.com/apis... which is based on your IP address - which is proving to be a bit off sometimes. Others have suggested being able to change the location manually, which would be useful in this case. I'll try to do that next time I manage to conjure up some spare time.
Cheers,
Darragh

Re: time_ago_in_words javascript part 2 - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:59:11 -0000

37signals posted about the same topic - with a slightly cleaner implementation - and more popular blog post ;)
Check it out:
http://www.37signals.com/sv...

Re: Lets chat at FOWA Dublin. Lets chat at BizCamp. - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:53:06 -0000

Yeah. I had so much fun with our underwater camera on honeymoon. Nothing sinister!
Good luck with your slot at FOWA, I'm sure it'll rock!

Re: URL Shortener Etiquette - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:56:38 -0000

Another unfortunate thing I'm starting to see is URL shortener services that instead of just redirecting you to the target - bring you to an intermediate page - so you can look at the long url before you visit it - or wrap your target page in an iframe so they can show you some ads.

If I don't trust you I wont click your links, and if I do trust you but you link me to ads you'll erode that trust - both are no nos in my book.

Re: How's longurlplease doing so far?

darraghcurran — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:19:17 -0000

Tav, Michael - thanks a million for getting in touch. Sorry for not getting back sooner - I was away on holidays.
It's great to hear you want to use the service - fire ahead!
Get in touch if you've any problems or ideas/suggestions to improve it.
Cheers,
Darragh

Re: Using longurlplease with flXHR

darraghcurran — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:16:34 -0000

Nice one - I just made that change.
Cheers for pointing it out,
Darragh

Re: Long URL Please, Ajaxian Thank You! - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:32:41 -0000

Thanks Tamas - I hope it's useful for you. Happy New Year to you too!
Darragh

Re: Long Urls please

darraghcurran — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:13:10 -0000

Hey Aidan,
I've set up a blog (http://longurlplease.blogsp..., moved the add-on to mozilla add-on site (https://addons.mozilla.org/... and added a bookmarklet so that users of any browsers can benefit from longurlplease.
Perhaps you'd like to do a guest post to the blog (something along the lines of your misusing-tinyurls post)?

Cheers,
Darragh

Re: Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:15:03 -0000

Does this work?

grails install-plugin http://blog.peelmeagrape.ne...

http://docs.huihoo.com/grai...

Re: Long Urls please

darraghcurran — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:06:34 -0000

Thanks Aidan, I'll consider putting together a blog to announce updates etc. For the moment I'll make announcements on twitter - http://twitter.com/longurlp... (low volume)

Re: URL Shortener Etiquette - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:08:29 -0000

Aidan Finn (http://aidanf.disqus.com) has also written about how tiny urls bug him http://www.aidanf.net/blog/... and about how a service I just released can help fight back. http://www.aidanf.net/posts...

Re: Long Urls please

darraghcurran — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:59:53 -0000

Thanks for the link Aidan. I'd love to hear if you've any ideas on how to make it even better.
Cheers,
Darragh

Re: Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:07:39 -0000

Hey Lucy - I'm not into that kind of thing. Your class mates seem better than you at attacking moves - try and make yourself less attackable. You should be able to stop them executing code on your machine remotely. Don't log onto messenger during class!

Re: URL Shortener Etiquette - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:04:11 -0000

Good point - some of the shortener services allow custom aliases. Your example gives a meaningful url, without need for describing the link separately.

Re: Careful who you send mail to from staging environment - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:26:59 -0000

Mike Mangino pointed me to another approach:

http://www.elevatedrails.co...

Add a new delivery method - where you have full control to modify and decide whether to send an email. Nice! Thanks Mike.

Re: Careful who you send mail to from staging environment - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:44:05 -0000

Glad you like it.
I've created a small patch to make this even easier.
http://rails.lighthouseapp....

allowing you to do this in your staging.rb for example.

ActionMailer::Base.perform_deliveries = lambda {|mail| mail.header['to'].to_s =~ /@example.com$/}

Re: Google javascript api location information - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:09:08 -0000

Nice! Thanks for the link - that's very useful to know about. I'd been using something similar to WIP-Base http://www.wipmania.com/en/... to determine location based on request ip address on the server side.

Re: http://blog.peelmeagrape.net/2008/8/14/pre-generating-rails-404-and-500-pages-using-layouts-and-rake

darraghcurran — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:26:08 -0000

Cheers Mark, nuts that the easiest way seems to be using integration
test stuff, anyways thanks for original tip.

Re: hosting365 follow trends... in the wrong direction - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:29:18 -0000

cool - thanks for those links,

Re: hosting365 follow trends... in the wrong direction - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:50:05 -0000

Sounds like interesting times for you. Perhaps you guys could write
something on your blog about the cool stuff you're doing with your
cloud platform? I'd certainly look forward to reading it.
Darragh