Programming

tuwoo update

righto, I have practicaly rewritten beta 1 of tuwoo. it is not much better. i have added the add note form to the top of the page. so now it looks a little bit like twitter's old design. If you are a user go and have a little look.

tuwoo - what am i doing?

Some people have asked me what I am doing with Tuwoo, as it started out as a Twitter type clone system. Well I got bored of trying to write a Twitter clone as it seems a little superfluous. I mean, what is the point - everyone uses Twitter (even though we all moan) and I do not really see that changing anytime soon. Why would someone use my system when all of their friends are using Twitter??

tuwoo beta 1

i have been spouting about tuwoo for months now, but i have finally released beta 1. You can have a look here: www.espresso-online.info/tuwoo.

I have changed the function of the app to make it very simple, it is now similar to something like pastebin.com, just that the notes/lists are protected.

I am thinking about adding some form of sharing sometime in the near future, but i am still contemplating as to how best to implement it.

FormAPI Class Library

I think that somewhere in this blog of mine i have told you that i am writing a FormAPI Class Library. I started with it when i was working on Tuwoo (which is still not done), but last night i deciced that i would rewrite it completely from scratch and release it as an open-source stand-alone class library (i may add this to a framework that i am slowly putting together).

ReVerse App

whats ReVerse App? well simply, it collects the BibleGateway Verse-of-the-Day using the RSS provided and then stores them in a database. This allows you to look at an archive of Verse-of-the-Day verses.

You can have a look at the Beta over here: www.espresso-online.info/reverse

please tell me what you think as well as I am keen to make it very useful :)

mod_rewrite Part 2

in part 1 (www.espresso-online.info/site/node/66) I talked about some server setup stuff that is required before you can use mod_rewrite. If you are hosting on a shared hosting platform you do not really need to read part one as the server should already be setup.

I just need to say that i am working on a system that uses Apache 2.x, PHP 5.x, and Fedora Core 8.

getting apache mod_rewrite to work (Part 1)

We've all heard about it, but there are a lot of us that cannot get it to work. I couldn't get mod_rewrite to work for a very long time, but i managed to figure it out in the end, thanks to noel (www.noelharrison.net) and drupal (i had a peak inside their .htaccess file.

so what does mod_rewrite do? in a nutshell, it takes query strings (such as ?q=blah&something_else=more) and turns it into something beautiful (such as /blah/something_else/more), this makes it look like a file structure and allows people to enter URLs manually much easier.

css floats - how, what,why

I know that when i started working with CSS a few years ago the thing that got me stuck were floats. I could never get them right. :)

So i thought that maybe someone might benefit from me chatting a little about css floats. so here they are. this is just a very basic tutorial, if you want to know more or add to this please feel free to leave a little comment.

Tuwoo Todo - Update

As you may have read (www.espresso-online.info/site/node/11) i have been working on my little todo (http://espresso-online.info/tuwoo) list application that started out as a twitter (www.twitter.com) like application. i have been really busy in the past few weeks so i have not updated the application very much - that is the reason that you will have seen an error page instead of tuwoo.

i am now working on it this evening a little bit so there may be some updates soon, hopefully in about an hour or so.

trac on fedora core

if you run fedora core and write applications, this information could be useful to u (or it mught not be). sooner or later you will be wanting some form of version control system to be running on one of your servers. You dont necessarily have to be running fedora core, trac/subversion should run on any system, but as i run fedora as my development server i am biased towards it :)