Yearly Archives: 2009

My URL Shortening Service now has a preview mode.

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My URL shortening service at http://mhurl.com, that I mainly use with my blog to create Short URLs for new posts to be tweeted about, now has a preview option you can enable that will show the destination URL, which you can then decide if you wish to click on or not rather than automatically being redirected to the destination. In order for this to work your browser must be set to accept cookies. If you are like me and have 3rd-party cookies disabled, that is fine.

Once you have it set, you can test it with this Short URL which should be created after I publish the post: http://mhurl.com/2.

Even though I will not send anyone to a questionable site, I understand many would want this ability. 🙂

Testing my own shortening service, post 1

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Hopefully this works correctly on my production blog the first try LOL.

Publish!

Update: It Worked! http://mhurl.com/1 links to this post now. The Longurl.org website and DestroyTwitter Twitter client are able to preview the link without any problem.  TweetDeck v0.26.1 and TwitterFox 1.8.1 are not able to.

I modified the WordPress Twitter-Tools plug-in to create the short-urls using my shortener before sending the tweet out about the post. 🙂

Blog has been upgraded to WordPress v2.8

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I have updated my blog to WordPress v2.8 which was just released. This time I tried the auto upgrade option. It seems to have worked well. Even so, once again I had to edit the /wp-includes/vars.php file to force $is_apache to true (see below) since the SERVER_SOFTWARE variable comes back as WebServerX instead of Apache.

// Server detection

/**
 * Whether the server software is Apache or something else
 * @global bool $is_apache
 */
//$is_apache = ((strpos($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], 'Apache') !== false) || (strpos($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], 'LiteSpeed') !== false)) ? true : false;
$is_apache = true;
/**
 * Whether the server software is IIS or something else
 * @global bool $is_IIS
 */
$is_IIS = (strpos($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], 'Microsoft-IIS') !== false) ? true : false;

There was some code I modified in the RSS Feed widget in /wp-includes/rss.php in previous versions; however, so far it looks like I may not have to reapply that code. After completing the upgrade I did notice that I had to upgrade the TinyMCE Advanced plug-in for WordPress 2.8 compatibility.

Other than the modification to vars.php which I have always had to do, the upgrade went smoothly. 🙂

Of course, I did perform a complete database and file backup before upgrading! 🙂

Wall-E added to DVD collection!

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A long time coming; however, I’ve added Wall-E to my DVD Collection! Well, actually, my mom got it for me as a birthday present. Thanks mom! 🙂 Really a great movie. I highly recommend watching it if you haven’t. As always, I’ve scanned in the cover, provided a trailer, and included links to IMDb and DVD-Empire. 🙂

Updated my NASCAR and Weather pages, and it’s June 6th

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Just a real quick note to mention that I’ve updated my NASCAR and Weather pages to include some additional links and Twitter resources.

June 6th.. well, not only is today D-Day, it’s also my B-Day. I turn 40 today! ACK! 😯

The following music video also mentions the date June 6th:

Yeah.. that’s about all I have to say for now LOL. I’m tired. 🙂