Hellaphone Update

January 20, 2009

Some bugfixing and behind the scenes work.
Replaced the old templating with HAML. Mainly because I wanted to give it a try. I like the cleanliness of it, and it is already starting to grow on me. 
Searching a second time replaces the original results now. If you liked the old behavior better (it was an oversite) [...]

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Wordpress problem fixed

January 3, 2009

I had a little wordpress problem this morning. Wordpress kept redirecting to the install.php script. Wordpress does this when it doesn’t find the options table.
I found that the options table was corrupt. Ran a repair and everything worked as normal. Sorry for the downtime.

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Category search for Hellaphone

December 23, 2008

As requested, I’ve implemented a category search filter for hellaphone. Neither the keyword, nor the category is required, but both will filter the results. It’s up in github

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New Hellaphone update

December 21, 2008

New Hellaphone release at github.
Now each news post has a post description available.

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Newzbin Half off top ups again

December 16, 2008

It’s that time of year for half off newzbin topups. I usually top up a year, and it carries me through until half off time again.
A year of newzbin. Just link it up with your hellanzb and hellaphone

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Expose` for Compiz / Beryl

November 25, 2008

I am constantly using Expose` on my MacBook Pro. When I started working on Ubuntu at work I couldn’t remember what the setting was called that emulated expose` (at least a little bit).
It’s called scale. Alt+Shift+up is the default key combo.

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Whoops

November 22, 2008

Sorry about that. I got a little over zealous and moved my website without enabling mod_rewrite. Everything should be back to normal now. Maybe a little quicker.

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Moved over to Linode

November 22, 2008

I finally upgraded to a VPS. No more slugishness. Bought a slice at linode.com. Now I can finally have a decent solution for my rails and merb apps.

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Hellaphone now monitors queue

November 21, 2008

The new hellaphone at github can now monitor the queue and updates the progress. More to come soon.
What’s on the immediate horizon:

Look and feel updates
Slimming down the code for less to download
Ability to reorder, pause, and delete from the queue

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New Hellaphone release

November 21, 2008

New release of hellaphone. I scrapped the old code, got rid of cakephp, rolled a lighter, custom framework. Got rid of the installation troublesome mod_rewrite dependancy that cakephp required. I may even end up with a super light MVC after it’s all done. Grab a copy at Github here.

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