Comments on: Tiny URLs based on pk

By: Mark Bate

Mark Bate — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:35:09 +0000

nice idea.
will the permalink be optional or automagical?
It probably won’t matter either way, other than a little number crunching on the server.

as far as characters to use.. the tilde is quite nice, it’s a funky little character.
I personally think you should try and pick a character that plays with the permalink idea. generally permalinks are something someone thinks is important and should be drawn to attention, kind of like a pinned notice.
Characters that might resemble pushpins could be appropriate? eg. ‘ or ` (side on push pins?), *, +, @ (front on push pins?)

By: Charlie La Mothe

Charlie La Mothe — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:31:59 +0000

http://code.djangoproject.com/changeset/8162#file15

By: Cesar Noel Quinon

Cesar Noel Quinon — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:58:47 +0000

I would be nice that pownce would have an tinyurl integrated within the system so that I would shorten the links on the post. Similar to what they did with Twhirl or Twitterfox

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:39:06 +0000

My template arguments got zapped, but you get the idea.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:37:32 +0000

Late on the uptake, yes, but I love doing little things like this. It’s faster to push the characters to a list, reverse the list, and join the elements. About 15% faster. Also, you realize that this occasionaly (1/56th of the time) sticks a 0 (encoded as ‘2′) on the front? A do-while loop would be simpler, but Python misses out on that one:

def int_to_anybase(num, alphabet):
if (num == 0): return alphabet[0]
arr = []
while num:
rem = num % base
num = num // base
arr.append(alphabet[num])
arr.reverse()
return ”.join(arr)

Here’s a do-while in the language of the gods:

std::string int_to_anybase(unsigned num, const std::string &alphabet)
{
std::ostringstream out;
std::list list;
size_t base = alphabet.length();
do {
unsigned rem = num % base;
num /= base;
list.push_front(alphabet[rem]);
} while (num);
std::copy(list.begin(), list.end(), std::ostream_iterator(out));
return out.str();
}

By: Chris Milton

Chris Milton — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:34:30 +0000

Leah,

Have you considered the caret? “^”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret

Chris

By: kevin

kevin — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:09:48 +0000

http://clickontyler.com/blog/2007/10/foo9-url-shortener/

By: Leah

Leah — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:18:50 +0000

James - The default view is great for using the ids and it’s nice to know it exists. However, I wanted to make the URL suffix shorter than the note id by using more url-safe chars.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:58:26 +0000

Just wondering…what’s the benefit of url-encoding the note ids, when you can just use the note id itself?

By: Tyler Menezes

Tyler Menezes — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:08:17 +0000

Why not an exclamation mark? I’ve always liked them, and the only UNIX related use I can think of is `!!` on the command line, which inserts the last command. Actually, I think that’s only Linux, but anyways.

~ would probably be confusing, though.

Make sure, whatever you do, that you send a 301 Moved Permanently header. I mean, I’m sure you know that, but just thought I’d mention it. Really terrible for SEO otherwise.