Anyway, to try and do something somewhat interesting I’d thought I’d hook it up to the twitter and last.fm api’s tonight over too many gin and tonics. So I created http://lyricsoftheday.info and http://albumoftheday.info (which is parked with lyricsoftheday).

All they do is search for the #lyricsoftheday and #albumoftheday hashtags on twitter and return the results. I’m trying to get the album of the day to grab the album cover from last.fm but this is proving a bit harder as I need to provide both the album name and artist to the api, which is sometimes hard to determine (check http://albumoftheday.info and you will see what I mean).

The styling is GHASTLY. Yes.

The code is up on github at http://github.com/ae0000/lyricsoftheday if anyone is interested or wants to style it up.

Next step is to try and wean the crappy lyrics out…. then create a cronjob to submit tom waits lyrics every minute.

Or perhaps even better, fixing peoples ill-informed tweets for them

eg. (using the currently number one tweet)
Someone: I will never know cause you will never show. #lyricsoftheday

“@Someone: ” + insert_random_tom_waits_lyric(); +” #FTFY #lyricsoftheday”

alias klogger='tail -f -s 5 /home/ae/workspace/eventarc/www/logs/`date +%Y-%m-%d`.log.php'


Installing CoolUri in Typo3 on linux / apache2 / php5

Based on: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dd33gg45_3f8j96p

Steps :

Check if the weberver has the following settings:
PHP5+ with SimpleXML enabled
MySQL 4.1+
Apache’s mod_rewrite enabled

Go into the extension manager
Choose menu option ‘Import extensions’
Upload extension file: cooluri_1.0.4.t3x
Found here ( http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/cooluri/ )

Once imported, install it and accept its defaults (altering tables etc.)

Add a htaccess:
(check that it covers all folders in the root directory)

# Enable URL rewriting
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/(typo3|typo3temp|typo3conf|t3lib|tslib|css|calculator|fileadmin|uploads|showpic\.php)/ - [L]
RewriteRule ^/(typo3|typo3temp|typo3conf|t3lib|tslib|css|calculator|fileadmin|uploads|showpic\.php)/.*$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^typo3$ typo3/index_re.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l

# Main URL rewriting.
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]

Copy across the CoolUriConf xml file:
cp typo3conf/ext/cooluri/cooluri/CoolUriConf.xml_default typo3conf/CoolUriConf.xml

Add a domain record
- Go to the homepage, -> NEW -> DOMAIN (add the domain name in)

Add the following to the main template setup::

# Cooluri
config.simulateStaticDocuments = 0
config.baseURL = http://mtaa.supernaut/
config.tx_cooluri_enable = 1
config.redirectOldLinksToNew = 1

Go to the backend and select the ‘CoolUri’ menu item
Click ‘Delete/Update all’ -> DELETE EVERYTHING AND START AGAIN

Clear cache

Try.

For CATMENU see note from Jan:

try to remove the part which removes cHash parameter from URLs. Since
tt_news are cached, they either require cHash or you’d need to make them
COA_INT.

I was complaining to someone the other day about how most text editors fail to deal with large files. I was trying to edit a 8mb sql file and my default editors eclipse and cream (a vim extension) both couldn’t handle it. I then tried emacs and jEdit neither of which I particularly like. jEdit at least opened the file. But the interface is clunky and on my system at least, wont go past 800×600 screen real estate….

In the end I made all the text edits to the sql file using sed which is a handy (and quick) command line tool. But I was still disturbed….

Anyway, I read a blog post somewhere that said scribes was the go. So I installed it and gave it a whirl on my latest sql file which was 38mb.

It took a few seconds to open, but it DID open and the first thing you notice is that (for gnome users at least) it looks like a gnome editor (unlike jEdit which screams “I was made in the 90’s in java“).

The template system is also very cool. It reminds me a little of swanky Mac people and their TextMate. Rather than me trying to describe it go here and look at the example video. Which also shows the bookmark feature which is cool. Check out its other features here. Oh and its open source too…of course.

The features which I think make this framework shine above the rest are its implementation of MVC which is really smooth and its easy template system.

You should check it out. Askeet was build in 24 days as part of a symfony advent – its a good example of how quick it is to get a web app online with symfony.

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