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”

Instead there is a default one being used, found here: /etc/bash.bashrc

To add aliases and what not for my user account I added the following to this file:


# Added by ae - load aliases if they exist
if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
. ~/.bash_aliases
fi


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.

Useful things:

apache2ctl – t (check the syntax of virtual host files BEFORE reloading and breaking apache)

apache2ctl – M (show all the loaded modules – ie. check if rewrite is enabled and working)

apache2ctl – E (log startup errors to file)

apache2ctl – h (show the rest of the options)

Also, I was having issues getting a “real url” module called cooluri working for a typo3 site. In the end it was because my virtual host file was missing (link) :
AllowOverride All

Thats one of those things thats happened before but was forgotten along the way …. hopefully it will be useful for someone out there searching for why mod_rewrite isn’t working the way it should do….

While he makes a good point for using just ‘>’ and putting everything else in the window bar, that just doesn’t cut it for me.

So – heres my suggestion which I have hacked from a CentOS server I ssh into on occasions:
PS1=”\[\033[1;31m\][\$(date +%H):$(date +%M)]\[\033[1;34m\][\u@\h:\w]#\[\033[0;37m\] ”

Just whack that into bash to try it out. To save it put it into your .bashrc file