Recruiting Grounds # The Violated System

2 new domains, shutting down Forum-Grounds

I've registered 2 new domains:
http://h1t.co - Hypertext Coconut
http://hotchix.info - Hot Chix

Hypertext Coconut is a free URL redirecting service with powerful and simple analytics and API. But it is still under construction.

Hot Chix is a site you've already heard about, but I've registered a domain for it. And I will add a very interesting functionality after I finish h1t.co.

Forum - Grounds is once again flooded with spammers, and its database is about 500 megabytes heavy. So I will shut it down soon. What will I do with me, I have no idea at the moment. If you have any idea, please visit it and contact me, my username is 'Nino'.

Posted by Nino on Wednesday, 25th January 2012

'Ground zero' 2nd draft

Here's an extended features list that were not in consideration upon the first draft, but will be implemented:

Number of hits per shorturl (public, no authentication needed)
Auto custom URL mode

1. Insights. They will be accessible at http://0.recgr.com/xxxx/hits, when xxxx is shorturl.

2. URL argument custom can be set to "auto" (without quotes), thus making app generate shorturl based on page's title. If for some case page title can not be found, our random shorturl will be returned instead.

That's it.

Posted by Nino on Thursday, 1st December 2011

'Ground Zero' draft

Which is a upcoming URL shortener service. It will be situated at 0.recgr.com.

It will accept longurl as:

URL argument (as an API) - 0.recgr.com/?url=xxx
Standard user input at 0.recgr.com

If passed as URL argument, it will return plain new - short - url (i.e. http://0.recgr.com/abcd).
If you wanted to grab new URL with PHP, you'd this:

// replace xxx with your full long url
$shorturl = file_get_contents(http://0.recgr.com/?url=xxx');

Returned string will be a full URL you need. So our shortened URLs will look something like http://0.recgr.com/abcd.
Furthermore, you can choose your own short url. It must be alphanumeric, but it can also contain some special non - alphanum characters. These are: hyphen (-) and underscore / lowline (_). These are limited to 100 characters length. If desired custom shorturl is already taken, it will return our 4 characters long shorturl / id. You can easily develop a mechanism to re - negotiate with app to make sure you get what you want. This is a silent process, by the way, as in you won't get a warning or notice when your desired shorturl is already taken. Of course, custom can be omitted.

Custom URL is also provided as an argument (custom) in URL, likewise:
http://0.recgr.com/?url=http://really.long/url.html&custom=some-very-interesting-stuff

URL created in this fashion would look something like:
http://0.recgr.com/some-very-interesting-stuff

Simplicity at its best.
Finally, maybe the most usable part is that you can actually just obtain data using aforementioned PHP procedure, without the need to save shorturl in your own database. You just ask it as mentioned, and it'll work.

Also, no time banking will be implemented. But it will check if address exists (aka is reachable), and if it is not, failure will be outputted. App checks if longurl is already in the database with new / short URL, and if it is, it returns that, because entries are not deletable.

Posted by Nino on Tuesday, 29th November 2011

Youtube Repeat

A Youtube Repeat (or Repeater) is what I've made today. With it, you can finally watch YouTube content in repeating mode.

Here it is:
YouTube Repeater

And that's it. Following URL patterns are accepted:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7nQELLPfYg *
http://youtu.be/E7nQELLPfYg

* = can contain further arguments, it's not really important

API
It's very easy to use YT Repeater on your site. Here's where you should point your visitors:
http://labs.recgr.com/chix/youtube-repeater.php?v=AFOcuWF4xGI

Of course, replace AFOcuWF4xGI with your movie ID.

Posted by Nino on Thursday, 17th November 2011

Hot Chicks Repository hits 100k !

Hot Chicks Repository now has more than 100k hits in 20 days. Final database structure was declared on 25th previous, even though first version was out 10 days before.

Posted by Nino on Wednesday, 16th November 2011

Hot Chix Repository finished!

I finished the Hot Chicks Repository. Took me about a month to complete. I mean, it's not 100% done, there are some things to be added, but I'll work on that when it grows.

HCR finished on 14th November @ 1 o' 45 am. New (smaller) project already has begun. You can always track what's going on (except via news) on Labs.

Posted by Nino on Monday, 14th November 2011