After quite some time with the docs and google (and help on IRC from some a nice guy named Sidnicious) I finally made my app behave as it should, and now it shortens the URLs you drop on it (as was requested by one of my very few users).
UPD: It now has Growl integration! Hooray!
You can grab the new version here
Seems the last thing to do is to add some configuration (api key for instance).
Heroku announced their pricing today. As with all rails-centric hosting solutions, the price is sky high. You can get a LOT more if you just go and get Amazon EC2 and set everything up yourself. Yes, they do provide you with automatic and painless scaling, but for the price difference I would prefer the pain of scaling, once i get to the point of needing it.
Anybody needs Amazon deployment? Feel free to contact me =)
I love Objective-C.
I understood that while writing my first app, a dead simple bit.ly client. The app is a bleeding beta yet, but it works.
The thing is simple, you copy a link, run the app (from the dock, its faster to do it that way), and you get a short link in your clipboard to paste.
One of the current limitations is that it only works with URLs without parameters. It will silently fail if the URL is too complex, leaving you with an empty clipboard =)
Update: The new version handles all urls, it seems.
The todo list is as follows:
Download it: cocobit.zip
Feedback is welcome =)
They made it!
Phusion has released passenger with nginx support.
No more bloated apache installs, hooray!
I've been waiting for this since the day passenger was first released.
UPD: well, it has some issues as of now, but I'm sure it's all gonna be fixed soon enough!