Some nerdy stuff towards the bottom (what's new)
Listen:
This RAC Remix of Kings of Leon's Use Somebody popped up in my iTunes. Quite enjoyable:
Watch:
Someone posted this classic from Tiny Toons. I'm pretty sure I recall running home from school to watch this show and thereby discovering They Might Be Giants.
Learned:
Building a direct message twitter bot on Google App Engine (GAE) that runs by checking the emails sent via twitter DMs isn't possible since GAE won't check ports outside of 80 and 443. This was a big deal, since I'd been planning to try out GAE for a new project. Oh well, back to CodeIgniter on my shared host.
Speaking of which, getting mod_rewrite for clean URLs in codeIgniter on Site5 involved a bunch of attempts that finally worked out when I went and copied the .htaccess file form Drupal and used it as a guide instead of various posts from other parts of the internet. Here's what I ended up with (I think the only real difference is the [QSA] part...):
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
#Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
#such as an image or css document, if this isn?^?^?t true it sends the
#request to index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/?$1 [L,QSA]
#Removes access to the system folder by users.
#Additionally this will allow you to create a System.php controller,
#previously this would not have been possible.
#?^?^?system?^?^? can be replaced if you have renamed your system folder.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
# If we don?^?^?t have mod_rewrite installed, all 404?^?^?s
# can be sent to index.php, and everything works as normal.
# Submitted by: ElliotHaughin
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
