I’ve just finished a “public beta” version of Friendscribe.com, which is a web-based chat for keeping in touch with your friends. The idea is that chat messages are stored in a database, so you don’t need to have your browser always open to see what’s going on – just log back in later and see if someone has said anything while you were gone.
Try it yourself at http://www.friendscribe.com.
By the way, the site is powered by CodeIgniter – a PHP development framework you definitely should try out if you’re into PHP web development!
Just thought to post a brief and shamelessly positive note on my current hosting provider, WebFaction. It was actually their one-click WordPress installation procedure that got me playing around with blogging, which then lead to founding this blog. I ran into it when searching for suitable site to host Django-powered software, which lead me to this comparison of Django-friendly web hosts.
Now this probably wouldn’t be worth noting otherwise, but WebFaction is the only provider so far (leave a comment if you find others), that fulfilled all my stringent requirements for a hosting provider:
- Support for PHP, Ruby on Rails and Django (this alone is hard without virtual servers)
- Support for MySQL and PostgreSQL (to suit the daily mood)
- No arbitary limits on subdomains and domains within plans (it’s not like they cost anything to the provider)
- Starting cost must be below $10 a month (I’d rather scale up when I actually have traffic, not beforehand)
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A lot of people are asking me (of course I have to make this stuff up because I don’t have any readers) how I’ve done the menu bar (the horizontal thing containing static pages and categories, just below the name of this blog). This is a good question, because the menu bar is actually widget-ready, so I don’t have to change it when I add new categories. “But how have you avoided the widget headers and still remained strictly XHTML compliant?”, I hear some of my imaginary readers say. Well, I’ll tell you how.
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