At the moment I’m in between paid work and have been using my time to generally enjoy life but to also improve my skills. I’m all about the skills.
As an act of deliberate practice to hone my skills with web-application development and to deepen my understanding of the Rails framework I’ve been adding to my collection of nano-apps.
A while back I had an idea to develop a URL shortener just to see how little code would be required but decided the world really didn’t need another one. With time on my hands over Easter & the curiosity of a technology entusiast I just started hacking and had a functioning prototype within a short time-frame.
I wasn’t keen on parting with my shiny pennies for a domain name considering my lack of income but I’d written the code and thought I’d may as well go the whole hog and get my work into the wild.
So, without further ado, I present io.gd . As usual, code is available on GitHub.
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Nice one Steve. If I could suggest a possible improvement, if you enter the same address twice, it gives you two different shortened URLs – perhaps it might be better to reuse the old one?
Cheers for the feedback Cluke. At the moment there is no checking if the submitted URL has already been shortened… Something to think about for the next release!
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