[Lift] Re: Proposed URL Shortening widget

2009-04-14 Thread Timothy Perrett
Hey Jorge, I reflected on the uses of this - your actually right, this would be super useful. I know your into your math algorithms and stuff... any thoughts on a system to keep URL's short? Cheers, Tim On Apr 2, 8:48 pm, Jorge Ortiz wrote: > What about easily turning any lift app into a url s

[Lift] Re: Proposed URL Shortening widget

2009-04-05 Thread Darren Hague
ESME is an open-source Enterprise-focussed microblogging system written in Scala on Lift. Please see http://blog.esme.us/ for more details, and http://incubator.apache.org/esme to get to the source code etc. Cheers, Darren (ESME Tech Lead) On Apr 5, 2:36 am, Chad Skinner wrote: > > We do it in

[Lift] Re: Proposed URL Shortening widget

2009-04-04 Thread Chad Skinner
> > We do it in ESME. It's 1 class (the model) and 1 object. > What is ESME? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe

[Lift] Re: Proposed URL Shortening widget

2009-04-03 Thread David Pollak
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Jorge Ortiz wrote: > What about easily turning any lift app into a url shortener service? > > Wouldn't be too hard... We do it in ESME. It's 1 class (the model) and 1 object. > > > Granted, some services (bit.ly) add statistics, visualization, > conversation

[Lift] Re: Proposed URL Shortening widget

2009-04-02 Thread Timothy Perrett
Hey Jorge, Im not sure I 100% follow what your saying - are you proposing creating a widget that actually has a shortening algorithm? IMO, isnt it better to not re-invent the wheel and use an existing service? (take advantage of their short domain names etc) What are your thoughts on the blockin

[Lift] Re: Proposed URL Shortening widget

2009-04-02 Thread Jorge Ortiz
What about easily turning any lift app into a url shortener service? Wouldn't be too hard... Granted, some services (bit.ly) add statistics, visualization, conversation tracking, etc. which aren't just url shortening. --j On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Tim Perrett wrote: > > Guys, > > I've b