I’ve updated urlmarkr so it is now working again on Rails 1.2.3. I have also re-written the authentication system using acts_as_authenticated, added support for snap.com thumbnails and fix lots of small bugs and problems.

You can grab a tarball of the latest SVN trunk or browse the repository.

I hope to have a live demo up and running shortly, however I’m having a few issues with the load on my VPS at the moment with some of my other projects and I get the feeling I’m going to have to move to a dedicated server rather soon. If you happen to know of any good, reliable and cheap dedicated hosting providers please let me know!

I’ve just released the first “stable” version of urlmarkr. I’ve re-written the multi user code to allow the display of public bookmarks to users who aren’t logged in, added migration support so now MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite3 can be used as the database backend and I’ve also updated the everything to work with the latest release of Ruby on Rails including updating Rails Engines to 1.1.4.

I’ve also added some new icons using Mark James’ excellent Silk Icons. In the next release I hope to add support for themes using CSS and the ability to import from sources other than del.icio.us. I’ve also been playing around with the YouTube Library for Ruby. With three or four lines of code it’s possible to pull information regarding a video, including it’s description and tags directly from YouTube into the New Bookmark form. The code is currently in SVN if anyone wishes to have a look. You’ll need to have the YouTube library gem installed for this to work.

If anyone has any ideas or suggestions for future releases please let me know! For now you can download version 0.1 from RubyForge.

I finally got around to getting some more work done on urlmarkr. I have added support for thumbnail previews of each bookmark using the excellent websnapr as a source for the images. You will be able to enable or disable this feature according to your taste.

I’ve also got around to moving the website back to Trac after finally getting it up and running on Dreamhost thanks to this guide from Nathaniel Tucker.

I’ve created a plugin to display your Jabber presence in the Typo sidebar. This plugin is based on the AIM presence plugin and uses status bot at njs.netlab.cz.

To install simply extract the archive to your sidebar directory and go in the sidebar section of Typo admin and you will be able to drag and drop the Jabber Presence item onto your active items. You will also need to allow jabstatus@njs.netlab.cz to see your status in your jabber client.

You can download the plugin below, please leave a comment if you come across any issues.

jabberpresence.tar.gz - 634 bytes

As of today I’ve started moving my sites over to Dreamhost! I had been running everything on a Sun Blade 100 using Ubuntu for SPARC, hosted on my cable connection but the uplink was crippled to 512 kbit/s. My blog is first to move, and also moves to a new domain, darxr.net. All old links should redirect fine. I’ve also upgraded my blog to Typo 4 . Everything went pretty smoothly except for a few MySQL problems which were solved by using a fresh database schema and importing the old articles from the command line.

I’ll be moving over the urlmarkr site and also migrating the SVN repository to Dreamhost in the next few days. I have already moved the site to Drupal and again all seems fine. urlmarkr also moves to it’s own domain, urlmarkr.org.

The main reason I’ve choose Dreamhost is their Ruby on Rails support seems pretty good and the control panel is NOT CPanel. I can’t stand using CPanel, its UI is terrible. I am a command line user most of the time, but when I have to use a web based interface, CPanel is one that I’d just rather avoid.

If you interested in signing up for Dreamhost, you can signup for either the L1 (20GB disk, 1TB bw), L2 (40GB disk, 1.2TB bw) or L3 (60GB disk, 1.6TB bw) packages for only $9.90 for the first month with all setup fee’s waived and a free domain name! Simply enter the code DARXR in the “Promo Code” box on the signup page to take advantage of the discount.

url.markr is a personal bookmark manager written in Ruby on Rails. It has support for tagging of bookmarks, RSS feeds of links for each tag, inline editing of bookmarks, and tag autocompletion on entering a new bookmark.

This version adds support for importing your existing del.icio.us bookmarks, either all at once or any number of your most recent posts. Initial search functionality has also been added.

Please let me know what you think of this release and report any bug or problems you find. You can find all the details at the “project homepage”:http://urlmarkr.org/

I’ve updated url.markr, the bookmark manger written in Ruby on Rails to include support for importing bookmarks from del.icio.us. There is still some tidying up to be completed and some options to be added but it works!

Instructions on getting the code from SVN are on the project homepage