Scott Yang's Playground

One of the best news today — Automattic acquires Gravatar. From the new owner of Gravatar, Automattic‘s Matt Mullenweg: So we worked out an arrangement to transfer the code and service from Tom to Automattic, and here we are. Here’s what we’ve done so far over the past few days: We transferred the Rails application [...]

Sorry I have not been updating this blog. There are simply way too many commitments in life for me to maintain “yet-another-blog”, so I think I might eventually fold FuCoder.com after two years of on and off writing. I will continue to publish code snippets at our personal blog, Scott Yang’s Playground, but even that [...]

This forum post identified the problem, and while I have not get around to look at it, Filipe has provided the fix. So there you go — Permalink Redirect 0.6.3, now with category feed URL fixed. A while ago I have also fixed an issue with Gravatar Cache, when Gravatar2 was released. Gravatar2′s blue’ish logo [...]

Tom from Gravatar has releaed the new site as public beta. It has a much cleaner design than the previous one, and it is great that people can sign up gravatar and update their pictures again. Gravatar serving is running lighttpd + PHP, but the admin interface is developed in Ruby on Rails. I have [...]

Went to the Gravatar website this morning, and saw the message its funder Tom Werner has put on: … In order to handle the rapidly increasing load, I’ve had to experiment with a variety of server architectures. I ask for your patience during the coming weeks as I test out a few setups. The new [...]

Last couple of nights I have hacked a generic URL-based cache for Gravatar, the globally recognized avatar. If you have been blogging or reading other people’s blog, “gravatar” would not be foreign to you, as it has been implemented on many blog sites of various platforms. Gravatar Cache is an implementation to cache both positive [...]

Pay your bill on-time! … especially when there are a lot of people relying on your service! I noticed that on Saturday, Gravatar.com, the service that provides global-recognised avatars from the hash of your email, went off line and can no longer be contacted. DNS won’t resolve, so I fired up WHOIS to check what [...]

I have recently installed two WordPress plugins to slightly enhance the visual of comments. Gravatars – uses the globally recognised avatar to display a 48×48 image next to each comment to identify its poster. IP to Nation – displays a little country flag next to the comment poster’s name, guessed from its incoming IP address. [...]