Category Archives: Ping-O-Matic

Ping-o-matic

Ping-O-Matic Fun

By Dougal | Published: January 13, 2006

The problem with running a service like Ping-O-Matic is that sometimes you have to send emails like this:

To: [...deleted...]
Subject: Re: pingomatic

> Hi!
>
> I have tried to ping pingomatic for about 2 days now
> but it will not work for me. . [...]

Also posted in Blogs, Community, Fun, Services, Spam | Tagged pingomatic | 24 Comments

Hot off the presses is the release of WordPress 1.5.1. There is a Changelog available on the Codex which gives some highlights, a full list of submitted bugfixes on the mosquito bug tracker, and even more pedantic changeset details in the repository.

Here are some of the main new features/fixes that matter to me:

Database query optimizations
Improved Conditional GET support (I lobbied a lot for this)
Fixes for plugin menu hooks
Admin UI improvements
Extended ping support

One thing that’s neat about the extended ping support: For each server in your “Update Services” list, WordPress will first attempt an extended ping, and if that fails it will fall back to a standard ping (we aren’t the first to do this). [...]

Also posted in Blogs, WordPress | Tagged PHP, pingomatic, plugin, RSS, Web, WordPress | 10 Comments

Happy Birthday, Ping-O-Matic!

By Dougal | Published: April 20, 2005

Ping-O-Matic is one year old today. To think that my lowly little service pinger, originally created to help me gain an edge on BlogShares, is all grown up and sending out approximately 1 million pings per day! We’ve sent out pings on behalf of over a half-million individual blogs, and over 85 thousand in just the last week.

I haven’t been able to give PoM as much attention lately as I’d like. I still have lots of ideas that I want to implement, but it’s just hard to find time to do it, between the dayjob, the new house, spending time with the wife and kids, and preparing for the upcoming baby. [...]

Also posted in Blogs, Community, Services | Tagged pingomatic, Web | 6 Comments