geek ramblings » Ping-O-Matic http://dougal.gunters.org Random musings of a Southern geek Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:24:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.2-alpha en Ping-O-Matic Fun http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2006/01/13/ping-o-matic-fun http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2006/01/13/ping-o-matic-fun#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:27:25 +0000 Dougal http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2006/01/13/ping-o-matic-fun 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. [...]
]]> 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. My site is
> http://www.[...xxxxxx...].com/
>
> Do you have any idea of why I can not ping your site
> anymore?

Because we don’t want pings from porn sites?

> Have a nice day!

Thanks, you too! :)

–
Dougal Campbell
http://dougal.gunters.org/

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]]> http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2006/01/13/ping-o-matic-fun/feed WordPress 1.5.1 Released http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/05/09/wordpress-151-released http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/05/09/wordpress-151-released#comments Mon, 09 May 2005 20:57:31 +0000 Dougal http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=581 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). [...]

]]> 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). In case you aren’t sure what the distinction is, a standard ping just sends your blog’s name and URL. The extended ping also sends your RSS feed URL and can support the idea of separate “home page” and “blog” addresses. And of course, we’ve updated Ping-O-Matic to support extended pings, as well.

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]]> http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/05/09/wordpress-151-released/feed Happy Birthday, Ping-O-Matic! http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/04/20/happy-birthday-ping-o-matic http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/04/20/happy-birthday-ping-o-matic#comments Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:45:50 +0000 Dougal http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/04/20/happy-birthday-ping-o-matic 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. [...]

]]> 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. But I keep hoping that someday soon I’ll be able to spend some time adding some of the new features I have in mind.

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