Tue, 16 Mar 2004

Mar 16, 2004, 15:22 [home/webdesign/perl_scripts/up_and_coming]
MP3 Database Script

I’ve written a MP3 database script much like the service that used to be available to artists at MP3.com. It manages streaming, downloading, song history, and hopefully soon I’ll add features like automatic purchasing via PayPal.com, a ‘play all songs on this album’ feature, radio station options, and more.

I haven’t actually packaged this script for sale yet, as it’s been used only on JasonSilver.com for my own personal recordings. I’d be interested in hearing feedback from potential users of this script as I consider adding it to the list at Intelliscript.net.

~Jason

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Mon, 18 Nov 2002

Nov 18, 2002, 19:31 [home/webdesign/perl_scripts/up_and_coming]
Blog Script

You like this blog script? I downloaded and installed a slightly modified version of Blosxom (don’t really like that name) and wrote my own posting script. Blosxom reads directories and sub-directories looking for text files, checks their date, sorts them by category (directories) and most recent date. It’s a small, very useful script— though a little obtuse in the traditional CGI perl script sense and therefore hard to modify.
When designing the posting script I wanted it to work seamlessly with Blosxom without having to change Blosxom, so that other Blosxom users could incorporate it into their sites. It works pretty well, with the only problem being when directory names have numbers in them. (This gets the date listing feature of Blosxom confused). I don’t think I’ll be able to work around that aside from outlawing number directories.

If you want the script, let me know. I think I’ll give it away for free.
~Jason


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Nov 18, 2002, 19:31 [home/webdesign/perl_scripts/up_and_coming]
AutoFollowup Is Changing

I’ve had a small breakthrough with AutoFollowUp, and I hope to release the latest version very soon. I’m embarrassed to admit that I didn’t realise a file became unlocked when it is closed. It makes sense now, but I never thought of it, and I didn’t want to leave a file open too long! Hopefully this will fix the problem someof you have been wondering about— namely people getting multiple copies of the same email on VERY heavily trafficked sites (we’re talking 10s of 1000s.) For the rest of us, the other bad thing that could happen is loss of data. (Sorry)

And in the same news, the script will soon have the ability to check any email account for subscription/unsubscription requests!
~Jason


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Nov 18, 2002, 19:31 [home/webdesign/perl_scripts/up_and_coming]
One other Thing

Something else: I created a feature in the post script which allows you to put a link on any page on your site with an action tag in it for responding to a page. So if you have a site with articles, put the link “Respond to this page” and allow users to interact with your document. It’s a neat way of multiplying community and interactivity on your site.
Try it out at getChurch.org.
~Jason


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