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Everybody needs a personal "status" page
Merlin Mann | Oct 19 2005
Lots of sites have status pages. I wish more people had them.
Yeah, status pages for people should be more popular, and I also wish they were a bit easier to make and maintain. It would be a nifty way to display information like:
I've long had a Lazy Web wish for a little perl script that could That way you could maintain a bunch of easy lists and the script does all the building and posting automagically. You could fake this with a blogging tool, but I like the idea of having it all updated in the background. Got a good personal status page? Seen one you liked? What would you post on yours? Have a fast trick for helping noobs make and post status points to the interweb? Care to pick up my Lazy Web gauntlet? 72 Comments
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 If you're going to use...Submitted by Simon (not verified) on October 20, 2005 - 4:36am.
If you're going to use Andrew's script, please change markdown_file_results.php to read:
$filename = $_GET[theFile]; if preg_match('[^A-Za-z0-9.-_]', $filename) { exit ("Invalid filename supplied"); } $fp = fopen($filename, 'r'); $my_text = fread($fp, filesize($filename)); fclose($fp); $my_html = Markdown($my_text); ?> The original version could allow bad people to read files they shouldn't. This is particularly important if you're putting this up on the internet. Props to Andrew for putting useful code in the world and saving us from having to do it ourselves. :) » POSTED IN:
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