OK – I finished my version of FOAAS, I mean FOASS. It’s much prettier, flexible and to the best of my informal testing, it is mostly bug free 🙂
try it here
Bug List
- /wp/ on the homepage URL. This is caused by this being a sub-domain of JasonDeArte.com where I have a rewrite .htaccess that poorly sends root traffic to the WordPress install in /wp/
- Naked commands without a trailing “/:something”. I.e.
/off/will work (and insert random names),/offwill not & instead return a 404. I consider this a low priority bug & will probably just set up a 404 page with belligerent language.
It supports all the currently listed (2013.07.21) commands, as well as a few more commands. Most were suggested by my co-workers.
- /given/:from
- /eat/:name/:from
- /bowl/:name/:from
- /bag/:name/:from
- /essex/:name/:from
- /london/:name/:from
- /ity/:name/:from
- /lawn/:name/:from
If you request it in json or plaintext, it will return it as json or plaintext, respectively.
If you leave out values, it will use random names from a list of co-workers and friends that I’m sure that would find this hilarious. Oh, if you’re name is in the list and you don’t find it funny, it’s not You-you, it’s that other guy with the same name. Sorry 😉
I also hooked up Google Analytics (or at least I think I did, I’ll find out later when the reports are available) so that I can more easily track which links are the more popular ones. Awesome discovery: my hosting provider, Dreamhost, has a panel setting that allows you to set the analytics code in the domain configuration – so I don’t even have to put in a google web-bug to track it all. Which is awesome if anyone were to actually use the JSON API, because I could then actually track it without having to rely on client side JavaScript.
I wish I had more time to hook up Google App Engine to run it, but time on the weekends are limited.
-Jason De Arte
