I am really excited about the release of PrepHub. This release is a public beta with no limits, just be wary there may still be some crud around the edges.
PrepHub is a place where test questions can be shared, and people can improve their test scores in a collaborative environment. Currently the site is focused on providing users with a ton of community driven practice questions. As the site matures we plan on adding many more collaborative features.
Below is some of the awesomeness of PrepHub:- Tons of SAT and GMAT questions (LSAT coming). More added everyday by users like you.
- Realtime statistics on your strengths and weaknesses.
- The ability to track your improvement over time.
- Comments from users for tricks on answering questions
- Ability to favorite questions so you can come back later.
- Take quizzes only selecting certain sections you wish to practice on.
- More on the way!
I think PrepHub is going to be a great site, but it can only happen with participation from its users. Let the collaboration begin.
Well I haven’t given this project much love lately. I took a little time out this weekend and stabilized it (a little) and added the much needed feature of specifying the database url and port.
It is still missing lots of features, (all files and views are still readonly) but i would rather release it then sit on it.
You can download it at CouchFS download page.
For those who don’t know…
CouchFS is a MacFUSE file system that allows you access to CouchDB databases and files. Using CouchFS will allow you to mount your CouchDB system and edit/browse CouchDB files like any typical file on your OS X file system.
Instead of doing something somewhat necessary in my life. I was so intrigued by Fuse in general and MacFuse in particular, I rolled up CouchDB into a MacFuse filesystem.
Friday I saw Amit Singh’s Google Tech Talk on MacFuse and it was really fascinating. He not only showed off MacFuse but went into the history of filesystems.
The MacFuse code comes with a couple example applications, but they are written in Objective-C, so instead of looking for a language that I understand I decided to learn Objective-C. Long story short MacFuse makes it really easy to make your own filesystem.
CouchFS is still very raw (mainly because my understanding of Objective-C is minimal) so I don’t have an app ready to distribute. But the source is available on CouchFS google code page. Patches/Help are encouraged. Hopefully I will have an app ready next week.
I just released a little YouTube mashup called AlarmTube.
Basically what it does is it uses YouTube videos as alarm ringtones. The coolest thing about it is that it uses natural language parsing to set the alarm time (thanks chronic ). The youtube video selection support was provided by the ruby youtube gem, and the it of course uses the ruby on rails framework, which was probably overkill for this project.
Check it out at http://alarmtube.highimpactnoise.com. Trust me it is perfect for a nice thirty minute nap. Just type in 30 minutes for the alarm time and choose a YouTube video.
If you have any suggestions just email me as always at tkofol@gmail, or post a comment.
I recently needed to redirect all the traffic from http://www.landscapesurvey.com to http://landscapesurvey.com. This was necessary because I purchased an SSL certificate that only goes with http://landscapesurvey.com and didn’t want the ugly warning message coming up if my users were using the www. version of my site.
What I consequently found out is that google is penalizing for duplicate content and considered having both the www and non www sites as duplicate content.
So after searching the internet I found that to remove the www from your url you need to put the following in your apache conf file.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
