Brilliant.
More than 6 months ago, I’ve launch a very, very simple tool to find a users or pages Facebook ID. I’ve done that with PHP and then forgot about it.
2 months later, in FriendFeed, someone needed to find their Facebook ID and instead of showing them Graph API, I remembered my ID Finder and send the link. Someone in the comments said I needed this ID Finder as a standalone web site. I didn’t see the need but then someone else offered me “fbidfinder.com” domain name and I was like “well, it can’t hurt, could it?”.
So I’ve rewritten the old tool and opened FBIDFinder.com. I’ve used Silex, a light PHP framework, with its template engine. I don’t know why I did that. I feel stupid. Why, you may ask. Because I didn’t need it. I didn’t need any server-side languages.
A week ago I changed my server and realized FBIDFinder.com is not working anymore because this new server (which had the old IP of my old, PHP supported, server) didn’t have PHP installed. While fixing it, I’ve hated myself for using PHP for this kind of tool. It was and is unnecessary. Today, in this beautiful sunday, I’ve rewritten this simple tool again. In 5 minutes. Without any server-side language. That, I feel, is the right way.
Now it’s running on Amazon’s S3 and it works fast. Really fast. Why? Because it’s just plain old HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
I told you this story because,
- I needed to write something on this blog,
- To warn you. Do not use server-side languages when you don’t need them. It’s silly and stupid. It used your servers resources and you can need those resources. Unless there is some kind of business logic you need to keep as a secret, simple apps are better with client-side technologies. That’s in my opinion, of course.
Last night I was bored again so I did a little something.
A browser extension.
A browser extension for adding FriendFeed to Google+.
Nothing fancy, just an iframe, but works. It’s all that matters, right? If it works or not.
I’m starting to make no sense.
Screenshot (click to enlarge your penis or screenshot. not sure.):
Click here to get it. Works with Firefox, Chrome and even some versions of IE. Crossrider currently doesn’t support Safari, so no Safari support for now.
Also, there are two other Google+ similar to this, one is Google+Twitter and other one is Google+Facebook. (Do I need to explain what they do?)
Update: This plugin wasn’t working for a long time now and no one really said anything so this means no one is using it. But I’ve updated it anyway. It should be working as excepted now.
Couple days ago I’ve tweeted this:
If a TV show has both British and American versions, always go with the British version. Always.
— Fırat Batuhan İçöz (@batuhanicoz) June 29, 2011
And couple minutes ago I felt like posting this here.
Fin.
I always wanted to blog, but for some weird reason I can’t. I’m a teenager, I tweet, I post on Facebook and I tweet. That is my nature, not blogging. Can’t do anything about it.
I tried, I really did. Last time I failed, I thought about microblogging and decided to do a microblog here, didn’t work out because it’s meaningless.
So from now on, I’ll be microblogging in English and I’ll use Google+ for the job.
This blog stays online so I can blog when I want to. Also, I’ll update my about me page regularly.
Click here for my Google profile, if you’re a Google+ user this link will redirect you to my Google+ profile and if you’re not, you can just ask for an invite in the comments.
