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A zombie by day, and a Quizlet programmer by night

So it’s spring break.

Andrew is a zombie

And I’ve been filming a zombie thriller instead of doing my homework! My bloodiness looked a lot more realistic when it was first applied, so that picture doesn’t really do it justice. Anyways, I can post a link to the video when it’s finished :).

But that’s just my day job. I’ve been working madly on Quizlet by night. I have one new big thing right now. It’s the thing you’ve all been waiting for…

Pretty URLs

Yes, it’s probably the least requested feature day-to-day. But oh the goodness of saying:

quizlet.com/set/123/

instead of

quizlet.com/set.php?id=123

Awesome, huh? The whole site has been converted to these more pleasing URLs. So ../learn/.. will do the learn page, and ../familiarize/.. will do the familiarize page. Cool.

And never fear, your old links using the old URL scheme will still work, so you don’t have to change any of your blog posts or anything like that.

Let me know if you have any problems. I changed a LOT of stuff…

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 12th, 2007 at 2:46 am by Andrew and is filed under New Features. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

47 Responses to “A zombie by day, and a Quizlet programmer by night”

  1. April 12th, 2007 at 7:54 am Dan:

    Cool, the new URLs are great :)

  2. April 12th, 2007 at 8:45 am Albert:

    Hmm, me likes the new URLs!

  3. April 12th, 2007 at 12:39 pm Vibhor (Codename = THE MEISTER).:

    The URLs are much easier to understand. I will keep looking to see the things you changed and be on the lookout for any problems.

  4. April 12th, 2007 at 2:16 pm Neil Kelty:

    Ok, I admit - I requested this…and this is something only a geek requests this stuff. But great job - I’m a big fan of short and pretty url’s.

  5. April 12th, 2007 at 3:37 pm Falda:

    EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!

  6. April 12th, 2007 at 3:38 pm Josephine:

    you’re hot.

  7. April 12th, 2007 at 3:50 pm vickor:

    love the new urls

  8. April 12th, 2007 at 3:50 pm vickor:

    :-)

  9. April 12th, 2007 at 4:12 pm Sue:

    woooooooo!

  10. April 12th, 2007 at 5:34 pm Laxboy:

    nice, job, mabye next feature should be a part of speech definintion
    idea

  11. April 12th, 2007 at 9:01 pm Nik:

    Ohhh - so that’s what your facebook pic is. I was wondering. Anyway, I can’t wait to see that video. That’ll be something…

    Oh, and the URLs are nice, too. I mean, how can you compare them to a zombie movie, right? But, still, they add a professional touch. Kudos.

  12. April 13th, 2007 at 9:38 am Slee:

    Wow thats cool now its easy to find sets without careening around looking for them in my group or at my friends’ dashboards. Thanks!

  13. April 13th, 2007 at 11:55 am cheetahpants:

    wow that really looks wierd dude

  14. April 13th, 2007 at 12:49 pm Anonymous Coward:

    All you had to do was like rename set.php to set, be like if ( !isset($_GET['id']) ) { list($blah,$_GET['id']) = explode(’/',$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); } and then be like DefaultType application/x-httpd-php in your .htaccess file. Yeah.

  15. April 13th, 2007 at 9:56 pm tbird72793@Georgia:

    You Remind me of one of my Friends , he’s a Rob Zombie Freak Though!!!

  16. April 13th, 2007 at 10:38 pm Andrew:

    Hey, Anonymous (sorry about the coward thing, default WordPress behavior :)) that looks awful nice

    But won’t Apache look for directories when you’ve got ‘/’ in your urls? Isn’t that why we have mod_rewrite?

    And the reason it was a lot of work was because I was lazy and non-standard about my urls up till now, so each link was generated straight up like “set.php?id={$id}” … now it all goes through an itemLink() function :) So I could revert in one change if I needed to.

    Yeah. Would you have done it differently?

  17. April 13th, 2007 at 10:43 pm Amelia Bedilia:

    You tell him, Andy! 8)

  18. April 15th, 2007 at 7:49 am jellybeans:

    well, personally i don’t see the point in making a new URl. why don’t the users of quizlet just take the long way of getting to where they want to go instead of a shortcut. and andrew, you spent your spring break doing this?????!!!!!! kinda boring, ay? i would’ve had fun and DO MY HOMEWORK! it must have taken forever! but its your site, i don’t care what you do with it, just keep it pretty, knowlegdable, and FREE!

  19. April 15th, 2007 at 10:52 am Anonymous Coward:

    Well, as long as there’s no directory called /set/2134 or whatever, it will be fine. You can use mod_rewrite if you want, no difference.

    You should have just used pretty urls from the beginning :D

    By the way, I was sort of surprised you don’t use a framework like CakePHP or something. Whatever, Quizlet seems to be working fine enough :)

  20. April 15th, 2007 at 2:41 pm sam:

    hi omg that freaked me out =0 i was like ahhhhhh when i saw ur face, man thats scary, the url’s are great. ;) call me.

    sike ! i cant wait to see ur video tho :)

  21. April 15th, 2007 at 2:45 pm sam:

    heyy wait zombies…… hmmmmm… interesting…
    hmmm…. will death be involved!? if their is death involved well thats just super…. put depression in it 2, not like im a fan of depression =p
    but u kno…. zombies…. muhahhaahhaha …. i mean im kool ;)

  22. April 15th, 2007 at 2:45 pm sam:

    hehhehhehe zombies……..

  23. April 15th, 2007 at 2:46 pm @*!$:

    hi :) i

  24. April 15th, 2007 at 4:05 pm dudett:

    umm dude it didnt like work for me :(
    i think u look…..

  25. April 16th, 2007 at 9:47 pm Magee:

    Okay…you look freaky as a zombie!!! lol. :roll: whats it rated? (LOL)

  26. April 18th, 2007 at 12:35 pm JP:

    The attack of the Andrews… Interesting….

  27. April 18th, 2007 at 4:10 pm -----:

    Anonomous coward:
    I am a computer programmer. I know a program to cause the computer to display the message “THEY ARE COMING” I used it as an april fools joke and i laughed my head off. It was so hilarious.
    P.s. I wanna see the zombie movie. It looks really cool. d:)

  28. April 19th, 2007 at 10:45 am mariechristine:

    wow nice pic

  29. April 19th, 2007 at 10:55 am kate:

    awesome!

  30. April 19th, 2007 at 2:32 pm Henry (Beaner96):

    COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I LIKE IT!!!!:) :]

  31. April 19th, 2007 at 2:34 pm Katie:

    :)Will u date me?:)

  32. April 19th, 2007 at 4:45 pm Jayne:

    no…date me, plz?

  33. April 19th, 2007 at 4:45 pm Katie:

    he’s mine

  34. April 19th, 2007 at 8:55 pm jasonkhalili:

    did u spill pomegranet juice on your face :p

  35. April 19th, 2007 at 8:56 pm jasonkhalili:

    date katie!!!!;)

  36. April 20th, 2007 at 6:27 pm -----:

    Guys, this is not a dating site, come on.

  37. April 21st, 2007 at 10:28 am *~Em~*:

    LOL isnt it up to HiM who he dates? why not give HiM the choice? LOL!!! y’all are funny…

  38. April 25th, 2007 at 5:42 pm emily:

    ha ha you look like something me and my friends would do… normally :0

  39. April 25th, 2007 at 10:22 pm Bismuffin:

    eegad. zombies are attacking.

  40. April 26th, 2007 at 1:04 pm buddy 101:

    nice URLs dude, you rock

  41. April 26th, 2007 at 1:06 pm buddy 101:

    date date date, that’s all you guys talk about

  42. April 27th, 2007 at 1:37 pm Monroe6:

    :roll: don’t u guys have anything else to talk about

  43. April 29th, 2007 at 1:35 pm alicia:

    COOLIO-PLUS 2 DA MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAX!!!!!!! WOO-HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  44. May 11th, 2007 at 2:10 pm sam:

    cmon he is cute tho ;P

  45. October 29th, 2007 at 4:32 am Stasigr:

    Hello, very nice site, keep up good job!
    Admin good, very good.

  46. November 4th, 2007 at 8:48 am Stasigrii:

    Hello, very nice site, keep up good job!
    Admin good, very good.

  47. May 24th, 2008 at 9:04 pm Jack:

    LoL, I google zombie and I get Andrew. Keep up the good work.

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