Axehomeyg^2.0

Shaun Inman is the man. He’s got a cool csszengarden entry AND he developed a fantastic webstats package with Mint. I, however, have wanted a more lightweight solution that I can use for each instance where I can’t justify the price for a site (such as this one, that actually costs me money!).

I tried in vain for weeks to find Weed, I remembered that the Weed package (a Mint-copy in Rails) was lambasted for being inferior, but, I thought it was a good effort by good people, and now its barely visible on the web! I finally found the sucker, and I fixed up all the bugs (I love debugging half-working relics and gettin’ them working) so I’m using it for my own sites now.

As good as it is for a quick solution, I would have coded it vastly different, using some inline C code, and various other methods of optimization. As such, I have begun coding an alternative which is coming along nicely. If anyone wants to help me beta test, just shoot me an email and we’ll set something up. Ditto, if you can’t get the latest version of Weed working, lemme know, I’ll try and help. I may even post a tutorial on it, if its not illegal (I know as much about software legality as a streetbum). Their SVN repository is still up, but I can’t find anything about why their not runnin’ anymore. Maybe they ran into efficiency issues of running an open-beta?

Update: Before I forget, I added a PhpCompat.ip2long function in my PHP Compatibility Plugin for Rails. Just about every self-tracking php app out there uses that method, so if you’re trying to port any of those apps, try using my plugin!