Dave Pearson

Hack: Random profile page link generator

Inspired by yesterday’s little hack I got to thinking that it might be fun to have some way of pointing people at random aspects of your profile (random page of art, random page of clothing, random page of favourites, random page of people on your watchlist being the obvious ones). To make it work, to make it so it approaches being easy to use by most people, it needed some sort of link generator.

Some hacking about with PHP later and here it is: The RedBubble random pages from your profile link generator thingy

I’ve tried as best as I can to document how it works and how you can use it over on the page so I won’t write any more about that here. However, if you’re stuck, or find it confusing, or just need a hand with something, feel free to ask here.

To give you an idea of what it ends up doing: View a random page of my art

  • Bobbie

    Bobbie, 3 months ago

    Cool Dave, it works well.

  • Dave Pearson

    Dave Pearson in reply to Bobbie’s comment, 3 months ago

    Thanks Bobbie. Glad to hear it works for someone else. ;-)

  • DuncanW

    DuncanW, 2 months ago

    Dave, this is fascinating stuff. I’d be a geek too, if I could be bothered ;-)

  • Dave Pearson

    Dave Pearson in reply to DuncanW’s comment, 2 months ago

    Hehe. Geeks are lazy too. It’s just that we’ll spend a day writing something to automate a 5min job. ;)

  • DuncanW

    DuncanW, 2 months ago

    Another from my yet-to-be-published What’s in a Name, Mate?:

    Countegany v

    To use a computer for a task that could be carried out at least 3.1415927 times faster using a pencil and paper. The amount of time wasted on Countegany worldwide would be sufficient to allow the cows to come home, the long way.

  • Dave Pearson

    Dave Pearson in reply to DuncanW’s comment, 2 months ago

    I’m reminded of The Meaning of Liff.

  • DuncanW

    DuncanW, 2 months ago

    Precisely! It’s intended as an Aussie version. I did contact the Adams estate, to see if they wanted to licence the Liff title (Liff Down Under), but they said no :-(

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