Olark is a lightweight method to chat with visitors to your website using your existing instant messaging client. Visitors to your website appear as buddies on your Buddy list, their messages to you appear as IMs.
If I was really slick, I would have written a log file handler that was smart enough to rotate logs when the computer was running out of space. But I think I’ll let logrotate take care of that.
I have posted our new log file handler, which can recover if files disappear during operation (i.e. are rotated or frantically deleted) and will automatically rotate logs daily.
Now I can safely let logrotate loose on our Hab.la logs.
Ok, so I put in some time and reworked how the JavaScript handles events, and some important pipelines. What does this mean to you as a hab.la user?
It means that we are almost ready for user contributed plugins :-) [and to roll out a lot of nice UI enhancements]. I.e. would you like to add sound alerts to hab.la, or perhaps keep track of hab.la usage in google analytics, or maybe you just want animated smiley faces :-). Well regardless of your desired enhancement, the new architecture will make it easy to extend hab.la for your own needs. Yes.. We still need to write documentation, don’t worry it’s on the todo list. But, until then, I’ve added some simple, but useful additional functionality.
A website owner can now PUSH a url to their visitor, in your IM client just type: !push url or as a more concrete example !push http://www.google.com. This will cause the visitor to be redirected to http://www.google.com while still maintaining their hab.la session.
;-) and ;-) are now made bold :-), as the prequel to the neat input parsing to come.
There’s a lot of cool stuff, right around the corner.
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