August 2008
2 posts
Commands on steroids. Say what?
In the last few weeks, I’ve been quietly releasing a whole new world of command functionality, commands that have arguments and options. If you’re familiar with the unix command line then you probably understand what options do already. Arguments place values at differents points in a URL. A good example of this is the qshow command which takes you to a specific user command page. You...
Sharing Your Commands
In case you haven’t noticed, there were some major changes released in the past months related to how we share commands. Back in the day when you saw a command you liked, you simply copied it and presto, you had your own unique copy. The problem with this was that as our command repository grew, it became cluttered with so many duplicate commands. Searching for new commands became a pain....
April 2008
4 posts
Favicons!
It’s the little things.. We’ve pushed out a small update that shows favicons next to each command based on the command’s domain, if it has one. Here’s a screenshot:
Added Installation Instruction for IE7 and Opera
While Internet Explorer and Opera are not likely to be the preferrred browsers for the Queriac userbase, you never know. To see the new instructions, log in and visit the settings page.
Added OpenSearch Plugin for Mozilla Browsers
These days, we’re working on making Queriac easier to set up and use. The latest effort in this regard is an OpenSearch installer for Firefox and Camino browsers. This means you can add Queriac to your browser’s Search Bar with with a single button-click. Here’s what it looks like installed on Firefox 3 for Mac.. To install the search plugin, log in and visit the settings page....
New Tagging and Search Commands
Some new commands have been added that will make your queriac experience all the more efficient and enjoyable. You can now search your commands by keyword or url! And for the more geeky, we’re allowing regular expression searching as well. Example: qs google Searches keywords and urls for commands containing google. You can replace tags for a group of commands Example: qt imdb,yhm movie...
March 2008
2 posts
New Feature: Duplicate a Command
Ever wanted to create a command based on an existing one, and found it annoying to copy all the details of the existing command over to the new one? Well, friend, today marks the end of such annoyances. All the command pages now have a ‘Duplicate’ command option. Think of it as a “Save as..” feature.
New Feature: Stealth Queries
Do you have a command with queries exposed to the public, and sometimes wish you could run a private query or two through it, without having to edit the command? Examples of such queries might be things like “why do i suck so bad?”, or “how to quietly overthrow the patriarchy”, or the classic “i like big butts and i cannot lie”… If so, the simple new...
January 2008
5 posts
Tagging-related Fixes and Features
* Private commands are no longer showing up on /user/commands/tag/xyz pages. Phew! * Tags with strange characters are no longer breaking the URLs (namely periods) * Tag cloud has been improved * Multiple tags can now be specified when searching for commands. e.g. /user/commands/tag/xyx+123+foo
New feature: Faster Command Creation
GET parameters can now be passed to Queriac’s create a new command page to auto-populate the form’s fields. The allowed parameters are: name, keyword, url, description, and tags. Using this new feature I was able to create a new bookmarklet (tentatively keyworded ‘spawn’) that works much like my delicious posting bookmarklet. It grabs the current page’s title, URL,...
A few minor updates
I found a little time tonight to make a few updates, both cosmetic and functional. Here’s a synopsis: The CSS bug that was making header links sometimes annoyingly difficult to click is now fixed. The HTTP referrer is now stored with all queries. I can’t remember why I wanted to do this in the first place, but I’m sure I had a good reason. Hmm.. The command editing page now has...
Fixed: Tagging bug
Tags were getting saved as one long string, rather than individual tags. This is now fixed. In other news, I lowered the minimum username length to one (1), so for those of you who haven’t yet created accounts, you may want to pick a short one for ease of typing. They won’t last!
Hello World. Meet Queriac.
Hi peoples. I’m working on a nifty little Ruby on Rails app called Queriac. Now that I’m finally bringing a few users into the fold, I figured I’d better put up this tumblelog to keep everyone abreast of its development progress. To get started using Queriac, head over to http://queri.ac and create an account. It ‘s free/easy/awesome. -Zeke