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Linkwalla 0.7 is live
A new version of linkwalla is available for download this morning. This is the first release since August.
What is linkwalla? Linkwalla is way to share interesting web pages you see, or just to keep track of them for yourself. It's sort of a mini-blog for links. You generate an RSS feed of the links you've saved, that includes the link and a short description. It's also compatible with del.icio.us, so you can save your links to del.icio.us at the same time as adding them to your site.
What's new in linkwalla 0.7? Monthly archives are now created. Previous versions of linkwalla saved your links in one big list. This works for a while, but at time goes on the list gets unwieldy. With monthly archives the front page shows your last 20 links, and there links to monthly archives, so I can see all of the links I added in September, for example, on one page.
The other reason for moving to monthly archives, is that the links are saved in monthly XML files, instead of one big honking XML file. This means linkwalla won't slow down over time. I hadn't experienced any slowness in 0.7, but I knew that eventually as added hundreds of links, the file would slow down.
One downside to changing the way files are saved is that this release is not backwards compatible with linkwalla 0.6. I guess that's why it's not a 1.0 release yet. However converting the old linkwalla.xml file into monthly archives is pretty easy - it took me about 5 minutes.
It's been great using PHP again, I love being able to figure out how this stuff works.