Further Speed Improvements

I have decided to turn on caching to full throttle.

This means that I don’t request the browser any more to check back with blummy.com (to see if something has changed in the configuration) when you click on your blummy bookmarklet. So if you have high latency times between you (e.g. when you are living on the opposite site of the planet) and blummy.com this will most probably be good for you.

The bad side — and that’s why I haven’t done this before — is that you might run into a stale copy of blummy more easily when you do some re-configuration. So here are two hints if you don’t see what you have configured:

  • Delete the blummy bookmarklet and re-drag it from the configuration page. There is a little random value that should prevent a stale copy.
  • Clear your browser cache.

I hope that you encounter a further speed increase with blummy and keep on spreading the word ;)

Create your blummlet: Wizard

Do you miss a service on blummy? Well, create it for yourself. Don’t have a clue how Javascript works? Does not matter anymore.

  • [Feature] Wizard for create your own blummlet

This should make it quite easy to create a blummlet for any service yourself.

Because space is a little limited there, I give a more detailed introduction here:

Suppose there was no blummlet for searching at Google and you wanted to create one:

  1. First, log in and go to the create a blummlet page. Open the wizard there.
  2. Open a new window or tab and navigate to the service (i.e. http://www.google.com/).
  3. Enter the query BLUMMY and submit the form. Wait for the results to appear.
  4. Click the location bar of your browser and copy the whole URL (mark the text and press Ctrl-C or Cmd-C). This would be http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=BLUMMY&btnG=Google+Search for me.
  5. Go back to the create blummlet page and type in the service name (i.e. Google) and paste the URL to the corresponding field (Ctrl-V or Cmd-V).
  6. Click “Create”.
  7. The wizard should have disappeared and most of the fields have been filled out. Now enter a description and click “Save”. Done.

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