I’d like to share with you one of the splendorous features I have the scrumptious joy of using on this site.

The “accesslog” page here is one of my favorite files to inker around with, but I was kinda bummed by how long I had to look at a “loading” screen every time I requested a list of IPs that were resolved to hostnames (on the fly - at every request). So, I now have an AJAXified button that resolves the IP’s to hostnames without changing the page or showing a “loading screen”. The button sets off a chain of events that replace each IP on the page with its corresponding hostname (as far as it can be resolved)

You can see the feature in action here.

Enter a list of IPs (line-break separated) and resolve them to hostnames. It’s nothing special, but you’ll see the nice effect when you have a list of 10-20 IPs.

Update: Wrote a version with more XML involved.

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In other news, the official UNOFFICIAL thefandom dot com podcast is now listed on Apple’s iTunes directory.