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title: "Screencast: Firefly URL shortener in less than 2.5 minutes"
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slug: screencast-firefly-url-shortener-in-less-than-25-minutes
created_at: 2010-07-12
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Firefly is a light-weight URL Shortener app. It's written in Ruby/Sinatra and can be easily deployed to Heroku, [as I've written before][1]. This screencast illustrates how easy it really is to setup Firefly and give it a spin. Did I mention that both Firefly and Heroku can be used for free?

<object width="620" height="349"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13997287&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13997287&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="620" height="349"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/13997287">Firefly URL shortener in less than 2.5 minutes</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/ariejan">Ariejan de Vroom</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>

[1]: https://ariejannet.local/2010/06/06/setup-your-own-firefly-url-shortener-in-25-minutes/
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As always I'm keen to hear how you are using Firefly. Got some coding talents? Feel free to contribute features and fixes through [github][2].

[2]: http://github.com/ariejan/firefly