I'm Jonathan Bullock; creator of JBake and Twitile, developer with a passion for the Internet, geek, gadget lover and fan of far too many sports. I occasionally give talks, take some photos and tweet every now and then.
hash.to is a simple URL shortener using the http://hash.to domain name that is totally free to use.
Just enter your long URL such as:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kindle-Wireless-Reading-Display-Generation/dp/B002Y27P46/ref=sa_menu_kdp3w2
And it will be converted into a much shorter URL such as:
It's that simple! You can see how many times you link has been viewed by adding ".info" to the end of your short URL such as:
It's written in Java; Struts 2 is used as the web framework, Hibernate for ORM, UrlRewrite to manage the URL design, MySQL as the database behind the service all running in Apache Tomcat on a VPS from Bytemark.