During the summer, I stumbled upon an article on Ars Technica about using PyGTK to create a URL shortener. I thought that was pretty interesting, but I don’t use PyGTK. So at that point, I decided to write my own using wxPython and use the article’s code to do the shortening. I hacked together something pretty quickly and then put this article on the back burner and kind of forgot about it. Today, I decided to go ahead and finish it and also create an application that can shorten URLs using other popular URL shorteners. (more…)