buck.ly is a bit.ly clone, written in Brubeck and sorta paying homage to Jeff Buckley. This is not meant to be a serious tool and is written primarily for teaching purposes.

The url shortening code is based works by counting up from 0 and simply converts from that count to base 52. Normally, base 62 is a good choice, but I removed the vowels to prevent accidentally creating curse words in short urls.

The base conversion code is from this snippet: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/111286/