Archive for the ‘Twitter’ Category
This says it all: WWII British motivational posters. Thanks to @ndebruin at Twitter.
I’ve never been a big fan of the Badges created by Twitter. Though custom themes are possible, you have very little control over exactly what gets displayed. Fortunately, Twitter has a full API that makes accessing your public timeline realitively simple. Just remember, this will not work if you have set your updates to Private. [...]
Twitter has come under attack the last couple of days because of a phishing scam. After looking at this scam, and thinking about how Twitter maintains a user’s session, I decided to play around a little bit with my account. First, I’m using Safari on OSX, but all browsers have the same problem, it’s just [...]
If you’re not on Saul Williams’ mailing list, here’s a nice reprint of his reasons behind the Nike ad, and the ad itself. One of the great poets/rappers of the last 10 years. If you’ve never seen Slam, do yourself a favor and watch it. Ironic that I posted a Saul quote this morning to [...]
Remember when Discovery Channel had science shows?” is the new “Remember when MTV played music videos?Twitter
He was cute in a God-fearing sort of way.Tara Hunt (Twitter status). I’m so going to start using this to apply to anything.
I’ve been living in mod_rewrite hell today. There are lots of different ways to get clean urls in ColdFusion, none of them I particularly like. The classic trick, is just to append all your variables to the end of the file like so: /twitter.cfm/var1/value1/var2/value2 Then you use OnRequest in your Application.cfc to manage the list [...]
Twitter app with update status and post counter
I’ve been working on a Coldfusion Twitter API client for a couple of days, and it’s almost done. Link coming soon. In the meantime, check out the use of REMatch, which is a new tag in CF8, for regex matching. In previous versions of CF, if you wanted to do a search and replace with [...]
I’ve been banging my head against a wall for the past 30 minutes trying to figure out how the reply to status in Twitter works. In the API, when you call your timeline, it returns a in_reply_to_status_id and in_reply_to_user_id. On the surface, it seems that Twitter is doing some kind of magic, that knows when [...]