Posts Tagged ‘dabr’
Looking for some Twitter API help. Bit of a geeky post, this…
Pagination is the act of splitting data into logical pages. Suppose I had a list of item, numbered 0 – 99. If I want 20 items per page, it’s trivial to see that pagination looks like:
p1 = 0-19
p2 = 20-40
p3 = 41-61
p4 = 62-82
p5 …
I am no longer confused! Here is a quick tutorial in how to post images to Twitpic and Twitter when using OAuth. I’m indebted to Steve Corona of Twitpic, for his help with this.
You can see the full code on Dabr’s Google Code page.
First of all, you’ll need to have enabled OAuth for …
The Twitter Engineering Team have a set of text processing classes which are meant to simplify and standardise the recognition of URLs, screen names, and hashtags. Dabr makes use of them to keep in conformance with Twitter’s style.
One of the advantages of the text processing is that it will recognise that www.example.com is a …
People have been very excited to see some new functionality in Dabr – the mobile Twitter client I develop for. But what is it and how does it work?
Reply to All
The @@ symbol allows you to reply to all the people mentioned within the tweet.
It only shows up on tweets which mention other users …
What is “Implicit Knowledge”? Essentially it’s stuff that everyone knows, but no one has written down. Usually it’s something that people have worked out through their own experiences.
This sort of knowledge is common in life – but is fatal in computing and design. Take the following tweet I received.
The complaint was that …
There are many “rules” when it comes to User Interface / User Experience design. One that I try to stick to is “Don’t let users do things they can’t do.”
It’s one of my gripes with Linux. If you’re editing a configuration file, you are relying on yourself to sanity check your input – often without …
As any student of computer science knows, line breaks are confusing. There are styles of line breaks unique to Unix, Mac and Windows – so what should a web renderer do when faced with a newline command? In HTML, it’s simple, they should be ignored. But what when it is user generated text, …
Twitter have announced that all third party site will have to use OAuth. You will no longer be able to just type in your username and password to get access to Twitter via your favourite web client.
Usually, I would be a big fan of this move – especially if it forces password anti-pattern sites like …
I’m a big fan of OAuth – despite some claims to the contrary. It’s an excellent way of teaching people not to stick their username and password into any old site which asks for it. Which is why I’m so incredibly disappointed in Twitter’s implementation of mobile OAuth.
For a service which started out …
I’ve written a very basic JIL widget to launch dabr. You can grab it from http://shkspr.mobi/Dabr.wgt
I’ve tested this to work on the Vodafone 360 H1 – but it should work with any JIL handset.
Because it isn’t certified, you may need to dial
*#35767#
to remove the H1′s security check.
The code is very simple. The JIL SDK allows …
A quick explanation of how I integrated AudioBoo and Phreadz with Dabr.
I’m a big fan of AudioBoo – for those who don’t know it, AudioBoo allows you to record some audio on your phone and then publish it to the web. It’s like instant podcasting. Originally only for the iPhone, AudioBoo now works on Android …
