I contribute code to Dabr – a mobile twitter client. It’s a great project to keep my hand in the world of PHP, APIs, SVN, and all the other tools that are essential to the modern online world.
Dabr’s strength for developers is two-fold
Dead easy to install. Unzip the files, fill in your [...]
I have twice been subject to some very inept blackmail over a posts I had made on twitter.
The first time was after I called a particularly nasty company “twunts” over a dispute I’d had with them. I’ll be the first to admit that it wasn’t a particularly mature reaction – [...]
Why doesn’t Twitter’s OAuth let me specify the length of time a 3rd party has access to my account? Take a look at all the crap you’ve given access to your Twitter account. Are you ever going to use that “See how many of your friends like cheese” app again? No.
Long time readers [...]
I attended the Mobile Monday meeting “200,000 Apps – Where’s Mine” last night.
One thing that became clear is that apps don’t do a very good job of promoting themselves. One crippling problems with most app stores is that there’s no (easy) way to share an app with a friend.
Here’s some [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Twitpic has implemented an OAuth API. No more having to hand out passwords to all and sundy. Only I’m too much of a dunderhead to get it working. Perhaps it’s a combination of heatstroke or this rotten head-cold, but I just can’t see what I’m doing wrong. Any help much appreciated.
The easy bit. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This morning, when I logged on to Twitter, I saw a user who I didn’t recognise tweeting away in my timeline.
I wracked my brains thinking about how they could have gotten in there before I realised it was a long-dormant friend who had changed their name and avatar.
But, in thinking about how a [...]
This is one of the longest and geekiest posts I’ve done. It’s a work in progress. All comments and abuse welcome.
#hashtag – As long has there has been a way to search Tweets* people have been adding information to make the easy to find. The #hashtag syntax has become the standard for attaching a [...]
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