I was interested in getting a Twitter App together to orchestrate some follows and unfollows and user searches for a personal project. In the past, I’ve used Twitter’s Basic Authentication API to get my Twitter feed, but according to the Twitter API documentation, Basic Auth is going to be unsupported in August of this year. [...]
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Fight Spam with Free Ready Made CAPTCHA Service
November 30th, 2008
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CAPTCHA’s. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, they’re sometimes a good idea to implement. reCAPTCHA is a free service that allows web developers to implement a CAPTCHA on their form with virtually no effort. And did I mention it is a free service? Well, that’s not entirely true. In exchange, reCAPTCHA is putting the user challenge [...]
Capturing Keyboard Events in Adobe Flex 3
November 26th, 2008
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For anyone else spending an unfortunate length of time unsuccessfully attempting to capture keyboard events in a Flex 3 application (for browser or AIR), here’s where you’re probably going wrong. You are likely registering the keyboard listener too early. It’s likely that you are calling an init() method where you register the keyboard event on [...]
Ajax Made Easy – the Power of jQuery
November 25th, 2008
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Ajax – Asynchronous Javascript and XML. It’s more a technique than anything else. While senior management may consider Ajax to be fancy animations and “rich” internet applications, fundamentally, the term Ajax simply refers to exploiting a browser’s ability to background load XML from other URL’s. Loading XML Asynchronously In the past, I’ve implemented Ajaxiness by [...]
XML Schema Recipes
November 19th, 2008
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Don’t underestimate the power of validating XML with a schema. I’ve often overlooked much of what an XML schema is capable of, generally doing the minimum needed to create one. But investing a little more love with a schema can save time and headache (especially when working in situations involving multiple systems and interfaces). Creating [...]
