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Turn Tweets Into a PDF

December 24th, 2010 View Comments

Last night I tried my hand with Google’s app engine. In short, I totally dig it. I figured I’d try to make a very simple app that turned recent Twitter stream posts from a user into a PDF file. It was fun, it was stunningly easy and the Python MVC framework that the Google Apps [...]

Posted in Code, project | Tags: app engine, appspot, jquery, pdf, python, transform, twitter, twitter to pdf

Twitter oAuth in .Net without Web Login

July 18th, 2010 View Comments

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. [...]

Posted in Code | Tags: .net, Code, oAuth, twitter

Traffic Generation Part 2 – Social Networking

July 10th, 2010 View Comments

The term “Social Networking” isn’t necessarily easy to describe. In the context of the web, technically I suppose it could be defined as building and interacting with individuals online. But by this definition, social networking isn’t something recently new. Blogging, forums, IRC could all be considered social networking. Some of these I discussed as traffic [...]