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RSS to Twitter using PHP 5 now on GitHub
The PHP5 script that I use to send my mobile photos to Twitter that was bounced back and forth a few times back in December has now been officially moved to GitHub.
After searching on GitHub for scripts that did the same thing I didn’t come up with much. Hopefully this both fills that void and [...]
Tumblr’s Twitter API
Hot on the heels of Wordpress’ Twitter API Tumblr has announced their own Twitter-like API for reading and writing to Tumblogs.
I love that they came right out and said that they were inspired by Wordpress’ move.
Wordpress’ Twitter API
Wordpress.com, to be specific, now has an API that mirrors the Twitter API. This effectively allows any Twitter client, such as Tweetie or Hahlo, to read and write to Wordpress.com powered blogs only by changing their API endpoint.
Hopefully this feature will be available via a plugin sometime in the near future?
/via Tony Schneider.
RSS to Twitter using PHP
Update January 19, 2010: This script is now available on GitHub. Go forth and fork.
Today I noticed that my now ancient PHP script to update Twitter automatically using PHP/cron needed to be updated. It turns out that Twitter stopped recognizing URLs with ? in them as clickable links. Here is an example tweet where you’ll [...]
Pie Guy, a free web game for iPhone
Pie Guy is a fun game for your iPhone that is free, is installed via the Web (it is a fancy Web page), works offline, and is actually a lot of fun (works sorta like Pac-Man).
Neven Mrgan, the developer of Pie Guy, built the game – not only so people can enjoy the game – [...]
Posted in Links Also tagged application, css, development, game, html, iphone, javascript, neven mrgan, open-source, pie guy, web app 1 Comment
Wrap text around an image with jQSlickWrap
Neat jQuery plugin that makes it dead simple to wrap text around an image. The key point here is that it will actually wrap the text around the contents of the image, not just the bounding box of an image.
/via Simon Willison.
Google Chrome’s view source “oddity”
Viewing the source of a page on Google Chrome is, for the most part, a terrific experience. Chrome supports syntax highlighting of the underlying code of a page making it much more readable for us geeks while we look under the hood.
However, something I’ve run into of late is that it doesn’t work very well [...]
CodeIgniter is fast
CodeIgniter is faster than its competitors by quite a margin. Glad we at Viddler chose it for our PHP-based solutions.
/via Mike Rundle on Twitter.
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A few tips to good API design
Good API design is essential to an API being used. The design of an API can be extremely daunting when you are just starting out with a new service so here are a few tips that can help you along the way to build a good, usable API.
Use your own API. The very best way [...]
The perfect Git workflow by Kyle Slattery
The way Kyle talks about Git is much the same as I talk about cookies. Sort of makes me want to grab a tall glass of milk and dive into Git. Here is his perfect Git workflow for a one person project.
WPAPI.org – A stats API for Wordpress.org hosted plugins and themes
WPAPI.org, the brain-child of Dean Robinson (who has been mentioned a few times here on First Initial, Last Name), is an easy to use stats API for plugins and themes hosted on Wordpress.org. Simple idea, perfectly executed.
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Dive Into HTML5 – Video on the Web
The much talked about <video> tag in the HTML5 spec is, obviously, of interest to me. I mean, I work at Viddler after all. However, even if I didn’t – I’d still tell all of you – especially those of you that are Web developers – to take a look at Mark Pilgrim’s amazingly awesome [...]
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Zen-coding, snippets for the rest of us
Jonathan Christopher of Monday By Noon talks about snippets and zen-coding, a “Set of plugins for HTML and CSS hi-speed coding”, in a nice piece about his experience with same.
I’ve been dabbling with zen-coding plugins with Coda for about a week. Loving it.
Posted in Links Also tagged coda, development, jonathan christopher, monday by noon, panic, snippets, textmate, zen-coding 2 Comments
These aren’t the droids you’re looking for URLs
Page not found. Error 404. Those of us that build Web sites for a living have all had to deal with creating these pages. Planning for people to stumble across a URL that we don’t plan on is fairly important to the user’s experience on your site. However, many 404 pages could be done better. [...]
Posted in Notes Also tagged 404, best-practices, error pages, kyle slattery, urls, web site, web-development 1 Comment
How to: Use the Viddler API with CodeIgniter
Me, on The Viddler Developers Blog:
“The Viddler team is using CodeIgniter more and more for our internal PHP projects. Obviously we need to use CodeIgniter with the Viddler API quite a bit so we figured we’d share with you how easy it is to include PHPViddler, the open source PHP API wrapper class for the [...]
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Code Igniter vs. CakePHP – An overview by Jonathan Snook
Speaking of Code Igniter, Jonathan Snook (way back in March 2007) compared it to CakePHP. Although both frameworks have matured slightly since then, this overview still holds up ok – although he is a fan of CakePHP where I’d choose Code Igniter. Thank goodness for choices.
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A PHP Wrapper for Freewheel.tv’s API
Jeff Johns, fellow Viddler team member and jogger (although he’s much more accomplished than I in that area), recently wrote and released an open source PHP wrapper for Freewheel’s API. Much needed by the Viddler team, open for the world.
Add a progress bar to your Viddler uploads
We get this question a lot at Viddler: How can I add a progress bar to my uploads using the Viddler API? We’re always asked if this is something included in our API wrappers. Until now, it hasn’t been. That’s where phpViddlerUploadify comes in. This extension to phpViddler, our PHP wrapper for our API, makes [...]
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Interview with GitHub team member Scott Chacon