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RSS to Twitter using PHP 5 now on GitHub

By Colin Devroe | Published: January 19, 2010
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 [...]
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Joining the drum line for Realtime RSS

By Colin Devroe | Published: January 1, 2010
I remember when I first learned about RSS. At the time my personal Web site was running on some homegrown content management system that I built myself using ASP. So I was tasked, unlike many people today, with creating my own feeds. I had to learn what feeds did and why they were beneficial, read [...]
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RSS to Twitter using PHP

By Colin Devroe | Published: December 6, 2009
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 [...]
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The pseudo Twitter follow through FriendFeed

By Colin Devroe | Published: June 11, 2008
A quick and simple way to stay up-to-date with someone, or something, on Twitter without needing to "follow" them.
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Are feeds really like a time machine?

By Colin Devroe | Published: November 1, 2007
I'm constantly trying to figure out ways describe things in a way anyone can understand. Lets continue working to that end, instead of going the opposite direction.
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Re: The usefulness of Microformats

By Colin Devroe | Published: December 4, 2006
Recently Kyle expressed his gripes about Microformats, their documentation, and usefulness. This is my reply to that.
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Leopard wish list – Part two: Mail

By Colin Devroe | Published: November 13, 2006
Mail is one of the most used applications on the Mac OS. As such it sometimes is subject to more scrutiny than other applications. I take a light-approach with this wish list, though some of the up-coming features of Leopard Mail do not look enticing to me.
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Leopard wish list – Part one: Safari

By Colin Devroe | Published: November 10, 2006
A very short wish list for the next version of Safari - which is to be pre-bundled with Mac OS X Leopard.
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