Published on Sunday, November 14 2010
Photo by Chris Sternal-Johnson, http://www.flickr.com/photos/ceejayoz/371137761/
This is all a bit anti-climactic given that if you were an actual Chat Catcher user, you’ve known that the system was going away since at least October 20th, but the final day has come and gone.
Shannon Whitley, the creator of the Chat Catcher service, wrote in an email to all the users:
While it was fun to create multiple Twitter applications in 2008, Twitter’s extreme growth has made it tough for a single developer to manage this type of software project. Hosting, storage, and ongoing support costs are just too high to justify the continuation of a free service.
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Published on Tuesday, September 21 2010
Photo by Mike Johnston - http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikejsolutions/3078513728/
Just found this long overdue review of Ajax and PHP: Building Modern Web Applications – Second Edition sitting in a drafts folder – looks like I never published it. (Full disclosure – Packt sent me a review copy).
This is the successor to the wildly popular Ajax and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications, which came out back in 2005. The authors of this edition are Bogdan Brinzarea-Iamandi, Christian Darie, and Audra Hendrix. (Brinzarea-Iamandi was also one of the authors of the first edition).
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Published on Monday, September 6 2010
A while back I hacked together a script for automatically reposting all tweets matching a given hashtag, called Retweeter. It’s useful for conferences and other events where you want to see a stream of info regarding a given topic, but don’t want to catch the attention of spammers. (To use retweeter, you set up a twitter account in the name of the hash tag, and retweeter only reposts tweets from those it follows – so if someone starts spamming, just have that retweeter account stop following them).
All was well and good until the OAuthpocalypse arrived:
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Published on Tuesday, August 31 2010
(photo by hobvias sudoneighm, click for photo page)
Thanks to troubleshooting help from mommyknows and other users, I’ve been able to track down and fix an issue with posting to different kinds of pages.
Thanks to Brooke Dukes, we also now have a site for the plugin itself: wpbook.net – with instructions, blog posts about the plugin, and the like.
Grab 2.0.8.1 from the plugin repository and check it out!
(2.0.8 somehow incorporated a nasty syntax error – whitespace ahead of the opening PHP tag – so skip that and go straight to 2.0.8.1).
For a long time now WPBook has enabled users to cross-post excerpts from their blog posts to either the wall of their personal profile or the wall of a Facebook fan page.
However, in setting up WPBook many users were ending up with:
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Published on Friday, May 15 2009
In addition to the 2.0 release of the Times Reader, which also went live this week, the NY Times released Times Wire, another new user experience for consuming news from the NY Times.
While Times Reader focused on creating a desktop experience that had some of the richness of the print edition, this one is focused on the kind of rapid update stream of information made popular by Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, et al.
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