OK, no more testing, no more publishing and unpublishing this page.
WPBook 2.3 is released. This uses the same Facebook SDK (3.1.1) as WPBook Lite which I just released last weekend – this will make it easier to manage both.
It will also let me start work on adding more features to the plugin- a more stable base to work from.
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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Retweet Shirt Photo by Deb Hanson - http://www.flickr.com/photos/debspace/3766841512/
Just released an update to ReTweeter (1.1), which now uses the Twitter API for Retweeting. This means that instead of the traditional “RT: @username” syntax, the retweeted tweets will now show Twitter’s little retweet icon and the link to the original tweet (where it says “about 4 hrs ago”) preserved, and the retweeting user’s name at the bottom, like so:
Screencap by Jeronimo Palacios - http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeronimo_palacios/4093181811/
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:
The April BostonPHP meetup featured Josh King and Chuck Hagenbuch of Blue State Digital talking about two critical features of MyBarackObama.com: the Neighbor-to-Neighbor tool and the email marketing engine.
The focus was quite technical – not sure if the “suits” in the room (there aren’t normally many at a BostonPHP meeting, but there were a few this time) really expected such a deep dive – and made you appreciate the herculean effort it takes to mount a sustained campaign like that one.
You can listen to the podcast version of the presentation, see some photos and check out Elena’s notes – she managed to capture the great majority of the details they shared.
