Archives for 2011
The Twitter API utilizes a 3-legged OAuth authentication process where an authenticated Twitter user can authorize a Twitter-based application to interact with their account and data. This is useful for applications that desire this ability, however what about a Twitter application that doesn’t care about other users and just wants to get down and dirty [...]
UPDATE (02/08/2013): Facebook has deprecated the offline_access token, so this method no longer works! See this post on Stack Overflow to learn how to extend an access token to 60 days. I’ve been working on a few scripts that performed some minor data collection using the Facebook Graph API as a data source. Ideally, I [...]
I recently upgraded one of my laptops to Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” and I have had the pleasure opportunity to explore the new Unity user interface for GNOME. Immediately I was annoyed when I noticed that my keyboard shortcuts for switching workspaces (ALT+F1, ALT+F2, etc) were defaulted to several dedicated commands in the Unity shell. [...]
