Software Development

Apache Shindig PHP Setup Problem Solved

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

First things first. Shindig is an Apache incubator project that serves as an OpenSocial Container and…I’m already falling asleep. Too boring. I’m way behind the curve on all things “social networking” but I have an idea for an app that may scratch an itch I have, and it just happens that some of this social [...]

That’s The Java Way!

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

A quote from an email I saw come across this evening:
Otherwise, what’s the point? Pile up one xml on top of the other? 
I couldn’t resist.  A cheap shot at Java.  I’m just bitter after being exposed to one too many Java frameworks in the past that seemed to think that “you can never have too [...]

MSSU Follow Up

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

On Thursday, October 25th, I spoke to the CIS club at Missouri Southern State University. The presentation won’t win any awards (no presentation of mine ever will.) I put the Powerpoint up on SlideShare. I promised the students and professors in attendance that I would follow up with a post on my blog [...]

The Cathedral and bzr

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Horrible title, but I couldn’t resist. Apparently, I need to get in a time machine and catch up on the latest and greatest in version control systems (VCS). Bazaar (bzr for short) is a distributed version control system along the lines of BitKeeper, git, and a number of others. I’d be lying [...]

Twitter Tools Wordpress Plugin Fix

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

After getting an hour or so to focus on coding around the Twitter issue I previously posted about, I think I have a fix. For whatever reason the Twitter API is accepting requests from CURL but not from Twitter Tools use of the PHP library Snoopy. Not all PHP installs have the CURL [...]