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I’m tired of all the Twitter API applications that force users to enter their Twitter usernames and passwords to log in. Why? Well, because it’s just so insecure! Many people realized this for web applications some time ago, so now, most Twitter web services use OAuth to connect with the Twitter API. But for some [...]
Filed under: computer science, Feature, Programming, Technology, Twitter, Web | 3 Comments
Tags: authentication, http-authentication, http-basic-authentication problems, httpauth, httpauthentication, oauth, twitter, Twitter API, twitter app, twitter client, twitter oauth
The League of Justice (i.e. the StackOverflow trilogy) stickers arrived today in the mail! YAY YAY YAY! Somehow or other, there were two StackOverflow stickers, along with a ServerFault and SuperUser one, in my envelope, when there should have been only three total, but this is awesome! I will post pictures of the stickers soon!
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Tags: .NET, C#, geek, internet, Programming, serverfault, stackoverflow, stackoverflow stickers, stackoverflow trilogy, superuser, Technology, web 2.0
The Twitpocalypse Returns
In my last post, I explained what truly went on in the Twitpocalypse, which dealt with tweet IDs passing the limits of the 32-bit signed integer (from -2,147,483,647 to +2,147,483,647), which is the most common datatype in use in computer applications today. Yet, whilst computer science has limits embedded into its structure, Twitter does not [...]
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Tags: 32-bit, 32-bit integer, 32-bit signed integer, 32-bit unsigned integer, 64-bit, 64-bit datatype, 64-bit integer, API, computer science, computer science datatype, computers, integer, microblogging, Programming, signed integer, signed integer limit, social media, social networking, social programming, Technology, twitpocalypse, twitpocalypse problem, twitter, Twitter API, twitter client, unsigned integer, unsigned integer limit
Numerous friends have asked me about this whole Twitpocalypse thing, as they just don’t get it. “What’s this whole deal with signed integers?”, they ask. Well I’m here to clear that up, as I do programming, and in programming, if you don’t know such basics of computer science, you’re doomed. What the predicters of the [...]
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Tags: 32bit, compsci, compsci bugs, compsci error, computer error, computer science, data types, error, int32, int64, integer, long, overflow, Programming, programming bugs, programming error, signed integer, stack overflow, tech, Technology, twitpocalypse, y2k, year2038
This year, I attended the 2-day Microsoft Faculty Summit 2009 at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA. This was my first time ever visiting such an awesome company as Microsoft, and I was very amazed and delighted. I was able to speak to one of the programmers at Microsoft, and I was very intrigued. I [...]
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Tags: facsum, facsum2009, faculty summit, faculty summit 2009, geek, microsoft, microsoft conference, microsoft faculty summit, microsoft research, personal, seattle, tech, tech conference, tech event, Technology, technology conference, trip, twitter
Implementing GUP in ASP.NET
You may or may not have heard of GUP, but it is used in numerous programming projects for updating purposes. GUP is an acronym for Generic Updater, and it was originally developed for NotePad++, one of my favorite text editors. As you can guess, by “generic”, the developers mean that you can use GUP in [...]
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Tags: asp.net, generic updater, GUP, php, Programming, update, updater
I’ve always wanted to experiment with creating “sessions” on websites to mimic real users browsing and using a site, and I’ve finally gotten around to a project that involves this: my goal is to “wrap” an online database that is queried through a series of HTML forms, returns a map, and then allows you to [...]
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Tags: .NET, C#, CookieContainer, cookies, fiddler, hacking online interface, HTTP sessions, HttpWebRequest, HttpWebRequest headers, Programming, wrapper
If you’re a .NET developer, admit it: you’ve at least once felt curious about how the underlying APIs behind the .NET Framework are coded, how certain functions are implemented, or whether one core function is more efficient that another. Well, this is where the trusty program named .NET Reflector comes in. As the title suggests, [...]
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Tags: .NET, .NET Reflector, C#, coding, decompiler, Programming, source code
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