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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 [...]
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Tags: authentication, http-authentication, http-basic-authentication problems, httpauth, httpauthentication, oauth, twitter, Twitter API, twitter app, twitter client, twitter oauth
Watch Out, Apple
The anti-trust community is all over Google, these days, says an article in the August 2009 issue of Wired Magazine. Fred Vogelstein tells readers that the search giant is the new Microsoft – remember that huge antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft for packaging their browser with Windows? Now they’re interested in the advertising and business ideas [...]
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Tags: antitrust, apple, apple antitrust, apple monopoly, apple sucks, google, google antitrust, internet, microsoft, microsoft antitrust, monopolizing, monopoly, Rant, Technology, watch out apple
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
Yesterday, I arrived in Seattle for this year’s Microsoft Faculty Summit, my relative accompanying me. Of course, I tweeted (hashtag #facsum) about the sessions I attended today, and took pictures of said sessions and of the Microsoft campus. You can click here to view the gallery. Enjoy! Tomorrow, I shall summarize the main developments exposed [...]
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Tags: 10th anniversary, day1, facsum, facsum2009, faculty summit, faculty summit 2009, microsoft, microsoft conference, microsoft faculty summit, seattle, tech, tech event, technology conference
Hi readers! I’m not sure if I mentioned that I’m pretty active on Twitter, with over 750 followers currently, and I just added a link to my Twitter account on the sidebar to the right for convenience if say you want to follow me, @maximz2005. Also, you can now subscribe to new posts on this [...]
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In recent times, as Twitter has become increasingly popular, the demand for rich media applications that post to Twitter from the iPhone and iPod Touch platform has also risen. Many such applications have been created, such as TwitterFon, Tweetie, and Twinkle. Twitterrific is just another example, developed by Iconfactory (a version for Mac is also [...]
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Tags: app review, Feature, iphone, iphone app, ipod touch, itouch, lightning review, mobile twitter client, program review, review, twitter, twitter app, twitter client, twitter client review
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