What is OAuth, and why should you care? Here’s the deal: Just like Skynet of Terminator fame, web apps have lately been doing a lot more talking to each other on the “back-end” instead of all web communication being between a human and a web app. This is a GOOD thing as long as the . . . → Read More: OAuth: Totally!
 6 comments - (Comments are closed)  Geek Stuff, Hacking and Security  authentication, authorization, Bar Camp Portland, credentials, hack, hackers, handshake, humans, json, Legacy, Oauth, password, PHP5, security, serious hackers, skynet, third party, third party application, token, twitter, web application Warning: Hard Core Dorkage! Here’s a little simple memcached test you can have to test memcached on your system. I am working on an app that, while the server load is not huge, the datasets that you are presenting to a visitor are larger than normal for a web app, and so I ultimately plan . . . → Read More: Memcached Test 9 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Stuff Apache, cache, extension, memcache, memcached, performance, PHP5 I just finished installing the latest version of the Tweet This WordPress Plugin. It renders my Tweet This Hack obsolete. As now you can configure the text that comes out. This is as it should be. I’m so honored! Richard Thripp, the author of Tweet This, even dropped by and made a comment on that . . . → Read More: New Tweet This Hack but Still no Monkeys 11 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff, Hacking and Security, Monetizing adjix, configuration, filthy rich, hack, monetize, money, monkeys, PHP class, PHP5, retirement, Richard Thripp, riches, shortener, solid waste port, support, tweet this, URL length, URL shrinkers, word press plugin |
Try my beta Word Press Plugin
Well, it had to happen. It is amazing that I’ve been using WordPress so long without getting into its guts. While hacking on the Tweet this plugin ever so gently, I started to get the feel for how WP plugins work. So I wrote a couple myself. The first one is serious old school, as . . . → Read More: Try my beta Word Press Plugin