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Desert Code Camp

Here, finally is the post for Desert Code Camp that I promised to make available. First off, thanks to everyone who attended my session on Integrating Facebook Connect. Secondly, please feel free to ask me questions via email, Twitter, or by commenting here.
Please feel free to download the source code. For each file in the [...]

Read the full article → November 6, 2009

Use Twitter, Facebook, OAuth or OpenID for login?

Now that OAuth is officially available for accessing the Twitter API, it’s technically possible to use Twitter’s services as an authentication method for logging into your web site. In fact, when setting up a new Twitter OAuth application, there’s an option suggesting that very use.

This is not a new concept, but with the recent proliferation [...]

Read the full article → April 22, 2009

Publishing to Facebook using Facebook Connect

In order to get a frame of reference for this post, you’ll need to read Integrating Facebook Connect using the Thesis theme. That article briefly describes the method for creating a new Facebook Connect application and the files required to set up the basic framework for a Facebook Connect integrated site.
Assuming your site is ready [...]

Read the full article → April 1, 2009

Integrating Facebook Connect using the Thesis theme

Propeller-head alert! This is a very technical article.
I’ve received a number of questions about how I integrated Facebook Connect with my blog, so I thought I’d go ahead and explain exactly how I did it. I’m still working on making a very simple open-source Wordpress plugin that does the same thing, but you should be [...]

Read the full article → March 16, 2009

Don’t reinvent the wheel

As a programmer I’ve heard the phrase “don’t reinvent the wheel” dozens (if not hundreds) of times in my career. It’s generally a reference to reusing existing source code to perform routine, well-defined programming tasks — stuff like sorting, searching, parsing and much more.
Within the past few years, however, the scope of what can be [...]

Read the full article → March 4, 2009