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integration

Twitter, OAuth vulnerability, and service interconnectedness

It’s ironic that the day that my post on integrating Twitter OAuth (and other third-party authentication) appeared that a vulnerability in OAuth would be identified.
I didn’t write about the potential hassle that site owners will endure when third-party services become unavailable due to bugs or other problems, but it’s a huge consideration for web developers. [...]

Read the full article → April 23, 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