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On TwitNotes, Twitter and the transition to OAuth

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:54:21 GMT

Thanks for all the e-mail and all the IM's reminding me that Twitter would retire the use of basic authentication (username/password) in client applications on 30 June 2010. After that announcement it was postponed to 16 August 2010 so there's still time... That's how I read the frontpage of the Twitter API wiki as of today anyway.

Nathan was the first to poke me and remind of it and ever since the reminders have been tickling in. Happy to see that so many are using TwitNotes and is using it enough to actually be bothered by it not working. I'm in the process of testing an OAuth approach using Scribe and hopefully the solution will be ready soon and in good time before the deprecation... :-)

Formally promoted in the Twitterverse...

Wed, 05 May 2010 07:23:39 GMT

It always feels good to help out a fellow Yellowhead and especially be appreciated afterwards (by Mike Myers aka @stickfight on Twitter) :-)

"if formally declare @lekkim a god of domino java to be worshiped above all others"

Thanks Mark and happy I could help.

LMAO - bleedyellow.com fail whale

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:58:47 GMT

This is probably funniest if you're using Twitter but I mistyped a URL to bleedyellow.com and got the below. How funny is that?! Brilliant!! :-)

TwitNotes 1.0.13 available - retweet and SSL support

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:26:55 GMT

TwitNotes 1.0.13 is now available and adds some features I myself have been missing for a long time. Most noticeable is retweet support and that hashtags highlighted and that you can easily search for hashtags by simply clicking it. All operations are also over SSL now. Below is a list of changes.

Changes

Added retweet support by dragging tweet from the list to the input field
Allow drag'n'drop of text to the input field to easily tweet
Allow drag'n'drop of text from the input field to any other site accepting text drop
Detection of hashtags in tweets
Allow you to click a hashtag to search for it on the "Twitter Search"-tab
Changed behavior when clicking an author name - now a search is performed on the "Twitter Search"-tab instead of filtering the list
All operations are now done using SSL

To update TwitNotes either

drag the widget descriptor onto your MyWidgets sidebar panel or...
do an update installed features operation (for those who know about updates sites etc. this is by far the easiest way to upgrade)

As with previous releases I wish to thank those who kindly reminded me of this problem - nice to see people using it.

TwitNotes 1.0.12 available - finally working on Notes 8.5.1

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:56:29 GMT

Ever since the first beta release of Notes 8.5.1 I have been aware that TwitNotes didn't work on this release of Notes. TwitNotes was able to display and search for tweets just fine but you were unable to submit new status updates. I have been asked numerous times to update the plugin but I just didn't have the time.

Today I finally took the time to try and solve the problem. And what a problem. It took all of 3 minutes to solve. Another 5 minutes to upload the code to the update site. If only I had taken the timer sooner... Oh well!

So to update TwitNotes either

drag the widget descriptor onto your MyWidgets sidebar panel or...
do an update installed features operation (for those who know about updates sites etc. this is by far the easiest way to upgrade)

As with previous releases I wish to thank those who kindly reminded me of this problem - nice to see people using it.

Twitterholic

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:26:00 GMT

My dear fiancee captured this picture - am I a Twitterholic? :-)

TwitNotes 1.0.10

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:05:55 GMT

Today I saw that suddenly TwitNotes wasn't displaying any tweets. I could tweet and search from it just fine but the main timeline wasn't displayed. I traced the issue to an error with the utc_offset handling in the Twitter JSON API I forked back when... I have now resolved the issue and placed a widget descriptor for TwitNotes 1.0.10 on the blog and corresponding features on the update site.

To update TwitNotes either

drag the widget descriptor onto your MyWidgets sidebar panel or...
do an update installed features operation (those this solution is right for knows how)

I wish to thank those who kindly reminded me of this problem - nice to see people using it.

Twitterbelion?

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:20:37 GMT

Received this YouTube video from my Twitter-doubting colleague... :-)