Author Archives: cdn

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-18

Posted on October 18, 2010 by cdn

Typical that gravity wave detection experiment disturbed by locomotive with CN on the side? #horizon @onion2k # does Chilean miners' phoenix capsule remind just me of Val Kilmer's Batman's office-to-cave tunnel transport (only slower) ? # Check this video out … Continue reading →

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-11

Posted on October 11, 2010 by cdn

hypocrisy – ruling class of pachyderms (Uxbridge English Dictionary) # Graceful Degradation, Hardboiled or Progressive Enhancement? #webdevlemma #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-04

Posted on October 4, 2010 by cdn

#newtwitter is not as impressive when you're half-asleep and you're on a C7-powered netbook #

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Tweeting MythTV events in the new OAuth era

Posted on August 30, 2010 by cdn

The mythtv wiki has a few scripts for tweeting MythTV stuff to twitter; although they all relied upon Basic Auth. until recently. Taking a leaf out of Twitter Tools‘ book it’s possible to convert the LWP::UserAgent-based code to do OAuth. … Continue reading →

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“Fix”ing WordPress database tables

Posted on February 6, 2010 by cdn

After restoring tables from a WP mu backup (an incomplete one as it turned out) various issues presented themselves, not least an inability to submit posts (HTTP 500 not informative). A little searching revealed a likely cause (http://discuss.joyent.com/viewtopic.php?id=19116): missing auto_increment … Continue reading →

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