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• 09.22.10
  Twitter OAuth with PHP and cURL multi   LAMP, OAuth, Software design, Twitter, Web (0)

  I am maintaining a website that aggregate a large number of Twitter accounts’ tweets. For this purpose we’ve been given one of the accounts with the high API request rate limit – usually it is possible to call the Twitter API’s 150 times every hour. We have a rate limit of 20.000 hourly requests and [...]

• 04.29.10
  Will ideas of the Massachusetts law spread?   MySQL, Open Source, Software design, Web (0)

  On reddit, I found this article regarding a new law i Massachusetts that is to increase the security of personally identifiable information. If you have personally identifiable information (PII) about a Massachusetts resident, such as a first and last name, then you have to encrypt that data on the wire and as it’s persisted. Sending [...]

• 05.06.09
  Javascript performance on current browsers   Geekyness, Linux, Performance, Software design, Web, Windows (1)

  Found this little test which gives an indicator as to Javascript performance in your browser. On my system (Windows XP on two year old Lenovo T60p laptop) i tried to run it ten times on my browsers with all plugins disabled (lower is better): Google Chrome: 297,7Firefox 3.5 beta 4: 340Firefox 3.0.10: 408,9Internet Explorer 8: [...]

• 02.22.09
  Netbooks – the necessary new design test-tool   Geekyness, Linux, Netbooks, Open Source, Software design, Tips, Web (0)

  Writing this on my Lenovo S10e netbook, I am furious. It’s before mid-day and yet I have had two experiences of software designs that did not consider netbooks a platform – or at least the new low screen resolution these computers imply. And before you call me a whiner (besides the fact that you’d be [...]

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