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31 Dec 09

04:46 PM MDT

Posted in Meta

Tweet link rollover

I don’t like visiting sites for something really simple. Reading a single tweet is one of them. If I link to a tweet, you shouldn’t have to go to Twitter to view it. It’s just 140 characters. So what did I do? I added some codes to my blog to pull those tweets in. If I link to a tweet, I can go off to Twitter, pull in the tweet and set the ‘title’ attribute on the anchor tag so when you hover over the link, it shows the tweet text. Yay! From t...


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14 Dec 09

10:50 PM MDT

Posted in Meta

FeedBurner is awesome, Github is breaking, and this is a test

FeedBurner has a new feature out, since Google announced their URL shortener. I originally had logic to shorten the permalinks with tr.im, then post to Twitter, but since FeedBurner can do this now, I’m not going to do it. I like to outsource that kind of stuff, which I’ll talk about in a later post. Also in the news today, Github is having some problems, but they’ll be back soon, so don’t you worry. All in all, this is more of a test to see h...


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30 Sep 09

07:21 PM MDT

Posted in Editorial

What Do Programmers Really Do?

Indeed. What do we do? Well I was curious. WTF you might say. “You’re a programmer! Shouldn’t you know what you do?” Well yes, I know what I do. What I mean is what do programmers do while programming besides programming. I myself write the codes (duh) and hang out on Twitter and listen to podcasts, watch movies, listen to music, and sometimes I just concentrate so hard I forget to eat. I was curious to see what everybody else did while hackin...


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24 Aug 09

08:00 AM MDT

Posted in Software

Post Twitter to identi.ca

So I signed up at identi.ca a while ago, but never really did anything with it. I also found Yahoo Pipes a while ago, and put it on my Todo List to look at, but that was about it. I don’t know why I didn’t think to look at it to do this. Anyway. Pipes lets you manipulate pretty much anything, RSS feeds being one of them. You can feed things around, or pipe them, and alter contents, do whatever. After a little Google work, I found this pipe tha...


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28 May 09

08:23 PM MDT

Posted in Programming

Twitter tools with surl

I should probably actually announce surl… Anyway. I did some reading and hacked up a little plugin to make Twitter Tools use my URL shortener, surl Hopefully it works. It’s kind of unfortunate, since I have to post to test, and I really don’t want all my test posts going out to Twitter, and yet they have to… EDIT: Yay it works. Win! And here’s the code:


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