Author Archives: Sam

Weekly Tweet Update 26-04-2012

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Sam

Video: Time lapsed video of a young girl growing up from 1 week to 12 years old. As if they don’t grow up… http://t.co/CBHBEuU7 -> Programming Windows 6th edition for $10 – Microsoft are going to be releasing Charles Petzold’s … Continue reading →

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Weekly Tweet Update 29-03-2012

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Sam

I just unlocked the "Trainspotter" badge on @foursquare! http://t.co/1Wopg8ak -> Flickr style 'Justified' layout in JQuery #flickr #jquery http://t.co/1qa155iT -> Google Play? Why do I want this on my google toolbar? I don't have android! ->

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Flickr ‘Justified’ Layout in JQuery

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Sam

Update: I’ve done a updated version, with scrolling, and various input boxes for changing the tags to search for here: http://jsbin.com/upinek/15. Enjoy. Someone posted recently on Stackoverflow asking how the new Flickr Justified photo pages had been created. i.e. how to create … Continue reading →

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Weekly Tweet Update 22-03-2012

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Sam

I just ousted Michael R. as the mayor of BT CTE on @foursquare! http://t.co/oolxXeV8 -> Newest version of #flickrnet available for #Silverlight #wpdev and normal #dotnet. Get via #nuget or download from codeplex -> I just unlocked the Level 2 … Continue reading →

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Weekly Tweet Update 16-02-2012

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Sam

I just ousted Andrew H. as the mayor of Joseph Swan School on @foursquare! http://t.co/hUioZM0z -> I just unlocked the “Mall Rat” badge on @foursquare! Time for a fancy pretzel. http://t.co/6M6sAH5k -> I just unlocked the "Swimmies" badge on @foursquare! … Continue reading →

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Silverlight and the Authorization Header – OAuth

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Sam

I discovered the other day that there are issues when using Silverlight and setting the Authorization header, the preferred method for sending the oauth parameters to a service. http://oauth.net/core/1.0a/#consumer_req_param Silverlight 3.0 does not however let you set the Authorization header. … Continue reading →

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Flickr announces end date for old authentication

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Sam

Flickr have announced the end date for the old authentication method. After the 31st July you will no longer be able to use the old authentication methods, and will have to use the new OAuth 1.0a authentication flow in your … Continue reading →

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OAuth and Flickr – Part 2

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Sam

Continuing on from Part 1. Update: I got the order of the parameters wrong below so my example signature was incorrect. I have now fixed that. Authenticating with Flickr The process of authenticating with Flickr is a 3 stage process. … Continue reading →

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OAuth and Flickr – Part 1

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Sam

Flickr recently announced (well OK, it was back in June) that they would be supporting OAuth 1.0a as the future authentication method for accessing the Flickr API. They say that sometime in 2012 the old authentication token scheme will be … Continue reading →

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Weekly Tweet Update 24-11-2011

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Sam

Thanks to @nebytes and @gillcleeren last night for an interesting talk. Sorry I had to leave early as I was enjoying #winrt. -> Cool #telerik stress toy. Ninja! http://t.co/lYph5z02 -> Off to @NEBytes. #winrt and #SharePoint in the cloud! ->

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