Category Archives: Code

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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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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Developer Developer Developer North in Sunderland in October 2011

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Sam

Just woke up to the news that the North East is to gets its first Developer Developer Developer (DDD) community conference. http://www.nebytes.net/post/DDD-Northe28093Saturday-8th-October-2011e28093Session-Submission-Open!.aspx The conference is community driven and community organised, and best of all free. You can submit your own … Continue reading →

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Windows Phone 7 – What I’ve Learnt So Far

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Sam

I’ve been launching headlong into Windows Phone 7 development as can be seen from my previous post and I’ve come across some little tit bits I thought I’d post up here. Jump Start Training I can’t begin to say how … Continue reading →

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Flickr.Net for Silverlight/Windows Phone 7

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Sam

Just a quick note to say I’ve released the first version of the Flickr.Net library to support Silverlight (3.0 and 4.0) and the new Windows Phone 7 SDK. The release can be downloaded from flickrnet.codeplex.com – use the FlickrNetSilverlight.dll file in … Continue reading →

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Silverlight and Monotouch with Flickr.Net

Posted on July 3, 2010 by Sam

The Flickr.Net library has been getting a bit of love recently. Monotouch Firstly, it got mentioned on the dotnetrocks podcast a week or so ago, a talk with Chris Hardy about Monotouch. Postcast: http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=568 – Flickr.Net is mentioned about 31minutes in. … Continue reading →

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Missing drive when using Remote Desktop

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Sam

Usually when you remote desktop to another machine you can turn on automatic mapping of your local drives to drives on the server – for example you local C: drive is available at \tsclientc However recently I have been experiencing … Continue reading →

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Flickr.Net API Library 3.0 Release

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Sam

I’ve just released a brand spanking new version of the Flickr.Net API library. The big things to note are that this version has over 150 unit tests to make sure it is working correctly. It also covers 100% of the … Continue reading →

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Regex Split bug in JScript?

Posted on November 19, 2008 by Sam

I’ve been messing around with JavaScript quite a bit recently and I came across a ‘bug’ in the Microsoft implementation of the split() method. Take the following example string (note the two tabs at the end): var s = “HellotHowtaretyoutt”; … Continue reading →

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