September 2010
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A Ten-minute URL Shortener →
My blog post for SitePoint describing how I built 99designs’ new URL shortener with Sinatra and Heroku.
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Damn it, git, you win. I really didn’t want to like you, since your...
– Marco Arment on Twitter, summarising my thoughts on git.
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Talking Tools: Marco Arment of Tumblr and... →
Interesting interview with Marco Arment. I think I’m developing a nerd-crush.
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I make this plea to country people, some of whom don’t agree with the...
– Tony Windsor justifying his decision to back a Labor government.
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The Three Possibilities →
Mark Davis takes us through the three possible outcomes of this election:
Two or three of Oakeshott, Windsor and Katter agree to support a Labor government. Julia Gillard goes straight to the Governor General to be sworn in as the Prime Minister of Australia.
All three independents support a Coalition government. Gillard can then choose to ask the Governor General to swear Tony Abbot in as PM...
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Twitter's OAuth Implementation →
Ryan Paul, writing for Ars Technia:
Aside from handling the consumer secret issue poorly, Twitter’s OAuth implementation has a number of bugs, defects, and inconsistencies that pose challenges for users and developers.
Third-party developers are finding that it is maddeningly difficult to debug client-side support for Twitter’s OAuth implementation because Twitter tends to...
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