Thickbox thickbox thickbox. Why on earth did Thickbox make it into the WordPress core and Lightbox didn’t? I’m pretty sure that most of you will agree with me – Lightbox is fancier than Thickbox, that cool effect on popup. And the way you can browse through the images in a gallery just by clicking the left and right parts of the image. Thickbox doesn’t have that! It took...
Automated Serverside Tweeting Using OAuth
Great, our Foller.me Rundown account (@fmrd) now tweets via OAuth and has our application name and link attached to every tweet. It was indeed pretty simple. After reading the specs of the OAuth protocol I came up with a fairly simple solution. I’m using this open source Twitter OAuth php library by Abraham Williams which is quite good, and I do recommend you try some basic OAuth stuff...
Twitter API: Moving From Basic Auth to OAuth
As I mentioned earlier this week, with Foller.me beta 3, people now have the ability to follow tweeps directly from the website with a single click, without having to browse to their Twitter profile nor providing us with their Twitter credentials (thanks to OAuth. Read this post if you haven’t: The Importance of Using Twitter API via OAuth). Now, why not take even more advantage of Twitter...
Foller.me Got Coverage On Mashable!
The first thing I do when I wake up on an ordinary day is check my e-mail and Twitter, and today was an ordinary day until I met some strange messages regarding Foller.me in my inbox. Why is everybody suddenly so interested? Turns out that this day is not ordinary at all. Yes, Foller.me gets covered by Adam Ostrow at Mashable! The post became part of the Mashable’s Spark of Genius series via the...
The Importance of Using Twitter API via OAuth
I hope you noticed the latest changes at Foller.me. I’m talking about the new Followers rate section thanks to the TwitterCounter API and of course something I’ve been dreaming about since the launch of the project. You view a profile at Foller.me before making a decision about following that particular person or not, right? And yeah, we had a link at the bottom of the page that lead...
Extending the jQuery Lightbox Plugin: Custom Link
Lightbox. I love it, though one interesting limitation I came over today is that there’s no extra linking possibilities. Yeah, the back and forth links are cool, but I’d like to take my visitor to some place whenever he clicks the full-sized image, not just close the lightbox. A good example may be an art gallery, where you can view an image set via lightbox, and then suddenly you...
Foller.me Featured on ProgrammableWeb.com
Wow this is so awesome. I received an e-mail this morning and here’s what it said: Dear kovshenin, Your mashup Foller.me has now been published on ProgrammableWeb. You can see it here: <a href="">; It is also our Mashup of the Day for 09/13/2009. Congratulations! It will be on the front page of ProgrammableWeb today. Thank you for submitting your application and sharing it with our...
FTP Breaking on FEAT (vsftpd on Fedora Core 8)
It’s been a while since I connected to my Amazon EC2 running Fedora Core 8 via FTP and for no reason I tried connecting there today and badaboom! Strange though, it worked fine about a month ago, I was able to upload and download files, but this time I got a little crash. On one version of FileZilla FTP client I received a simple “Unable to connect” error. On a newer version I...
Linux Shell: Host to IP in Bulk
I’m very busy this week setting up a new router here at the office, but I do find some interesting stuff that might be somehow useful to you. Like this shell script I wrote a few hours ago that reads a text file with different hosts on each line (google.com, yahoo.com, etc) and returns a new file with their resolved, i.e. ip addresses on each line. I’m not sure where you’d want...
WordPress: Tag Cloud Based on Author Posts
I’m currently working on a little russian social network powered by WordPress and I kinda got stuck this weekend on the user profile page. WordPress has got a pretty good mechanism for working with users, and the users meta piece is so awesome and useful. I’ve a little problem though, trying to output a tag cloud based on posts that a specific user has written. In general this might...