The first New England GiveCamp was this weekend at Microsoft’s Northeast Research and Development building in Cambridge, MA, and it was, by far, one of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had in the 15 years I have been professionally coding. About 100 technical and non-technical volunteers spent the weekend of June 11-13 writing code for [...]
Archive of posts tagged REST
Shortening URLs With The bit.ly API Via ASP.NET
After yesterday’s post on using the Twitter API to post status updates on Twitter from an ASP.NET application, a follower of my client suggested using a URL shortening service to link to the articles headlines being posted as tweets. That was an excellent idea of which I should have thought in the first place. And [...]
Posting Status Updates (Tweets) To A Twitter Profile Via ASP.NET
I have a client that posts several news stories to its Web site every day. So it makes tremendous sense for them to post the headlines to Twitter as tweets, so that followers might be informed of breaking news, or just what’s new on the site. The Twitter API makes posting status updates (tweets) to [...]
Most Code Downloads Restored; Some Articles Deleted
I’ve restored about two-thirds of the code downloads on the site, especially for the most popular articles on this site. I’ve also had to delete some articles that were either based on images I can no longer locate or were, to be blunt, badly written. Bear with me; I should have the last of the [...]
Describing ‘Red’ To A Blind Man: The Dilemma Of Ontology
Recently asked on Yahoo! Answers: How to map a keyword to a category? I have a bunch of general categories, such as: Games, Modeling, Business, Finance, etc. My question is, how can I take a keyword such as “Xbox 360″ and automatically map it to a category such as “Games”? This is an easy example, [...]
An Open Letter To A Programming Noob
Recently received in my e-mail: Hi There Found your email on your blog via the contact me which is linked to on your [Yahoo! Answers] profile. I was curious as to what languages you program in as I am keen to get into programming and wanted any advise or recomendations for books. I have done [...]
