There has been one of the funniest && geekiest meme ever on Twitter this week-end: #DeveloperMovies, where people suggested movie titles using code. A lot of fun stuff, some clever stuff, various languages. Here are a few of the best things I’ve found and could understand (I did have to Google a few hints sometimes, [...] → Read more

Matt Harris, Developer Advocate at Twitter, posted in the wp-hackers mailing list some important information about the Twitter API. In substance, On the 30th June the Twitter REST API will stop supporting Basic Authentication and instead switch to OAuth. This means all user authenticated requests to the API must be OAuth signed, preferably using OAuth [...] → Read more

A few days ago, Twitter published a new tool that lets you embed a tweet on your site, simplifying the old school way: take a screenshot, crop the picture, upload it, embed it. The problem is: this Twitter tool is way too lame. Basically you need to cut and paste a lengthy code snippet full [...] → Read more

In case you haven’t noticed, and chances are you didn’t notice because actually I didn’t really mention it anywhere, updates from Planet WordPress are also on Twitter: @planetwp. Follow! Share This Related posts WordPress SVN Now Twittered (0) Send Your SVN Commits to Twitter (0) WordPress.com Invite (0) WordPress Theme Sirius (1) WordPress Theme Design [...] → Read more

If you’re a WordPress freelancer, you already probably have your regular web sources for your gigs (and if you don’t, do read How to find a WordPress job right now). Did you know that Twitter was also a fine potential source of information for your next project ? Here are three Twitter users that you [...] → Read more

If you’re a Twitter user, got a WordPress blog, and would like to throw in some interactions between those two, don’t miss this plugin: Twitter Connect. Using the brand new Twitter’s OAuth API, this plugin lets you identify yourself using your Twitter account. I like it for several reasons: it’s cool, it’s quick, and it [...] → Read more

Recently, I’ve been using Twitter more and more. I recently launched a tiny web service and decided to use Twitter as a “marketing” platform (maybe I’ll blog about this later) so I really needed a way to switch easily between multiple Twitter accounts and identity. The best twitter client I’ve found yet is Splitweet, a [...] → Read more

It seems Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror has found a new way to identify spam: comments by women are so rare on my blog that when I see a female name in the comments it is 95% likely to be spam. Sad but true. Hey. Fun but sad but true, I’d say :) Share This [...] → Read more

Troy’s Twitter Script for Greasemonkey is the definitive power tool for Twitter addicts. The feature list of this tiny script is amazing: my favorite is media embedding (view pictures or Youtube videos right from within Twitter), Retweet button, on the fly link shrinking when writing and expanding when reading, and much more. Check the full [...] → Read more

One of Twitter’s cool features is that you can really customize your profile, in particular with any background you want. Doing this, you are soon facing a design constraint: Twitter is a fixed width centered column, and your background image will be aligned from the top left corner. So despite all your artistic efforts, your [...] → Read more