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on Thursday, March 4, 2010
String manipulation tricks in bash scripting
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Only recently realised you can do some pretty handy string manipulations in bash, specifically, the ability to do string slicing: #!/bin/bash MYSTRING="hello there" STRLEN=${#MYSTRING} let STARTPOS=$[STRLEN-5] echo "First 5: ${MYSTRING:0:5}" echo "Last 5: ${MYSTRING:$STARTPOS:5}" Embarra...
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on Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Why and how to use the Twitter Streaming API in PHP
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About 2 weeks ago, Twitter promoted their little-known Streaming API to production status and, further to that, have now recommended that all high volume and repeated search queries should migrate to the new API. In their own words, the streaming API is a better solution because of: - Compl...
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on Saturday, November 7, 2009
Two iTunes accounts on one iPhone
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A little known feature of the iPhone (at least from my discussions until recently) is the ability to have two (or more) iTunes/App store accounts linked to one iPhone. Why do this? The main reason (for Australians anyway) is to be able to have an Australian App Store account for apps like Metlin...
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on Thursday, August 13, 2009
Twitter Retweet API is all about TweetRank
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Twitter's announcement today of a retweet API is all about search and not really about the current RT convention being (as Biz says) "a bit cumbersome". I'm definitely not the first person to comment on this, in fact, Topsy has been working on this principle for 3 years, but Twitter's changes are...
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