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Update on the Twitter Auto Post Bot’s Progress 27 Aug 2011 | 01:31 am
If you will allow my musing, I launched a couple killer new features to my Twitter Bot the other day that I’d like to pat myself on the back about. My Twitter Bot now retweets other Twitter accounts p...
Braided Rag Rug in Progress 6 Jul 2011 | 07:43 pm
Yea I know, this is usually a code blog but I’m a crafter at heart and I really wanted to share some of the things I’ve learned with the online community! A month back I decided to try my hand a quilt...
Automated Tweets: Rules of the Road 25 Jun 2011 | 09:23 am
I thought about just amending this to each of the posts in this series but I think it’s an important enough topic to cover on it’s own. Twitter has rules and even though everyone else doesn’t follow t...
Extending Code Ignitor’s Loader / View Classes 24 Jun 2011 | 01:00 am
One of my Code Ignitor based projects desperately needed a iPhone view. I didn’t have many requirements but I knew I needed to find a way to do the following NOT restructure the architecture of my exi...
Auto Tweeting Random Tweets 10 Jun 2011 | 02:02 am
The first twitter bot I created for a site was an ugly critter. It consisted of ~30 pre-constructed tweets that the cronjob would randomly go through. Some messages were double posted, some were too s...
Auto Tweeting User’s Actions on Your Site (Part 1) 8 Jun 2011 | 05:03 am
Automated tweets are the worst, right? What about intelligently automated tweets with a splash of randomness, some spinning as well as name and link dropping? You with me now? Let’s take a ride throug...
cURL on Local WAMP Returns Empty! (Solved) 28 May 2011 | 01:58 am
Okay so let me first clarify this is not specific to WAMP server but may well be an issue there as well. XAMPP may also have this problem but I don’t know because I don’t use it. I installed each Apac...
CodeIgniter Using _remap() and Named Methods 12 Apr 2011 | 03:45 am
One of the most important methods I’ve found in CodeIgnitor is the _remap() method. When you use it within a controller it hiijacks all other methods and does your bidding. This is great when you have...
Duplicate or Clone a CodeIgniter Controller, by Extending it! 8 Apr 2011 | 05:35 am
I was working on a project a while back using CodeIgnitor and had a kind-of unusual case where I was developing two completely identical controllers and I needed to streamline the way I updated them. ...
Nice Unit aka. Nice Ads – AdSense Link Units as Tabs 13 Jan 2011 | 08:20 am
Spend 2 years at an ad network and you start to notice the clever ways that companies, designers and webmasters implement their ads. Here's one example that I though was particularly clever, though pr...
