Archive for June, 2007

Monoball
Sunday, June 17th, 2007

The following is a work of fiction, parable, and parody. If you quote it in Wikipedia I will laugh at you.

The sun is high in the sky, the scaffolding freshly chromed, the widgets and gizmos arrayed in an intricate latticework across the field, and your favorite slugger is standing proud at the platform. [...]

Python-twitter 0.4
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

I released python-twitter 0.4 earlier today (homepage, download, source, docs).
This release brings the library back in sync with all of the new Twitter API functionality, closes the open issues, and introduces several new features.
Highlights include:

Unicode support
Support for sending direct messages, adding friends, featured users, etc.
Stopped using setuptools
Cleaner auth model
And more…

If you can do something via [...]

On APP and GData
Monday, June 11th, 2007

My friend Dare Obasanjo recently wrote about some of the differences that he perceived between the latest draft Atom Publishing Protocol specification and the GData protocol specifications.
A few of his observations were correct, and a few were incorrect, so I thought it might help if I shared my understanding of GData’s relationship with APP.
First, GData [...]

A big OpenSearch roundup
Thursday, June 7th, 2007

In lieu of having an official OpenSearch blog, I wanted to take a moment for a quick roundup of some of the highlights from the last several months in OpenSearch.
First, and perhaps the most fun because it includes video, Tantek Çelik posted a videoblog about his experience using the OpenSearch format to plug the Technorati [...]