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Google’s Social Graph API crawls the web and extracts publicly available relationship data (edges) for people on various public pages marked up with XFN or FOAF metadata (nodes). Like many others, I have accounts on Twitter, Flickr, FriendFeed, etc., which are all great sources to crawl for social graph edge relationships, but a number [...]

I just uploaded the first release of python-twitter. Python twitter is a pure python wrapper around the Twitter API and data model.
Python twitter is as complete as I could make it. I spent the better part of a full day writing it, and coded it hoping to design something that will be a [...]

By the way, that last post was in the context of a series of ongoing experiments with the Atom Publishing Protocol.
I switched back to Java (over Python) for the back-end “Atom Store” portion. Not particularly because I wanted to write more Java, but because I really wanted to use the Abdera [...]

I just wasted the second of two weekend days spending more time setting up development tools and programming environments than I did accomplishing what I set out to do in the first place.
Specifically, I once again wrestled Eclipse and WTP and Maven and Junit and Subclipse and Hibernate and Spring [and, and, and...] into [...]

I believe I have worked out the segfault issues with Delancey, the service that augments del.icio.us to keep track of which bookmarks you click on the most. If you use Delancey and are still have random issues with it then please ping me.
On a related note, I spent a good part of the weekend [...]

Darren Chamberlain writes:

I was going to post this as a comment to the Blogging In Flock post, but I see you’ve closed comments on that post. It looks like Elias Torres has implemented an APP server for WordPress. I haven’t tried it, but it looks interesting, and Elias usually makes good stuff.

Thanks for [...]

I have been revisiting the tools I use in my preferred Java web application development stack. Some of these are being used by me for the first time (Velocity, Eclipse Web Tools Project) or replace older tools that served similar roles (Subversion, Maven, Spring Framework). Others are newer versions that introduce invaluable feature [...]