Comments for Aral Balkan http://aralbalkan.com Passionate geekisms. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:46:31 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 Comment on PayPal vs. Google Checkout: countries supported by umair http://aralbalkan.com/1350/comment-page-1#comment-259732 umair Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:46:31 +0000 http://aralbalkan.com/1350#comment-259732 when paypal is coming to Pakistan! when paypal is coming to Pakistan!

]]> Comment on xAuthTwitterEngine library and demo by Marco Papa http://aralbalkan.com/3133/comment-page-1#comment-259723 Marco Papa Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:32:17 +0000 http://aralbalkan.com/?p=3133#comment-259723 Once I got approved: sutorius, Mar 18 05:14 pm (PDT): Hi, Thanks for your interest in XAuth. Your application now has the ability to use XAuth, and you can read the documentation here: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-oauth-access_token-for-xAuth . Thanks, Brian ---- EVERYTHING WORKED!!!! Frigging great job Aral. Once I got approved:

sutorius, Mar 18 05:14 pm (PDT):
Hi,

Thanks for your interest in XAuth. Your application now has the ability to use XAuth, and you can read the documentation here: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-oauth-access_token-for-xAuth .

Thanks,
Brian

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EVERYTHING WORKED!!!! Frigging great job Aral.

]]> Comment on xAuthTwitterEngine library and demo by Marco Papa http://aralbalkan.com/3133/comment-page-1#comment-259718 Marco Papa Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:12:37 +0000 http://aralbalkan.com/?p=3133#comment-259718 I forgot to read one and open the support ticket to activate xAuth. Let's see if they approve the request. I forgot to read one and open the support ticket to activate xAuth. Let’s see if they approve the request.

]]> Comment on xAuthTwitterEngine library and demo by Marco Papa http://aralbalkan.com/3133/comment-page-1#comment-259717 Marco Papa Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:57:24 +0000 http://aralbalkan.com/?p=3133#comment-259717 Aral, Just downloaded your test app. I am currently using Matt Gemmel code without xAuth/. I created a "shell" Twitter app with key and secret, but it unclear what values should be entered in the Settings page. I set up Application type "Client", default access "read/write". Should I "check" the value for "Use Twitter for login"? Also what should be the values of Application Website and and Website? Other types of XAuth (mYSqpce, for exa,ple), use iPhone Schemas to callback the app. This one does not seem to work that way. The application Details lists these values: Request token URL http://twitter.com/oauth/request_token Access token URL http://twitter.com/oauth/access_token Authorize URL http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize Are these correct? I still get "Authentication Error, please check your username password and try again". I am using the correct username / password that works with apps that do not use xAuth. Please advise. Aral,

Just downloaded your test app. I am currently using Matt Gemmel code without xAuth/. I created a “shell” Twitter app with key and secret, but it unclear what values should be entered in the Settings page. I set up Application type “Client”, default access “read/write”. Should I “check” the value for “Use Twitter for login”?

Also what should be the values of Application Website and and Website? Other types of XAuth (mYSqpce, for exa,ple), use iPhone Schemas to callback the app. This one does not seem to work that way.

The application Details lists these values:

Request token URL
http://twitter.com/oauth/request_token

Access token URL
http://twitter.com/oauth/access_token

Authorize URL
http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize

Are these correct? I still get “Authentication Error, please check your username password and try again”. I am using the correct username / password that works with apps that do not use xAuth. Please advise.

]]> Comment on Why do people hate Microsoft? by Anon Zmouse http://aralbalkan.com/744/comment-page-1#comment-259711 Anon Zmouse Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:13:38 +0000 http://aralbalkan.com/744#comment-259711 What part of: THE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN BILL F'N GATES' POCKETS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SPENT ON SOFTWARE *TESTING* do you idiots not understand. What part of: THE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN BILL F’N GATES’ POCKETS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SPENT ON SOFTWARE *TESTING* do you idiots not understand.

]]> Comment on How to revert (roll back) to a previous revision with Subversion by Best of all... http://aralbalkan.com/1381/comment-page-2#comment-259702 Best of all... Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:40:03 +0000 http://aralbalkan.com/1381#comment-259702 svn merge -c -NUM . (svn 1.6 and onwards) svn merge -c -NUM .

(svn 1.6 and onwards)

]]> Comment on What is SWX, how does it work, and where is it going? by Karay Akar http://aralbalkan.com/1006/comment-page-1#comment-259694 Karay Akar Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:31:00 +0000 http://aralbalkan.com/1006#comment-259694 Can we login flickr without browser with AS2? how can the users connect to flickr with their own username & password? Our embedded system doesn't have browser. Thanks Can we login flickr without browser with AS2? how can the users connect to flickr with their own username & password?
Our embedded system doesn’t have browser. Thanks

]]> Comment on Amsterdam and Ghent was so much fun! by okey Oyunu http://aralbalkan.com/1490/comment-page-1#comment-259692 okey Oyunu Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:59:57 +0000 http://aralbalkan.com/1490#comment-259692 teşekkürler Aral ... teşekkürler Aral …

]]> Comment on Why learning ColdFusion today is a waste of time. by Marc Chapaux http://aralbalkan.com/1864/comment-page-3#comment-259683 Marc Chapaux Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:21:26 +0000 http://aralbalkan.com/1864#comment-259683 CF doesn't have lexical scoping and CF doesn't have mandatory variable declarations. CF applications tend to have been written by newcomers to programming who had no formal training in programming and little experience or knowledge of modern programming. Do not consider a career in maintaining legacy CF applications unless you enjoy maintaining ill-designed spaghetti code. I won’t mention some minor issues, such that CF tends to insert a lot of whitespace in the generated pages. Or, if you have repeating controls having the same name in a form (which is perfectly legal), CF makes them available as a single 'list' variable with the various values in a comma-separated list. This just does not work if the input can contain commas (when your input is plain text, duh). There are workarounds of course, such as accessing the raw POST data using GetHttpRequestData(). Then they come and tell you that CF allows you to do a lot in a few lines of codes – they just forget that you’ll have to write your own function to parse the raw HTTP request. And of course the syntax of CFML is ugly, while the similarity of CFScript to JavaScript is superficial and can be a nasty trap – the '&' operator for instance has a completely different meaning in CFScript than in JavaScript. The FuseBox framework /in my own experience/ only makes matters worse -- FuseBox can make it very difficult to understand and maintain an application. I use CF almost every day (because I have to) and my humble opinion is that CF has to be the worst programming language out there. I just feel relieved when I can code in either JavaScript (on the client side) or PL/SQL (on the back-end DBMS). And ColdFusion is not even free. The ultimate workaround for the problems of ColdFusion and the uncertainty regarding its future is simple: do not use it, do not buy it, do not learn it. And for you managers who happen to be in charge of a large legacy of CF applications, my advice is simple: despair. Sit down on the floor and cry, because you need CF experts and they are becoming increasingly scarce on the market. CF doesn’t have lexical scoping and CF doesn’t have mandatory variable declarations.
CF applications tend to have been written by newcomers to programming who had no formal training in programming and little experience or knowledge of modern programming. Do not consider a career in maintaining legacy CF applications unless you enjoy maintaining ill-designed spaghetti code.
I won’t mention some minor issues, such that CF tends to insert a lot of whitespace in the generated pages.
Or, if you have repeating controls having the same name in a form (which is perfectly legal), CF makes them available as a single ‘list’ variable with the various values in a comma-separated list. This just does not work if the input can contain commas (when your input is plain text, duh). There are workarounds of course, such as accessing the raw POST data using GetHttpRequestData(). Then they come and tell you that CF allows you to do a lot in a few lines of codes – they just forget that you’ll have to write your own function to parse the raw HTTP request.
And of course the syntax of CFML is ugly, while the similarity of CFScript to JavaScript is superficial and can be a nasty trap – the ‘&’ operator for instance has a completely different meaning in CFScript than in JavaScript.
The FuseBox framework /in my own experience/ only makes matters worse — FuseBox can make it very difficult to understand and maintain an application.
I use CF almost every day (because I have to) and my humble opinion is that CF has to be the worst programming language out there. I just feel relieved when I can code in either JavaScript (on the client side) or PL/SQL (on the back-end DBMS).
And ColdFusion is not even free.
The ultimate workaround for the problems of ColdFusion and the uncertainty regarding its future is simple: do not use it, do not buy it, do not learn it.
And for you managers who happen to be in charge of a large legacy of CF applications, my advice is simple: despair. Sit down on the floor and cry, because you need CF experts and they are becoming increasingly scarce on the market.

]]> Comment on tLicense Twitterformat Proposal by Aral http://aralbalkan.com/3155/comment-page-1#comment-259682 Aral Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:18:56 +0000 http://aralbalkan.com/?p=3155#comment-259682 Hey guys, thanks for the heads up – I fixed the post (you're right, it was a copy/paste issue!) :) Hey guys, thanks for the heads up – I fixed the post (you’re right, it was a copy/paste issue!) :)

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