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New software and updates coming soon

Patrick — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:27:59 +0000

Im preparing to release some new software over the weekend, as well as some revisions to existing software, mainly phptweetpic and twitterfollow.

The updates to twitterfollow will include more controls and some other features, and tweetpic will include an oauth version as well as some bug fixes and admin area redesign.

Stay tuned!

WV ReTweeter Updates

Patrick — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:43:57 +0000

Just made a couple updates to the WV ReTweeters (@beckleyrt, @princetonrt, @charlestonrt, @morgantownrt, and @huntingtonrt)

The code now appends each message with RT @theauthor, where “theauthor” is the name of the original poster. The pipe for the feeds have been modified to IGNORE all tweets that start with RT. This is in response to the programs retweeting their own tweets.

The messages are also now limited to a set number of characters before they are cut off and a URL is generated to the original message. This is in response to some double URL’s and triple URL situations where the overflow was automatically linked, and then the link was then linked.

Thats all for now folks!

wvurl api update

Patrick — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:53:28 +0000

Ran into a unique problem when i switched servers from innohost back to hostgator(more on that later). Aparently, for some reason passing a full url to wvurl’s api (wvurl.com/api-create.php) caused the server to return index.php and its subsequent headers.

After much time spent with support finding out if it was something server side to blame, I found a workaround by using str_replace to replace the colon in the url, with %3A and then pass the URL to the script.

This was a problem because three autotweet programs (beckleyrt, wvjobs, and wvurl twitter) all rely on the wvurl api to generate their URL’s.

The site is now updated and the API examples reflect the changes.