Posts tagged ‘drtwoot’
Dr. Twoot and Twitpocalypse II
December 23rd, 2010 at 11:00 pm by Dr. Drang
Back in mid-October, Twitter warned developers that another integer overflow problem was looming and that they should prepare their code to deal with it. I didn’t heed the warning, and for the past couple of weeks, Dr. Twoot has been behaving strangely. I think I have things fixed now. The original Twitpocalypse occurred back in…
Smart quotes in JavaScript
November 18th, 2010 at 8:55 pm by Dr. Drang
With my Twitter client Dr. Twoot back on its feet, I wanted to add a smart quotes feature that would give my tweets typographically correct quotation marks and apostrophes. I figured someone would have a JavaScript library or function just waiting for me to download and plug into my code, but alas, I ended up…
Son of the Return of Dr. Twoot
November 16th, 2010 at 9:44 pm by Dr. Drang
I’ve spent three months in the Twitter wilderness, but now I’m back home. I finally fixed Dr. Twoot, my HTML/CSS/JavaScript/JQuery/Fluid-based Twitter client, so it works with the dreaded OAuth. The fix didn’t go the way I planned, and Dr. Twoot has, unfortunately, become more complicated. I thought I’d be able to do all the OAuth…
HelTweetica
August 25th, 2010 at 10:02 pm by Dr. Drang
As the OAuthcalypse draws nigh, it’s looking more and more like I won’t have time to get Dr. Twoot updated before Twitter closes the door on Basic Authentication. Plan B is to use HelTweetica, an application I mentioned a couple of month ago and which has since been updated and improved. Heltweetica is both free…
Reports of Dr. Twoot’s death…
June 23rd, 2010 at 4:00 pm by Dr. Drang
…were premature. OK, there was only one report and it was by me. But the statement stands—Dr. Twoot is alive and may survive the coming OAuthcalypse. A combination of three things have allowed Dr. Twoot to hang in there: The vuvuzela effect. Twitter has been seeing so much traffic for the World Cup, it decided…
A new Twitter SSB
June 12th, 2010 at 9:13 pm by Dr. Drang
With the coming requirement to use OAuth to sign on to Twitter, I’ve had to abandon my Dr. Twoot client program and have shifted to a new Fluid-based SSB of the Twitter home page. I’m using a userscript to reformat the page and make it narrower. Two reasons I couldn’t adapt Dr. Twoot to OAuth:…
Dr. Twoot authentication redux
April 2nd, 2010 at 11:30 am by Dr. Drang
I decided that last night’s configuration instructions for Dr. Twoot (the world’s greatest Twitter client) were unnecessarily long, so I wrote a quick little configuration script that prompts you for your Twitter username and password and prints out the required authentication lines. The script is called config.py: 1: #!/usr/bin/python 2: 3: from base64 import b64encode…
Dr. Twoot authentication
April 2nd, 2010 at 12:10 am by Dr. Drang
When I got back from vacation, I noticed that Dr. Twoot (the world’s greatest Twitter client) had stopped working. Authentication problems. I suspect the most recent update to Safari changed the way WebKit handles Basic Authentication and that’s what caused the breakage. The fix was fairly simple after I did a bit of rooting around…
