Twitter oAuth from C#

A while back I was working on a ‘post to Twitter’ function that used the original Basic Authentication that the Twitter V1.0 API allowed. Unfortunately, at the end of Aug 2010 they discontinued support for this and forced everyone to use their oAuth authentication. There are a number of services…

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Generate sitemaps using PowerShell

I was discussing ‘googlability’  – a new word I made up meaning ‘the ability to find via Google’ – of our knowledgebase with one of the technical guys at work.It seems that we seldom get matches in Google searches (and the built in search is somewhat lame) – I was…

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WebApp KeepAlive Service

Recently I have been working with DotNetNuke. This is a superb open source CMS platform running on ASP.NET with a SQL back end, simple to install, easy to use and there is a thriving community around it. It is also available in a ‘Professional’ version which costs around £2000 per…

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Google Results Ranking

Disclaimer: Screenscraping results like this probably contravening Google’s Terms of Use (or something) and I do not advocate that you do it – this is purely hypothetical, if I did want to do it, this is how I would go about it  😉 Further Disclaimer: The results page formats could…

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Remote Control via Twitter

Twitter is one of those applications / services that I’ve had trouble getting to grips with. For me it seems it’s like shouting about what you are doing right now to a huge audience that is not listening. Who really cares that @kjhughes is heading to the shops to get…

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