January 2010
4 posts
An example iPhone Twitter app with OAuth...
UPDATE: a newer version of this post/app is now available.
As a companion to my post on how OAuth works with Twitter, I thought I’d write another OAuth client for my own needs. There are several OAuth Objective-C libraries out there, and I am using some code from one of them, OAuthConsumer. But I did not like that the libraries overload existing classes like NSURL or some Twitter...
Understanding the guts of Twitter's OAuth for...
In November 2009 at Web 2.0 Expo in New York, someone from Twitter said that they will be phasing out Basic Authentication for their API in favor of OAuth some time in 2010. (This may or may not be 100% correct; I remember reading/seeing this but could not find the reference.) But regardless of what exactly they said, it is clear that they are moving towards OAuth, as are many other providers.
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My bad iPhone 3GS purchasing experience
Today, I thought I’ll buy an iPhone 3GS. I somehow broke the headphone connector on my old one, and it was annoyingly slow. I like the new features too, like better camera. So, why not.
First, I went to a nearby AT&T store. They had the phone, but they said I can only buy it with AppleCare. (Rushing ahead, the Apple Store people told me this is a lie.) But I didn’t feel like...
