Quickie on Nick Perkins Archive

Welcome The Project viewers #theprojecttv

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:31:35 +1000

So you saw me on The Project and you want to have your say. Here you go. Go nuts. Comment all you like.

Anything abusive, rude, demeaning or otherwise uncalled for will get trashed. Other than than, welcome.

DrupalDownunder 2011

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:52:42 +1000

I attended the DrupalDownunder conference which was held in Brisbane last weekend. Work paid for me to go since I have been working on a major Drupal project over the last couple of weeks.

Talking about Drupal and web development in general and attending all these great sessions have really driven home that my passion is in web development and web programming. Most of the development work that I do is in Excel so being able to shift into web development is going to take time and patience.

I need your help – tell Flickr to help block stalkers!

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:52:23 +1000

I don’t ask for much but today I need some help. Flickr is a great medium for posting photos and my wife is a major user of it, especially for her art work and outfit photos. Sadly some douche is being a stalker and creating multiple accounts every time she blocks them.

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I’m sure you can imagine that this would make someone feel very uncomfortable. But would you believe that flickr doesn’t have a block by IP Address option? In this day and age where static IP addresses are becoming more prevalent, this one step would help to eliminate her problem. Or at least make it harder for them to continue stalking.

The only way is oAuth!

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:27:34 +1000

A reminder for all those who deal with the Twitter API that the cut off has now passed for the end of Basic Auth access to Twitter. For the non-technical out there, this is where you give an application, or a website, your username and password and it logs into Twitter and does something for you.

From now on, all applications will need to use oAuth. I think this is much more secure as the application or website will direct you to Twitter, who would verify who you are and whether you give approval or not. Twitter will also tell the user who is seeking the authorisation, so as an end user I have a better idea of who gets to know what. Developers of Twitter applications have been moving towards this model for a while now and it was pretty much the de facto standard anyway.