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RSS Feed from Twitter Search with PHP

Monday, March 4th, 2013

Twitter is removing support for RSS feeds in a few days. If you actually used the RSS feed feature of the original Twitter API this is disappointing. Twitter wants to know who is making every single request to their API whereas RSS is fairly anonymous…

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Finding audio previews for album tracks in iTunes with PHP

Sunday, March 3rd, 2013

My mashup codebase has not been updated in years but even without that APIs change their policies and the technique documented below probably no longer works. Sorry if you were counting on this code to solve all your problems, you may have to hire a developer to fix this or try another API…

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Searching YouTube with PHP

Sunday, February 17th, 2013

This was one of the cooler features I implemented in my mashup codebase. Alas Google went and changed YouTube’s API. I quickly tried to fix it, but when I could not and no one on Stack Overflow could help the problem got set aside while I focussed on passing all three CFA® exams…

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Quotation Collection Mashup

Saturday, September 8th, 2012

I’m a collector. I’m not a hoarder because I display my collections. One of the things I’ve steadily collected over the last 15 or 20 years is quotations. Not “quotes”, quotes is a verb…

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Updated my PHP mashup code

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

As my latest period of unemployment continues to lengthen I’ve worked on an ever larger collection of PHP code that I’ve written and used to make several web mashups…

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