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Archive for August, 2009
MLB onBase: An Adobe AIR App
I have talked before about some of the Major League Baseball apps on this blog before. They have added another application to their arsenal this week: MLB.com OnBase. This application is built on Adobe AIR and is one slick little app. When you first start the app you can choose your favorite team or teams [...]
Clean web.config Files in .NET 4.0
If you have experience in programming in ASP.NET over the last few years, I am sure you have noticed how bloated the web.config file has become. Most of it is very confusing looking lines of various calls to load modules and handlers. It appears that is changing in .NET 4.0. Microsoft guru Scott Guthrie is [...]
Installing Visual Studio SP1 on Windows 7
Since installing Windows 7 RTM I have been slowly reinstalling all of my development programs. The only one that has given me a fit has been SP1 for Visual Studio 2008. The base program installed just fine, but SP1 failed every time. Even after trying some suggestions I saw while searching, nothing worked. But, earlier [...]
UberTwitter Releases New Update – Adds Multiple Accounts and Ads
Most of you know that my favorite Twitter client for my BlackBerry has been UberTwitter. I started using it since their first beta release and have been an avid user ever since. Yesterday saw a new update to the application, Beta 4. Two items included in this update jumped right out at me.
Twitter API Issues
It appears that Twitter is still experiencing some issues with some API calls. UberTwitter is still not returning any data on my BlackBerry, and my news aggregators that post to Twitter using TweetSharp are returning nothing via the response. I would take a guess that these issues are related to the DDoS attacks yesterday. Hopefully [...]
Today’s DDoS Attacks Due to Cyber Warfare?
I am sure that most of you are aware of today’s attack against Twitter. The attack crippled the service for a good portion of the day. News is coming out now about the attack, and according to an article by The New York Times the attack could be related to cyber warfare. The article cites [...]
Twitter is Down
Twitter seems to be experiencing a rather massive outage this morning. The social media site has been down for around an hour and a half. There is no word on what the issue is or when it will be resolved. Twitter’s official status blog states they are looking into the issue: Twitter Status
ESPN’s New Social Media Policy: Good or Bad?
Yesterday afternoon ESPN released a memo to it’s employees detailing guidelines in their social media policy. I’m not sure they were really guidelines, but appear to say you cannot participate in any social media conversations that involve sports (without prior approval from your department head). You can judge the policy yourself by reading the memo [...]
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