Twitter recently switched off basic HTTP authentication, forcing developers to use the more complex (but hopefully safer) OAuth. There are lots of OAuth examples out there, but they all seem to focus on interactive apps, where the user is sent to Twitter to authenticate, and then the app uses the resulting access token to post [...]
Also tagged twitterIf I have images in .ps or .eps format, how can I tell how big they are? i.e. how big would they print out at ‘natural’ size without any scaling? If they have a correct bounding box defined — more likely with EPS than PS files — this bit of Perl will show you the [...]
Also tagged graphics, publishingRecently, one of our web servers fell victim to an apparent DoS attack, being hammered with hundreds of simultaneous dynamic page requests, far more than it’s specced to handle. To its credit, it stayed up, although it took about five minutes to log in via ssh, and when we spotted what was happening, the load [...]
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