“Failed to validate oauth signature and token” on Twitter Oauth – Check Your Clock!

I have been doing a bit of Twitter development for work in the last few months. Twitter is the first time I have worked with OAuth and it was a bit to wrap my head around. I wanted to tinker around doing some of my own apps since it seems pretty easy now. However, my first attempt at getting it going was a headache. Long story short, if you are unable to get your Request Token, check to make sure...

I Feel Like The Edgecrusher

The band Fear Factory had a song a few years back called “Edgecrusher”. So the story goes, they ran into a street performer while on tour in japan who called himself the “Edgecrusher”. His schtick was that you would give him electronic devices and he would destroy them – I assume as a bit of performace art. I fell like that should be my new title lately… ...

Jquery AjaxForm ResetForm Callback Annoyance

The last few days at work I have been using the jquery ajaxform plugin extensively. The Malsup docs have been valuable. However, there have been certain things that I have had some issue with. It might be one of those “how do you google for things that do not exist”… Anyway, today’s hiccup was trying to execute some code when the user hits the cancel button on a form that...

F1 Overnight Challenge from Sierra Bravo Returns

Last year March, I participated in the F1 Overnight web challenge, a 24 hour+ programming comepetition to benefit Minnesota non-profits hosted by Sierra Bravo. My team had the pleasure of working with REDA (Riverview Economic Development Association). It was a lot of fun and I am looking forward to doing it again this year. Registration opened over the weekend for the event to be held February...

Programming Math101 : Modular Arithmetic

The below is a article I wrote for TCPHP mailing list in 2005. I thought of it today and decided to re-post it. ——————- Hi, This is the first part in a small series of requested math  articles  as it pertains to programming. Please critique the  article and give  me feed back offlist. Let me know if this is  too mathy, too ...