pinggr

UPDATED: Back to work! Bye Bye Pinggr

I wanted to learn how to use facebook connect and ended up using FBC, Twitter, OpenID, some complex htaccess, got sick enough by the process (not having a PHP MVC framework to call my own) that I started on php.technologyaces.com

I have code that won’t write itself…

Also, I decided to dump the simple framework…I think Code Igniter is simple enough. I don’t have time to play developer…I am in need of cracking stuff out quick!

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 PHP, career, facebook, mvc, pinggr, twitter No Comments

Weekend Coding

Since pinggr.com is my test-bed for facebook connect SSO I thought it would be cool to add support for another SSO implementation – openID. I have it working in theory but its not ready to add to the site. I should have it done in the next few days.

I’ve also been playing around with geo-coding and tracking. I wrote a wm6 client to capture geo-coordinates at specified intervals. The app posts the coordinates to http://technologyaces.com/gps for now. I have some really interesting ideas about how to best use that info….more on that once I finish the openID/pinggr.com stuff…

Lastly- I wrote a simple geo class to calculate the distance between two points…I am officially a GIS developer

Sunday, January 4th, 2009 facebook, pinggr No Comments

Rijndael, SQL Injection and the public

I made a few quick updates to pinggr this morning. First, I added a little encryption to the cookie. Not that it was ever a problem but this will rule out the ability to spoof local users. I also refractored some of the SQL stuff to cut off any possible SQL injection…

I also added a public timeline to pinggr. By pulling up http://pinggr.com/public you will see the most recent posts to pinggr.

Friday, January 2nd, 2009 pinggr No Comments

Pinggr Updates

I added Gravatar support, started auto-tweet for future updates. The data is captured in a pretty clean manner. I need to code the service now. I did a little general UI clean up too.

m.pinggr.com

I started on the mobile version. I am going to code the windows version first – because that is the type of phone I have at the moment. I’ll code the iphoen version soon after…because that’s the phone I want. The rewrite rules are in place and I’ll use the same – relatively simple – codebase that makes up pinggr.com. It should be nice and quick, nice to add to the resume :)

Friday, January 2nd, 2009 pinggr No Comments

Pinggr – meta micro blogging

Or just what I coded to I could lean how to use facebook connect…

Background

When facebook connect was released I wanted to code something to see how it all worked. I wanted to code something I could prop up relatively quick. Partly due to my lack of time but also because I have not released one single piece of software all year! I decided that, since I was just hopping into the land of twitter and I found it complicated to manage my twitter status and my facebook status, that I would write a small app that would allow me to update the status of each site either concurrently or independently.

Specifications

  • support facebook connect : (100%)
  • local uid/pass system : (80%)
  • update facebook status : (100%)
  • update twitter status : (100%)
  • update local status : (100%)
  • private status updates : (100%)
  • support tags : (100%)
  • support date/time updates (past, present and future) : (70%)
  • provide meaningful statistics : (30%)
  • support a public profile/time line page. http://pinggr.com/detroitpro : (50%)
  • mobile version : (10%)
  • simple API : (0%)

Out of scope

  • Clone twitter
    • I am thinking that it would more sit “on top” of the status update services.
  • Full “router” support aka: act like ping.fm

Features I would like to add in the future

  • Twitter style reply and dm
  • openid support
  • more status sites

Thursday, January 1st, 2009 development, facebook, jQuery, pinggr, twitter 2 Comments

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