Winnipeg Web Design

Building a Tweetblast1 Comment »

The amount of users on Twitter has increased dramatically recently! It is now a great way to get your product noticed, talked about (and if your very popular) trending. People like MacHeist often do a Tweetblast to spread the word about  something new and by participating you get something in return. In the tutorial you will see how to build an AJAX-ed twitter tweetblast that will search twitter for a hash tag, and if it has been found it will then show a thanks slide. There are many things you can adapt this script to do, such as putting the users username in the database to make sure a user can only Tweet once, finding that users pictures and show all the users that have tweeted so far or just sending an email to say thanks.
For this we just need an index page, some nice CSS, JavaScript for the AJAX, and PHP to search through Twitter using Twitters’ search API.

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Building a Simple PHP Mailing List0 Comments »

In this tutorial I will be showing you how to build a PHP mailing list web app. In this web app, users will be able to sign up. Once they do they will be added to the database and an unsubscribe hash will be generated. Admins will be able to send emails and add [unsubscribe] within the email in order to show a way for the subscribers to remove themselves. Javascript will also be added to the sign up process to make it nicer for the users.
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Username: alex
Password: password
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20 Source Code Hosting Sites You Should Know1 Comment »

Code sharing and hosting has become easier than ever before, now you can easily share your code with your friends and community. We will take a look at some of the popular sites.

Google Code Hosting

code.google.com Google code is the most popular hosting site which hosts the likes of jQuery and other popular libraries.

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Build a PHP Twitter Widget8 Comments »

Today I will be showing you how to use cURL to get your Twitter status and cache it into a file on your server. This file will then be read with JavaScript and displayed on the web-page. Before we start you can view a demo and download the final files below:

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The widget will have the following file structure

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Twitter URL Shortener: Part 20 Comments »

Welcome to part 2 of this tutorial. In this we will finish off what we started and add the extra functionality. By the end of this tutorial we will have:

1. Stats Page
2. Admin Page to delete items and make them inactive
3. Settings to add new users and change API key
4. Work with Tweetie 2 for the iPhone/iPod touch

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