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		<title>Fractional horsepower TwitterFeed? Sure, why not.</title>
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		<outline created="Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:32:37 GMT" ctSaves="14" flPreview="false" server="xmlrpc://cms.scripting2.com:5337/RPC2" storySerialNum="901" text="Fractional horsepower TwitterFeed? Sure, why not." type="scripting2Post" url="http://scripting.com/stories/2011/03/26/aFractionalHorsepowerTwitt.html" username="davewiner" versionClient="0.42" versionServer="0.42" whenLastSave="Sun, 27 Mar 2011 05:47:55 GMT">
			<outline created="Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:24:24 GMT" pgfnum="5841" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2011/03/26/celery.gif&quot; width=&quot;145&quot; height=&quot;221&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named celery.gif&quot;&gt;A few years ago I &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/davenet/1997/09/14/FractionalHorsepowerHTTPSe.html&quot;&gt;wrote&lt;/a&gt; about a fractional horsepower web server. "></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:25:12 GMT" pgfnum="5842" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/stories/2009/03/03/fractionalHorsepowerTwitte.html&quot;&gt;Then in 2009&lt;/a&gt;, about fractional horsepower Twitters (which we're getting mighty close to now in 2011). "></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:40:05 GMT" pgfnum="5853" text="You can also see what we're working on as a fractional horsepower &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/stories/2011/02/13/strengtheningTheInternet.html&quot;&gt;news network&lt;/a&gt;. "></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:25:59 GMT" pgfnum="5843" text="&quot;Fractional horsepower&quot; is a Steve Jobs idea, and it's a good one. Before he came out with his fractional horsepower computer, also known as the Apple II, computers were thought to be big things that few people could manage, and had limited applications. These days we carry more computing power in our pockets than the data center I learned how to program in had. But they still &lt;i&gt;feel&lt;/i&gt; small and personal. "></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:27:05 GMT" pgfnum="5844" text="There aren't many things that can't benefit from being fractionalized. "></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:27:29 GMT" pgfnum="5845" text="Anyway, one of the big components of the system I'm working on is TwitterFeed, or something like it. It maps a feed onto a Twitter account. The problem is it takes up to 1/2 hour for it to recognize something new has published to my feed. That's okay for me, I really don't mind. But I don't imagine too many users buying into that. We simply &lt;i&gt;had&lt;/i&gt; to get it faster. "></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:28:49 GMT" pgfnum="5846" text="Sigh. "></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:28:52 GMT" pgfnum="5847" text="That's the feeling I had this morning, when I decided to dust off my OAuth code and write my own bridge, one that would watch over a few hundred feeds, and provide instant connections using rssCloud. "></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:29:37 GMT" pgfnum="5848" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2011/03/26/radishSpirit.gif&quot; width=&quot;145&quot; height=&quot;212&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named radishSpirit.gif&quot;&gt;Let me say this right now: OAuth is a bitch."></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:29:44 GMT" pgfnum="5849" text="A nasty ugly ornery hellacious mean-spirited unfaithful, venge-filled, hate-filled &lt;i&gt;Nazi&lt;/i&gt; bitch. "></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:34:56 GMT" pgfnum="5852" text="Another way of saying the same thing: OAuth has no honor."></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:30:16 GMT" pgfnum="5850" text="Every time I pick it up it's broken, and I spend five hours wrestling it back into its box. And while I was doing it, reading the Twitter docs that say this is deprecated and that is depreciated -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/imagesScriptingCom/archiveScriptingCom/2007/08/18/middle-finger.jpg&quot;&gt;etc&lt;/a&gt;. So I know in a few months all this shit is going to break too. This &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/imagesScriptingCom/archiveScriptingCom/2007/08/18/middle-finger.jpg&quot;&gt;is&lt;/a&gt; why I wanted to let TwitterFeed worry about it. And I still would like &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/imagesScriptingCom/archiveScriptingCom/2007/08/18/middle-finger.jpg&quot;&gt;to&lt;/a&gt; do that. "></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:31:39 GMT" pgfnum="5851" text="But for now, I've got a test server running, moving all my linkblog posts to my &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/#!/bullmancuso&quot;&gt;test account&lt;/a&gt; on Twitter. I'll tell you this, when I see how &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2011/03/26/niceandfast.gif&quot;&gt;fast&lt;/a&gt; it is, I forget about how much time I've wasted coding OAuth. "></outline>
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