Eat Sleep and Code

I've released the first publicly available version of the Twitlicious service over at twitlicio.us. You can sign up for an account which will allow you to enter your Twitter and Delicious information and will automatically save links that you tweet (and tag as @twls) to your Delicious bookmarks.

Twitlicio.us also got a mention over on the WebEnabled blog.

I've spent portions of the last couple of days running down a bug where, erratically, a string that I was dealing with would all of a sudden be blanked out in favor of 'n/a'. Being as that wasn't my desired result, I finally identified that applying the input filter to strip out unwanted HTML tags was causing this to happen, on some cron hits.


$text = check_markup($text, FILTER_FORMAT_DEFAULT);


This week I needed a faster way of testing my XMLRPC service than to inject data and wait for the automated client on the other end to poll every minute or so, so I did some research to find out how to manually invoke the service.

Turns out that cURL can do a pretty good job of it, in a nutshell, here's how you do it:

LarryBoy:~ jason$ curl -X POST -H 'Content-type: text/xml' -d @xmlfile.xml http://example.com/xmlrpc.php

Sample XML is attached, in the event that it's helpful.

I also forgot to mention back at the end of January (my below post on being laid off has been near the top of my blog for over a month now!) - I landed a job at Yoursphere Media, and I'm happily working away on Drupal-based solutions for our social network and related infrastructure.

My official duties involve quality control and building test harnesses, but I'm doing a bunch of new feature development as well. I'm very happy to be working with a software team again; I didn't realize how much I missed that.