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Re: Shire Stories | CuriousWorks

Wil Tan — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:02:20 -0000

this is a test.

Re: http://example.com/

Wil Tan — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 02:54:08 -0000

this is interesting..

Re: MasterCard SecureCode and securesuite.net

Wil Tan — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:39:25 -0000

What I meant was that "high security" domains like these should really be managed properly. If you look up the whois for google.com, you'll find the clientDeleteProhibited, clientTransferProhibited, clientUpdateProhibited statuses. The server* counterparts are statuses placed onto the domain by the registry -- Verisign in this case, as part of a special "registry lock" service. This gives you additional layers of security against some forms of attacks.

Re: MasterCard SecureCode and securesuite.net

Wil Tan — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:50:55 -0000

Sad. For mission-critical domains like this, you'd think they will make sure it doesn't expire within a year and they'd put on the "clientUpdateProhibited" and "clientDeleteProhibited" statuses as well.

Re: http://localhost:8000/

Wil Tan — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:14:02 -0000

hey nice blog!

Re: Redis Sharding with Erlang

Wil Tan — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:27:56 -0000

Consistent hashing means less keys have to be migrated when adding nodes, but one would still have to either take down time, or take special care in the application.

Re: 5 Open Data Apps That Are Improving Our Cities

Wil Tan — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 06:26:52 -0000

Thank you for featuring MojiPage, Chris. We are very excited and looking forward to launching the Open311 widget for SF. For the benefit of readers who may want to try it out, please note that we have yet to receive the production API credentials from the city government so the widget is not currently live.

Edit: we *did* receive the production keys, and will take the widget live in a few days.

Re: The Internet On Airplanes, Something To get used to

Wil Tan — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:45:12 -0000

I can't wait for more airlines to offer in-flight Internet. When the "Connexion by Boeing" service was offered by Singapore Airlines, I thought at that time is was imminent. Then they pulled the plug :(

Re: Some Notes on Distributed Key Stores

Wil Tan — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:13:07 -0000

Thanks for the nice practical roundup.

For the idle socket hanging issue, do you think it's an issue with pytyrant or tyrant itself?

I submitted a patch to pytyrant that could potentially be related to it, basically the client hangs when the socket is closed (which could happen on idle connections.)

http://code.google.com/p/py...

See if it fixes your issue?

=wil

Re: Implementing OAuth is still too hard… but it doesn’t have to be

Wil Tan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:58:20 -0000

Thanks for presenting this action list. I agree that these will tremendously improve the developer accessibility for OAuth.

Regarding terminology confusion, that's very true with the sheer number of tokens coupled with possibly name collision with app-specific parameters (which could be called "api_key", or "secret"). It makes it so easy to get a typo or function parameters swapped. On FireEagle, two different access tokens (user-specific and general access) are used, which may make things worse.

I haven't dabbled in OAuth much, but my first experience was implementing the Fire Eagle widget on MojiPage. We use the Python OAuth library, and provide useful abstraction for the widget (also written in Python) so that it needs only call a few functions. Debugging was a tad harder than the usual web app, but it was a smooth ride on the whole.

Re: What happened to NakedJen on Facebook? (Scripting News)

Wil Tan — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:22:54 -0000

I've got a friend who was devastated after his account was deleted, for no apparent reason. Facebook's value comes from the social graph and other content such as photos and comments that their users have painstakingly built. Deleting an account without giving any reason or allowing correction is as good as Facebook storming into your apartment and tear up all your photos and letters.

This should serve as a warning to people who invest their social data to Facebook.

Re: Upcoming Conferences

Wil Tan — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:34:32 -0000

Great, looking forward to try it out!

Re: Upcoming Conferences

Wil Tan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:21:38 -0000

Jack, great talks you have lined up.

The link to StanzIQ is broken. StanzIQ looks interesting, care to give us the spoiler?

Re: louisgray.com: FriendFeed Friday Tips #4: How & Why to Add Google Talk Status

Wil Tan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:08:55 -0000

Louis, have you tried the MojiPage XMPP bot for FriendFeed? Information can be found here: http://mojipage.com/pages/bot/

Re: MojiPage Releases Mobile FriendFeed Widget

Wil Tan — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:12:42 -0000

It does, actually. The only thing I'm missing at this point is support for subscribing to a user.

Re: MojiPage Releases Mobile FriendFeed Widget

Wil Tan — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:20:00 -0000

Hello Corvida,

Thanks so much for your review.

This is a first cut, and we do plan to implement more features by incorporating feedback from power users such as yourself. Of course, being a mobile site, the challenge is to provide as much power as possible without compromising the page loading time.

Over the weekend, we hope to at least add comment and likes, and to link to profile pages. We'll announce them once it is completed.

Re: FriendFeed API announced (Scripting News)

Wil Tan — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:44:31 -0000

MojiPage has just released a mobile widget for FriendFeed using their excellent API. You can see a demo of it here: http://sb.mojipage.com/u/wil1/