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Sometimes the web service you want to consume is locked behind Windows (NTLM) authentication. I struggled for a bit trying to figure out how to use NTLM authentication with an HttpClient request in a sample Android application. It looked like I had everything...

A couple of weeks ago I switched from a Blackberry to an Android phone. I was a little anxious about venturing into the unknown of Android development, but I couldn’t fight the temptation of downloading the Android SDK and hacking more than a few...

Chatroulette: chat via webcam with random (sometimes naked) strangers by Jay Hathaway ( RSS feed ) Feb 16th 2010 at 4:00PM Chatroulette is the hot new site that throws you into a webcam chat with another randomly-selected user, until you hit "next"...

Thanks to the birth of our first son I’ve been granted a lot of reading/feeding time.  You could say that this was baby Gabe’s first book.  I can’t say what he thought about the book, but I can say that I really enjoyed it.  It was the...

[UPDATE: You do NOT need a Paid Yahoo Plus account for this to work... the example below is done with a FREE Yahoo Mail account:] To set up Yahoo E-Mail on the Motorola Droid: Make sure Wi-Fi is turned off Press the E-Mail icon (the default...

I have tried a variety of tools for reading my Google Reader feeds on my iPhone. Google’s mobile browser – works well, but requires a constant connection and little third party tool integration Feeds – likely the most disappointing app I have ever purchased...

Someone recently asked me how I created the Telligent Community 5.0 demo video that you can watch here .  The thing that made this the easiest was TechSmith’s Camtasia Studio product .  Using their fine software as a base I was able to use the...

That’s a fairly long title to describe this: 1280296860 I found this value in a field of a JSON response from a web service where I was expecting a date. I’m used to seeing 13 digit timestamps so this date surprised me and looked a little...

There are a lot of ways you can customize the look and feel of your Telligent Community and Telligent Enterprise site. While there is a lot of content on this site, we thought it would be helpful to put it all in one easy to read guide. So today, I...

Apparently the iPhone club ran out of cool people to "tag" in their little discussion about what pages they browse to most frequently on their expensive phones. Well, since my phone has had an SDK for a lot longer than theirs I'm going to...

When configuring our Selenium tests to run out build server, one issue I ran into is that there wasn’t a lot out there in terms of how to get this set up. A few people had posted about having done it, but not how they did it. Overall, it isn’t...

It’s probably no surprise that most of the Telligenti are iPhone, MacBook and now iPad junkies. But we Telligenti are open-minded for the most part and we’re committed to using and abusing “best of breed” solutions – we now use Solr (on Java) for our...

The updated version of the Customization Guide for the Telligent Evolution Platform for version 5.5 is now available.  It outlines the changes made to theme and widget support in 5.5 as well as guidelines on how to use new features to implement customizations...

A very interesting announcement by the folks at MySpace : Today, we are open-sourcing Qizmt, an internally developed framework for distributed computation created by the Data Mining team here at MySpace. Qizmt can be used for many operations that...

via css-tricks.com The "Build Your Own Social Home!" post on css-tricks.com shows a couple of very simple scripts for displaying a Twitteer, Flickr, and Scrnshots widget using JavasScript only. Make sure to view the Demo to get the full effect...

Another new addition to the home page of my blog is the �Latest Videos� widget. It pulls in the 6 most recent videos that I have tagged as favorites on YouTube. It also has the option to pull in only videos that I have uploaded, but since I rarely...

I posted previously about undergoing a review of your true product strengths . But what if you realize there isn’t as much overlap between customer usage/demand and your product? You have to start over and try to redefine what your product strengths...

Yesterday I asked Joel Ross if he would write a blog post listing the apps that he liked and used on his Android phone. Android owners in our crowd are few and far between. Most developers that I know are iPhone junkies, the next largest group is probably...

Widgets in Telligent Community 5.0 and Telligent Enterprise provide a simple and powerful way to customize your UI (as well as give your users a bit of control). Recently, Ben Tiedt published two articles which will make creating your own widgets very...

That’s a fairly long title to describe this: 1280296860 I found this value in a field where I was expecting a date in a JSON response from a web service. I’m used to seeing 13 digit timestamps so this date surprised me and looked a little...

I recently got asked the following from a fellow Telligenti: “Is there a way to do a simple ‘are UserA and UserB friends’ check via REST? Seems the only way is to get a list of UserA's followers and see if it contains UserB...

My buddy, James C Bender , recently posted a good basic description of REST . If you're starting to get into Telligent's REST web services James' article will serve as a good starting point. Then you can head over to the Telligent Evolution...

Hmmm… I wonder what’s not easy to read, thin, and under a pound?!?!  Posted to Business Similar Posts Good Quotes from Rework The only tools you need spec software in 2009 Design for Mobile first and Full Screen Second ...read more

I know that is a horrible title but “How to fix your generated links that contain an extra subfolder name when using ISAPI_Rewrite to host more than one site on your OrcsWeb hosting account” seemed a little long. Now that I’ve stuffed...

10. You do have tests, don’t you? 9. It’s the right thing to do - tests build up technical debt, too 8. Keeping your tests lean, mean, clean and tidy ensures that writing new tests is easy and pain free 7. It’s a nice break...