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If you attended the Big Social in 2012, you may have attended the sessions outlining how to build a custom polling application. In those sessions, we walked through each step as we added new functionality and integrated more deeply with the Evolution...

Many of the Telligent Evolution platform REST endpoints allow for for including a file attachment with your create or update requests. Examples include adding or updating a blog post, adding or updating a forum thread, adding or updating a media gallery...

An interesting conversation sprang up in the Telligent Evolution platform developer support forums this week about the development of older style ascx controls/widgets vs newer style nVelocity widgets. Patrick Mason and Adam Seabridge provided lots of...

Need CAPTCHA for your Telligent Community 6.0+ site? Adam Seabridge of Building Blocks has you covered: Computer Says No – a CAPTCHA for Telligent Community 6.0 ...read more

I get a couple of questions a week through my blog’s comments or content pages similar to this: “I love the Flickr widget, but how can I get it to [… do something custom…]?” I try to answer as many questions...

Jim Holmes asked me to write an article about testing web services for his great 31 Days of Testing blog series and I gladly did so: 31 Days of Testing – Day 16: Testing Web Services The article ended up being less about testing web services...

Miso recently launched the initial phase of their API and make use of OAuth (similar to Twitter’s implementation) to allow user’s to authenticate with Miso and authorize your application to act on their behalf. The documentation is well written...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

This isn’t a rant about the proliferation of mobile devices and how they are going to do everything except change your cat’s litter box in the future. It’s simply about improving your design chops. I’ve decided that new feature work should start with...

But alas, there will always be a group of people who think PayPal and Bump Payments are a HORRIBLE idea. And there is a very specific name for that group� MOOCHERS! via phandroid.com Like the author I wonder if you'll be able to bump...

Over the weekend I finished Rework and figured I’d share some quotes from it as well. This book was excellent and the perfect complimentary read to Linchpin .  There was a lot of overlap and similar concepts.  While Linchpin was more psychology...

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...

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...

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...