Telligent Technology Community Team Blog

CAPTCHA for your Telligent Evolution 6.0+ site

2012-04-13T03:57:20Z

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...(read more)

Six steps to getting a blog author’s attention when asking for help

2012-04-02T04:13:00Z

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 ...read more...(read more)

Testing Web Services

2011-12-20T16:24:00Z

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 ...read more...(read more)

Accessing the Miso API: a sample ASP.NET application

2011-01-10T07:09:00Z

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 ...read more...(read more)

Top 10 Reasons to Refactor Your Tests

2010-11-16T16:47:00Z

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 ...read more...(read more)

How to convert a 10-digit timestamp in JSON to a Javascript Date

2010-11-16T06:25:00Z

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 ...read more...(read more)

How to convert a 10-digit “date” in a JSON response from a web service

2010-11-16T06:25:00Z

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 ...read more...(read more)

Add your own custom REST endpoints to the Telligent Evolution platform API

2010-07-28T06:01:00Z

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 ...read more...(read more)

What's the deal with REST?

2010-07-15T21:13:00Z

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 ...read more...(read more)

Telligent Evolution SDK and Android

2010-04-22T13:37:28Z

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 ...read more...(read more)

Now Available: Customization Guide for the Telligent Evolution Platform 5.5

2010-04-09T19:12:25Z

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 ...read more...(read more)

Competition Much?

2010-04-08T05:51:00Z

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...(read more)

What’s on My Android Phone

2010-04-07T04:50:00Z

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 ...read more...(read more)

Links, Subfolders, ISAPI_Rewrite, Routing, and more

2010-04-07T03:20:00Z

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 ...read more...(read more)

Design for Mobile first and Full Screen Second

2010-04-01T00:24:00Z

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 ...read more...(read more)