Telligent Technology Community Team Blog

Testing Web Services

Dan Hounshell — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:24:00 GMT

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)

Accessing the Miso API: a sample ASP.NET application

Dan Hounshell — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 07:09:00 GMT

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)

Top 10 Reasons to Refactor Your Tests

Dan Hounshell — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:47:00 GMT

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)

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

Dan Hounshell — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:25:00 GMT

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)

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

Dan Hounshell — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:25:00 GMT

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)

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

Dan Hounshell — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:01:00 GMT

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)

What's the deal with REST?

Dan Hounshell — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:13:00 GMT

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)

Telligent Evolution SDK and Android

Dan Hounshell — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:37:28 GMT

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)

Now Available: Customization Guide for the Telligent Evolution Platform 5.5

Ben Tiedt — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:12:25 GMT

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)

Competition Much?

Josh Ledgard — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:51:00 GMT

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

Dan Hounshell — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:50:00 GMT

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)

Links, Subfolders, ISAPI_Rewrite, Routing, and more

Dan Hounshell — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:20:00 GMT

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)

Design for Mobile first and Full Screen Second

Josh Ledgard — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:24:00 GMT

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)

PayPal app coming to Android

Dan Hounshell — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:01:02 GMT

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 groupá�¥ MOOCHERS! via phandroid.com Like the author I wonder if you'll be able to bump...(read more)

Good Quotes from Rework

Josh Ledgard — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:36:00 GMT

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...(read more)