I wonder whether I can piggy-back Twitter authentication

by Kofi Sarfo 15. June 2009 00:46

Didn't really fancy maintaining credentials for an application that is designed to work in tandem with Twitter so enter OAuth.net: "An open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method..."

What is this new thing then and why had I not heard of it before? See October 2007 entry in Hueniverse: Beginner’s Guide to OAuth. Not so new then.

Also, a little while ago we were in a room with developers and they brayed when asked if anyone liked the ASP.NET 2.0 Membership Controls. I think the Login control was mentioned specifically. They worked fine for me. So we go looking for reasons this - their seeming unpopularity - might be. Stack Overflow (because there's been no reference in minutes) answers one question of what to use for membership in ASP.NET. We're still none the wiser.

And there's more from the timely discoveries department. Tweetsharp: "A C# fluent interface for Twitter, designed for app developers" -- downloading source. I remember being corrected for returning this (or it could have been me) circa 2004 which we did so that we could chain methods but I can't remember what the argument against it might have been.

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