Twitter API + jQuery JSONP

Here i will show you how easily fetch non authenticated Twitter API methods using ajax json callback functions with jQuery framework, I use user_timeline method as an example but you can use this sampel to fire other twitter api method as long as its needless authorization.

The TwitterAPI Class

TwitterAPI = {
	Statuses: {
		user_timeline:function(screen_name, count, callback){
			jQuery.getJSON("http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/" + screen_name + ".json?count="+count+"&b="+Math.random()+"&callback=?",
			callback);
		}
	}
};

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PHP Error Exception Handling

Got a question from a friend today who is actually a great desktop programmer and just learn PHP since he believe that the future is in the web (hope you’re right dude). He asked me about how to handling error in PHP. Well i’ll write my answer here so can share with others and got feedback when I was wrong.

In PHP there are few options that you can use to handle errors & exceptions during script executions and as developer you must considering not the easiet but the most flexible approach which will help you when debugging your appllication, the more detail error message provided the faster you can fix it. Flexible means its easy for you to change the application behaviour when unexpected things happened during execution like: display error, logging error or even automatically notice you via email.

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Install, Configure & Running Memcache in Windows as Service

Installing memcache server in windows is a little bit complicated compared to how it can be done in *nix since theres not yet available ready to use package for win32.

Luckily i found the compiled memcached for win32 (exe) which was made by jellycan, within this exe file you can install configure and running memcached as a service in your windows environment, here are how i made it:

*** updated ****
Newer version available at northscale, thanks to Matt Ingenthron for pointing this.

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DynamicWP Image Cube WordPress Plugin

DinamicWP Image Cube is a free plugins for wordpress which will turn your selected images into a 3D image cube slideshow. This plugin will randomly show your image with beautiful fadein/fadeout 3D cube effects.

Released under GPL License means you can use it for all your project or at least use it as a foundation for your next projects for free and without any restrictions.

Download & Demo

New WordPress 3.0 API menu_page_url

Peter Westwood one of the lead developers of wordpress has introduced a new API method in wordpress 3.0 api which will help the plugin developers easily get the url of the plugin page.

Example of implementation:

add_options_page('Best Evar Menu', 'Best Evar Menu', 'manage_options', 'best_evar_menu', 'best_evar_options_page');
menu_page_url( 'best_evar_menu' );

The function will by default echo the url out but if you want you can get it returned for processing by setting the second argument to false.

Reference: WP Track #13829