Mar

5

PHP: Working with the YouTube API with Zend Framework

March 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment

The YouTube API allows a user to retrieve a lot of information about an user’s profile and his videos (his uploads, his favorite videos). For each of these videos, it also allows to retrieve a lot of information like duration, keywords, comments and trackbacks… These information are accessible without the need of an API key. [...]

Feb

6

Blogging from OpenOffice.org

February 6, 2011 | 1 Comment

Recently, I’ve been working on a Microsoft addin allowing users to post to bluekiwi from Microsoft Office. I liked the feature myself and discovered Microsoft Office also enabled publishing to WordPress and set out looking for such a solution for OpenOffice.org. Sun Weblog Publisher seems to be the extension to do just that and here [...]

Jan

17

sharpOauth: lightweight C# OAuth Consumer class

January 17, 2011 | 1 Comment

A recent project at work lead me to develop a lightweight C# Oauth Consumer class to call an OAuth API from a Microsoft Office addin. Oauth is “an open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications”. A lot of documentation, and the specification, about the [...]