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Category: Oauth

Fireeagle and PortableContacts Don’t Get Along. That Makes Daddy Mad.

Posted on June 2, 2010November 1, 2021

I have some code that looks like this: user.google.portable_contacts.all </pre> As long as user.google is a valid token provided by oauth you will get back a list of the user’s contacts from gmail. That is unless you have the Fireeagle gem included in your application. In that case you will spend the night swearing like…

Using the OAuth and OAuth-Plugin gems

Posted on December 24, 2009November 1, 2021

For quite a while I’ve been wanting to play with OAuth and now that I’ve been able to spend some time playing with it I have to say it is awesome. Instead of asking for a user’s username and password for a given service (like their GMail or LinkedIn account) you instead have the user…

Turn WordPress Into Social Butterfly

Posted on March 6, 2008November 1, 2021

I have been pitching this idea of a distributed social network to everyone that can stand to listen to me. I realize that the conversation around WordPress and the future of social networking is heating up, but as it does I think it is important to begin thinking about implementation. It is fun to philosophize,…

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