Tag Archives: programming

Fixing twitterrific’s iphone lat lon cryptography the hard way

Twitterrific’s iPhone App updates your location on twitter using the twitter api. This is fine and dandy but the problem is that it updates with the actual latitude and longitude that (I assume) comes from the iphone api.
So, since most people simply just want to know where you are without hurting their heads doing [...]

Brief Thoughts on PyOhio

Last Saturday I attended PyOhio in Columbus and I wanted to write a few words before too much time went by. I went for a couple reasons, mainly because I have just begun learning about python and have made it about half way through Mark Lutz’s Learning Python, so I was hoping to get [...]

Handling whitespace in bash for loops

Tonight I was trying to cleanup my macports installation by uninstalling the packages that are no longer active. I decided to write a script to do this, instead of manually uninstalling them one by one. But in writing the script I came across something I had never seen and the google didn’t give [...]