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Weekend Roundup #142

Jaypee Habaradas — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:25:07 +0000

Hi everyone! Welcome to the 142nd edition of the Weekend Roundup. This edition was published late because I was very busy the whole weekend. Anyways, hope you folks still enjoy reading the articles and links I’ve gathered and shared this week. Enjoy!

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Weekend Roundup #122

Jaypee Habaradas — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 05:13:23 +0000

Howdy everybody? Here’s this week’s edition of the Weekend Roundup and hope you don’t mind that it’s a bit late. Was planning to publish it earlier today and started working on it this morning but wasn’t able to finish it coz I had to leave and do several errands, including driving and accompanying our guests to go shopping. Anyways, I still hope that the articles and links I’ve shared here would provide some interesting and useful information. Enjoy!

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Tweet Nest – Browsable, Searchable & Customizable Twitter Archive

Jaypee Habaradas — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:35:25 +0000

I’m not sure if you still remember Like it? Tweet it!, but it’s a widget I blogged about a few months back that lets blog or website visitors share online content to Twitter with customized messages. Anyways, the author of the Like it? Tweet it! widget – Andy Graulund, has come up with a new cool project that I’m sure many Twitter users would love. It’s called Tweet Nest – a browsable, searchable and easily customizable archive and backup for all your tweets.

Features:

Archive – use Tweet Nest to easily store, browse and search amongst your tweets to find exactly what you’re looking for, and let others do the same. New-style retweets, geographic places and links to original tweets included.
Backup – Tweet Nest serves as a backup of your precious tweets on your own server. Tweets that might grow too old to be retrieved from Twitter.com will not fade out here, allowing you to go back in time as much as possible.
Media – Tweet Nest offers an easier way of viewing your tweets at a glance, as they include thumbnails of media like photos hosted on common providers, such as TwitPic. Additionally, for every month view you get an elegant yet simple bar chart of the amount of tweets, retweets and replies you’ve sent every day.
Customize – Tweet Nest is something you host on your own server, so if you know your web development awesomesauce, you can make your tweet archive your own by easily changing color values in the config file, or even changing the behaviour of the whole thing by changing the stylesheet or some of the other code if you so wish.

Screenshot:

If you’re looking for a demo and would like to see Tweet Nest in action, you can check out the author’s own tweet archive.

Installation notes:

Tweet Nest is programmed in PHP
Requires a MySQL database to work
Tested in LAMP environments (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP)

*may work on other types of servers, but you’ll have to figure that out for yourself.

Minimum requirements:

PHP 5.2 or higher (or 5.1 with the PECL JSON module installed)
MySQL 4.1 or higher

Download Tweet Nest

To learn more about Tweet Nest or get detailed instructions on how to install and customize your own Twitter archive, check out the official Tweet Nest site.

I haven’t tried installing or using Tweet Nest except for the demo provided by the author, but from what I’ve seen I can say that it will be a very useful tool that will benefit active Twitter users. With Tweet Nest, you can save a lot of time and effort searching for a specific tweet that you posted or retweeted in the past.

If you have design skills, you can customize Tweet Nest and create a different style/layout for your Twitter archive. If you have programming skills, you can create extensions (Tweet Nest has rudimentary support for extensions) that will enable Tweet Nest to do other cool stuff.

What do you think of Tweet Nest? Anyone tried or are using Tweet Nest? What other program or online service do you use to create your own Twitter archive/backup? Please share your thoughts.

WordPress 2.8.6 Security Release

Jaypee Habaradas — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:50:39 +0000

Just as I finished publishing my previous post, I saw the notification that WordPress 2.8.6 security release is now available for download. Here’s what the official WordPress blog has to say about this new release:

2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges. If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended.
The first problem is an XSS vulnerability in Press This discovered by Benjamin Flesch. The second problem, discovered by Dawid Golunski, is an issue with sanitizing uploaded file names that can be exploited in certain Apache configurations. Thanks to Benjamin and Dawid for finding and reporting these.

If you were having problems accessing this blog earlier, it was because I was upgrading my WordPress install to 2.8.6. Although I trust the other authors on my blog, there’s always a possibility that some hacker or malicious user can obtain their login details and use that to compromise my blog. I just want to be sure, play safe and prevent any problems or headaches. As I always say, “better safe than sorry”. If you have other authors on your blog other than yourself, I strongly encourage you to upgrade to WordPress 2.8.6 now.

Get WordPress 2.8.6.