Author Archives: Eric

Simple WordPress Posting from Ruby via XMLRPC

WordPress supports a few different XMLRPC APIs, all of which have different methods and key titles for specifying content. For a project I’m working on I was looking for the simplest Ruby code to get a post up with a … Continue reading

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Deploying with Capistrano and Git Submodules

If your using Capistrano to deploy code from a Git repository with submodules in it, you’ve likely run into empty directories where your sub-repositories should have been cloned. The reason is that Capistrano does not excute the Git clone command … Continue reading

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Getting an OAuth Token for your Twitter Bot

If you run a Twitter bot that uses a non-OAuth login pathway, you are going to be out of luck this coming August. With a web application that needs to publish or read from Twitter, OAuth is a good idea anyway … Continue reading

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WordCamp Boston (and that Ignite talk)

Patrick and I are back from Boston. I was fighting off a virus, and I have to thank him for putting up with me being slightly miserable a good amount of the time. Danielle Morrill posted the videos of all … Continue reading

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