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A quick post to explain what a REST API is and how it can be used. I’m clearly making no assumptions about what you know and this is a very brief explanation of a can be very complex topic. A REST API defines a set…

This is how you can use Google Analytics API to get traffic statistics for your website. My original aim was to get live stats and display them on the blog… but as far as I am aware Google Analytics API doesn’t support real-time stats yet……

This is a diagram for a system I developed to cache Twitter Tweets in JavaScript for fast loading. The call to fetch tweets from Twitter using oAuth REST API every x seconds with a since_id to prevent getting previously fetched tweets. The tweets are then…

This script calculates the “Twitter time” since the tweet was created this is returned from the Twitter REST API search.json in a property called ‘created_at’ (example: “Tue, 12 Jun 2012 06:24:59 +0000″). This function could be used to display the “time since” tweeted on say…

You may have noticed that I have just integrated Disqus comment engine into the blog to make it easier for people to comment on posts and easier for myself to manage and stay on top of replying to posts. I did however run into a…