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Simple Client for customer.io

Sometime last year I got to tackle an interesting project at work. We use customer.io for a lot of front-end tracking for our users, even going as far as using their bucketing and email communication for much of our targeted marketing. While we had a great system in place for talking through…

  • Category Web Development
  • Posted July 18, 2015
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Archiving (Scraping) a Site

Last week I wrote a little post and script to archive a directory. This can be really helpful if you're looking to backup some legacy code, especially a deeply nested old website, but what if the files only live online? How do you reach out to the internets and archive (scrape) a front-end?

There…

  • Category Web Development
  • Posted October 5, 2013
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Passing Extra Parameters to Twitter via OAuth

A while ago I wrote a post explaining how to pull data from Twitter's API. I focused on pulling the default authenticated user timeline (which, if you set up the application under your account, you are the authenticated user). Wouldn't it be great if you could customize the request a bit?

The…

  • Category Web Development
  • Posted February 22, 2013
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Working with Twitter's 1.1 API via PHP, OAuth

Twitter has been slowly changing up their API over the last few months. When I first set up a cron to pull my Twitter timeline over a year ago I was able to pull a public RSS feed without too much difficulty. If they were over capacity, either just on the API side or with the entire application, my…

  • Category Web Development
  • Posted October 22, 2012
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