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My much neglected personal project JASPA has been taken offline. All traffic to jaspa.org.uk is redirecting here for now.

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After nearly two years I’ve finally gotten around to releasing my PHP JavaScript parser, although documentation is still thin on the ground.

• Download jParser 1.0.0 (recommended)
  
• Download jParser devel package (Full source and build scripts)
• See the library examples running at apps.timwhitlock.info/jparser

The library has been split in two:

1. jTokenizer – A JavaScript tokenizer designed to mimic the PHP tokenizer.
2. jParser - The fully blown JavaScript syntactical parser which generates a parse tree.

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The day a thousand apps stool still

I noticed some weeks ago that Twitter’s OAuth implementation didn’t appear to be verifying signatures. I knew this because I purposefully set an invalid access token which was accepted unconditionally. I thought this was odd, but as a newbie to OAuth I was just happy that my app was working, so I filed the problem at the back of my mind under “deal with it if it becomes a problem”. Today (the week I release by beloved TwitBlock app) it very suddenly became a problem.

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If you know about the Qwitter service, then you may also know what people say about it – that it plain doesn’t work. So for my first Twitter app, I decided to make one that does.

I have been made aware since then that there is also Twitdiff, although I haven’t tried it at time of writing.

If you don’t know about Qwitter, it’s a service that monitors your Twitter followers and emails you if someone unfollows you. My app currently tweets the notification instead, so everyone will know you’ve been qwit.

I’m not offering my app as a public service [yet] I knocked it up in 2 hours and if you know what you’re doing with a LAMP set-up you can download it and run it yourself.

» Download qwitter 0.1.2
Requires PHP >= 5.2.x  + json extension, MySQL >= 5.0.45

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I’ve knocked up a really simple command line tool for interacting with the bit.ly API.

It’s simple because:

1. The output is currently pretty raw
2. The bit.ly API doesn’t actually do very much

» Download version 0.1.1

Requires PHP >= 5.2.x + json extension

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