Yearly Archives: 2009

#feedburner instead of WP to Twitter #WordPress #plugin #RSS #syndication #xml

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I’ve been using WP to Twitter for a while to have my weblog posts tweeted to Twitter automatically. Today I started experimenting with feedburner.com. FeedBurner has been taken over by the allmighty Google, which means we can get lots and lots of statistics…

Here’s the deal: I took the RSS feed of my weblog and fed it to feedburner.com. Next, I went to twitterfeed.com, linking the RSS feed from feedburner.com to my Twitter account (are you still with me?).

The result is that all posts I write on my weblog end up in the RSS feed, after which they’ll be picked up by feedburner.com, passing them on to twitterfeed.com, after which they finally end up being tweeted on Twitter. This may look like a long, long way, but for me it means I can run my weblog with one plugin less… Furthermore, WP to Twitter only lets you shorten your URL’s with cli.gs, which is a bit buggy and has some apparently unsolvable issues. twitterfeed.com has a broad variety of URL shortening services like bit.ly, which offers great statistics about the clicks to your links.

And this is a nice syndication experiment, of course! RSS syndication lets you link just about anything to everything and that’s a nice challenge! 🙂

#iPhone #beta #OS 3.1 is here!

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Are you an iPhone Developer, like me? You may want to have a look at the iPhone Dev Center, because the new 3.1 beta has arrived! Downloading an installing this update was no problem at all. My current iTunes did the job. The earlier beta versions were having difficulties installing without a special iTunes beta, but this 3.1 installed like a charm! The only strange thing about it is, that there were several applications that weren’t properly synchronized. I had to re-install them one by one. And all my icons were messed up, as a result. Too bad Apple didn’t find a solution for that yet. My Microsoft Exchange profile is missing, so I have to reconfigure that as well and my Security Code is gone. It’s a lot of work, as usual, but we need to keep some wishes for our wishlist… Anyway: the new beta feels a lot faster than the older ones! 🙂

#TweetBoard (by @140ware): A #bridge between #Twitter and your blog

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Right. How am I going to explain this?

When I woke up this morning, I found something on Twitter about a new system called TweetBoard. I heard something about Alpha invites, allowing me to test their new service free of charge. Alpha is a geek word for experimental software. First, there’s only an idea. Then comes the Alpha release, Beta release, then the Release Candidate (RC) and finally the Ready to Manufacture (RTM). TweetBoard is still Alpha software… Good to know!

It took a while before it got to me. TweetBoard can best be described as a bridge between Twitter and your blog. I sent an Alpha request by using a specially formulated tweet:

Requesting an invite for Tweetboard Alpha (http://tweetboard.com) by @140ware, for my site: http://www.daepunt.com

If you want to have a go at this for your own blog, copy the request tweet e x a c t l y, but don’t forget to replace the URL of my weblog with yours. About a minute or so later I received the following message:

@daepunt, your Tweetboard Alpha invite request has been approved. Find installation instructions here: http://bit.ly/1JtNr

I followed the instructions. My weblog runs on WordPress and the instructions said that I should make a Text Widget and copy/past a piece of JavaScript in it. I did that and it worked, but it left me with an ugly and empty Text Widget, so I pasted the code in the footer.php instead and now it looks nice and clean. If you check out the left side of my blog, you’ll notice a coloured tab and if you press it…

#Changing the #ServiceAccount of your #BlackBerry #BES Server #afterwards

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Once your BlackBerry BES Server is up and running, there are many reasons why you’d like to change the Service Account afterwards. One of those reasons could be that you didn’t pick a separatre BESAdmin account during the initial installation. Taking care of that (even afterwards) is probably a good idea.

Research in Motion describes in article KB04293 how to take care of this (click the link for KB04293).