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The access token below is provided after going through Step 1. It is a short lived token which gives you access to the user's OAuth protected resources. Once you got the Authorization Code from Step 1 click the Exchange authorization code for tokens button, you will get a refresh and an access token which is required to access OAuth protected resources. Note: The OAuth Playground does not store refresh tokens, but as refresh tokens never expire, user should go to their Google Account Authorized Access page if they would like to manually revoke them.
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Startups Aim to Make Coding Fun - Technology Review
For Jacob Arriola, a business development manager for a Spanish media company in Los Angeles, learning to program wasn't a necessity. But figuring it might help with his job, he started using an online code-tutorial service called Treehouse in January.
The other day I was struck by the thought that something that is extremely obvious to computer scientists may, in fact, be completely unintuitive to other folks.
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Cloud9 : The Premiere Cloud Files Management System
1) This web site, http://www.revivemarketing.org/cloud9, is hereafter referred to as 'Cloud9' or 'Site'.
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The Best Tech People To Follow On Twitter
Howard Lindzon is the founder and CEO of StockTwits, an angel investor and a hedge fund manager, which probably makes him the funniest multimillionaire on Twitter who's not also a professional comedian. Lindzon tweets interesting news, rants, funny jokes and never, ever takes himself seriously, which is great.Twitter
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Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster ( @msuster ) a VC at GRP Partners . He blogs at BothSidesoftheTable There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses.
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Pieceable Brings Affordable App Creation to Everyone - TNW Apps
It will cost you a minimum of $10,000 to have even the simplest of iPhone apps built for you properly. Even then, it will most likely be pretty terrible. The cost of building a decent app was one of the reasons that Chris Stewart and Fred Potter started working on Pieceable , a modular app building service that will allow small business or agencies to craft decent apps at a fraction of the cost of having one custom built. Pieceable is a project that Chris and Fred have been trying to get published through Apple’s App Store for some time. Unfortunately, they kept running aground during the always rocky App Store approval process. Too much code bouncing around between Pieceable’s servers and the app itself was the major cause and even Chris says that “There’s no hard feelings,” largely because the rejection led to the building of the Pieceable Viewer .
February 4, 2011, 5:51 PM PST Takeaway: The OAuth protocol allows a user of an application to work with data from a service without providing the app with credentials. Find out where to get guides, code samples, and tutorials on how to use OAuth. On a recent project, I needed to consume a service that used OAuth for authentication. I had heard of OAuth, but I had not used the relatively new protocol. I was able to accomplish my goals without having to directly program to the OAuth spec, but I decided to dig a little deeper to learn more about the protocol’s guts.
OAuth protocol lets apps authenticate against services | TechRepublic
Words are frequently abused in the tech industry. There are “hacks” that involve zero hacking, “downloads” when people mean uploads, “viruses” used to refer to anything faintly malicious on a computer. Yet, the one that’s been so wildly abused that it deserves a sugary cup of tea and its own counsellor is the word “app”. Until the iPhone came along, the word “application” largely meant a self-contained piece of software installed on a PC or Mac.
Google doesn’t know what an “app” is | PC Pro blog
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This post is part of our ReadWriteMobile channel, which is dedicated to helping its community understand the strategic business and technical implications of developing mobile applications. This channel is sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent . Remember the story of the 14-year-old Robert Nay whose Bubble Ball iPhone app knocked out Angry Birds from the #1 spot on the App Store's free apps list? Well, the software development kit (SDK) Nay used, Ansca Mobile's Corona SDK , has just been made available on Windows . That means that PC developers can now develop Android apps using Corona's tools and can then port their code and assets to Mac for building iOS apps for iPhone, iPad and the iPod Touch.
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Jack Dorsey On Charlie Rose: “It’s Really Complex To Make Something Simple.”
Twitter Chairman and Square founder Jack Dorsey sat down with Charlie Rose last night to talk about Dorsey’s unique position of being responsible for two technology startups based on the idea of simplicity: Twitter and Square. Watching this interview you realize that Dorsey’s accomplishments have little to do with luck, and more with his focus on creating the purest products by throwing away any unnecessary flourishes. “It’s really complex to make something simple,” he tells Rose.Forefront: Protecting Workgroups with Forefront | TechNet Magazine
You can use Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway as intended with Active Directory, or use it to secure a workgroup setting. Connectivity yields collaboration, yet it can also yield risk and exposure. You can configure your workers in a workgroup and still protect them, your data and your corporate network with Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (Forefront TMG) 2010. While generally regarded as an enterprise-class application set designed for use within an Active Directory environment, you don’t absolutely need to deploy Forefront within Active Directory. You can effectively deploy Forefront TMG in a number of different topologies and for various purposes.@P. Douglas - HTML5 is great for anything that doesn't need deep integration with the client OS. However, if your app needs to access your machine's webcam, local file storage, local networks, etc., then HTML5 is not appropriate. In such a scenario, you have several choices - native C/C++ code using MFC or some other app framework, .NET WebForms or WPF, or Silverlight (or some combination of the three). Of these options, Silverlight offers BY FAR the most productive and richest user experience.
Microsoft launches new site for prototyping emerging HTML specs | ZDNet
Cutting the Fat Out of the Cloud Development Stack - ReadWriteCloud
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware . Read the case study about how Intel Xeon processors and VMware helped virtualize 12 business critical database applications . "The wide availability of cloud computing offers an un-precedented opportunity to rethink how we construct applications," opens the paper Turning Down the LAMP: Software Specialisation for the Cloud (PDF) - an "unashamedly academic" exploration of building custom kernals for the cloud. The papers authors - Anil Madhavapeddy, Richard Mortier, Ripduman Sohan, Thomas Gazagnaire, Steven Hand, Tim Deegan, Derek McAuley and Jon Crowcroft - built a prototype called Mirage to test their ideas.Jason Kincaid currently works as a writer at TechCrunch. He grew up in Danville, California and later relocated to UCLA in Los Angeles, California, where he studied biology with a minor in ‘Society and Genetics’. You can reach him at jkincaidtc@gmail.com (he has other addresses too, so don’t worry if you have a different one). → Learn More It isn’t uncommon for websites to ask users for feedback, but most of the time this involves them responding to sites and services that are already in the wild (see services like GetSatisfaction and UserVoice). What if you could poll users about a new design, before you’d done the legwork required to put together the images, HTML, CSS and underlying code of a new site? Meet Verify , a user feedback platform that’s based on screenshots.