I spent the last few days playing with gadgets in Windows 7 and learning the basics to build one. The basic structure is surprisingly simple, requiring only an XML configuration file and a HTML file for the UI and logic. Gadgets are actually just little web applications running inside of Internet Explorer, so they can [...]
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How To Use The Foursquare API With OAuth And PHP
I started playing with the Foursquare API and one of the first things you need to do is figure out how to authenticate with Foursquare to make calls to the API. It took me awhile to figure this out and start making successful calls, so I thought others could benefit from a detailed tutorial. The [...]
How To Setup XAMPP For Web Development
XAMPP is a software package that makes it quick and easy to install Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl on any OS. If you need to get a local web development environment setup quickly this is a great option. For convenience, many features are turned on by default, so while great for local development, XAMPP is [...]
