Blog posts archived in: September 2009

Umbraco TinyURL Datatype

I have developed a custom datatype for use with the Umbraco CMS which generates a shortened version of the page. This datatype send the current page tinyurl.com when the page is saved and saves the returned value as a property.

Umbraco problems with displaying Special characters

Umbraco v4.0.1 and possibly others have trouble saving special characters entered in the richtexteditor property. To solve this alter the following settings

Python Twitter API v1.1 Released

I've just made a couple of small additions to my Twitter API wrapper recently. Twitter limits the number of requests that a client can request data, as such if my wrapper was used on a high traffic site for example, the limit of requests could be reached very quickly.