So many authentication options

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Twitter just announced they are supporting OAuth. Why is this cool? Well, now you can share applications  with Twitter without asking the user to log into twitter. Very cool indeed.

Tags: Application programming interface, OAuth, OpenID, Twitter

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Native thread support in Ruby’s latest version

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Image via Wikipedia It looks like Ruby version 1.9.1 supports native threads and fibers. Fibers are a 'lightweight' approach when you don't need full threads. It sounds like fibers are not preemptive, so they have to yield to other fibers as opposed to threads that can run in ...

Tags: Java, language, Programming, Programming language, Ruby, Tools

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