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Tom Lawrence

3rd Nov 2010 at 01:12
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kevinnuut: Socket Load Testing (Join Us). I think the server was overloading due to Unix Socket connections not ending so I’d like to try another round of stress testing.  Feel free to jump on.  If a lot of people come on and it doesn’t crash, I’ll start developing rooms.  How is that for incentive? Remember kids, you must have Chrome or Safari.  Whiners and griefers will be banned by moderators.  Please don’t ask dumb questions. Help a genuinely nice guy out by (somewhat) stress testing his new Tumblr Chat app. It’s pretty darn good too :)

kevinnuut:

Socket Load Testing (Join Us).

I think the server was overloading due to Unix Socket connections not ending so I’d like to try another round of stress testing.  Feel free to jump on.  If a lot of people come on and it doesn’t crash, I’ll start developing rooms.  How is that for incentive?

Remember kids, you must have Chrome or Safari.  Whiners and griefers will be banned by moderators.  Please don’t ask dumb questions.

Help a genuinely nice guy out by (somewhat) stress testing his new Tumblr Chat app. It’s pretty darn good too :)

13th Jul 2010 at 16:01
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staff: Developers: OAuth support For increased security and more resilient third-party apps, we’ve started early testing of OAuth support in the Tumblr API. We’ve modeled our implementation after Twitter’s in many ways, supporting OAuth 1.0a with optional xAuth, upon request, where it makes sense such as mobile and native applications. The existing authentication methods in the API are still supported for now, but we encourage developers to migrate to OAuth when possible. To get started with Tumblr’s OAuth, integrate an OAuth consumer library into your project and get a consumer key by registering your app. This is still in its early testing stages, so please report any issues. Thanks. I’ve not written any software that implements OAuth yet so I’ll definitely give this one a whirl with some of my own Tumblr apps soon. This sure beats the current method for an authenticated read using POST requests with custom headers on an insecure connection passing along fellow user’s login details in plain text (I was surprised that you guys never implemented TLS/SSL). It’s also great to see OAuth libraries available for so many platforms and APIs. Hell, there’s even an OAuth library for the .NET Compact Framework. Not that anyone actually cares about Windows Mobile but still, choice is indeed nice. Next thing on your list of things to sort out in the API is replies! Seriously, they’re one of the most used features on Tumblr and devs can’t even implement them. Second on your list is Message/Ask; another highly popular feature that even the iPhone optimised page doesn’t feature. Finally, for the complete package, allow direct video uploads to Tumblr as opposed to using embed or data (that just uploads to Vimeo anyway).

staff:

Developers: OAuth support

For increased security and more resilient third-party apps, we’ve started early testing of OAuth support in the Tumblr API.

We’ve modeled our implementation after Twitter’s in many ways, supporting OAuth 1.0a with optional xAuth, upon request, where it makes sense such as mobile and native applications.

The existing authentication methods in the API are still supported for now, but we encourage developers to migrate to OAuth when possible.

To get started with Tumblr’s OAuth, integrate an OAuth consumer library into your project and get a consumer key by registering your app.

This is still in its early testing stages, so please report any issues. Thanks.

I’ve not written any software that implements OAuth yet so I’ll definitely give this one a whirl with some of my own Tumblr apps soon. This sure beats the current method for an authenticated read using POST requests with custom headers on an insecure connection passing along fellow user’s login details in plain text (I was surprised that you guys never implemented TLS/SSL).

It’s also great to see OAuth libraries available for so many platforms and APIs. Hell, there’s even an OAuth library for the .NET Compact Framework. Not that anyone actually cares about Windows Mobile but still, choice is indeed nice.

Next thing on your list of things to sort out in the API is replies! Seriously, they’re one of the most used features on Tumblr and devs can’t even implement them. Second on your list is Message/Ask; another highly popular feature that even the iPhone optimised page doesn’t feature. Finally, for the complete package, allow direct video uploads to Tumblr as opposed to using embed or data (that just uploads to Vimeo anyway).

9th Apr 2010 at 14:48
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Simple Reblog API

staff:

We’ve just launched a simple developer API for reblogging posts with automatic formatting, automatic attribution, and optional commentary.

See the Reblogging API documentation for details.

Finally, reblogging support. Thankyou! All we need now is reply support via http://www.tumblr.com/api/reply and I’ll be damn happy with you guys for now.

22nd Feb 2010 at 19:50
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Spent the last hour getting to grips with XAML and giving the recently updated Tumblr API a quick test with a basic readout of the dashboard. Also noticed how many XAML properties are completely different names to their Windows Forms counterparts, tempted to switch back for comfort yet I know I should push forward with WPF instead. If I make the most of my spare time and parse the XML and whip up a reasonable GUI then maybe I may have a usable desktop client in my hands for the foreseeable future.

Spent the last hour getting to grips with XAML and giving the recently updated Tumblr API a quick test with a basic readout of the dashboard. Also noticed how many XAML properties are completely different names to their Windows Forms counterparts, tempted to switch back for comfort yet I know I should push forward with WPF instead.

If I make the most of my spare time and parse the XML and whip up a reasonable GUI then maybe I may have a usable desktop client in my hands for the foreseeable future.