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Our latest ramblings on various things related to design, the web, business and what we find interesting.

Exploring the Wild West Domains API

Posted By: Joao Coelho on 9/14/2012

Today we look at how to use the Wild West Domains API. WildWestDomains.com is a domain-name reseller affiliated with GoDaddy.

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Search the web using the new Bing API

Posted By: Joao Coelho on 5/25/2012

In our last post we looked at how to do searches using the Twitter API. This week we are doing the same for Bing. Bing used to have a very simple REST API, but Microsoft has recently taken the decision to start charging for Bing searches, and consequently put out a new API (see http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/12/microsoft-will-soon-start-charging-for-its-bing-search-api/), which is quite a bit more complex than the previous one, because of the additional overhead involved in authenticating requests.

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Doing searches with LinqToTwitter

Posted By: Joao Coelho on 5/23/2012

If you're thinking of plugging your web app into Twitter, approaching the Twitter API can be a daunting task. One of the best choices is to use one of the many open-source .NET libraries which have been created for this purpose.

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Resetting the Membership Provider Password Tip

Posted By: Joao Coelho on 3/25/2012

This week I had to tackle an interesting problem. I was given access to an ASP.NET website that used Windows Membership Provider for authentication.

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