I encountered an issue with the Twitter API the other day that I’m sure other people have run into as well. I found little or no information on the issue online though, so here goes. If you’re using the Twitter API to fetch tweets for a particular user (i.e. statuses/user_timeline) and it appears the count [...]
Author Archives: Rickard
A new record
April 21, 2010 – 3:33 pm
As software applications that use SQL databases grow in functionality, so do the number of tables they use in the database. Not necessarily because they store more data but because they store more kinds of data. I believe PunBB, at least at the time I was working on it, had 17 tables. Microsoft’s App-V uses [...]
Sweden: pros and cons continued
February 23, 2010 – 1:00 pm
In an old post titled Sweden: pros and cons, I listed some pros and cons for Sweden. On May 1st, my wife and I are expecting our first child and while preparing for this, I’ve encountered something that has to go on the pro list. When a Swedish couple have a baby, they each get [...]
Thinking about a vacation some place far away?
November 28, 2009 – 1:16 am
I read a rather interesting article today called Top 10 green living myths. One of the “myths” the article discussed was the fact that people these days tend to buy new fuel-efficient cars like they’re iPods. This, of course, is a bad idea since actually producing the vehicle is a very CO2 heavy activity. I [...]
My thoughts on the “Truth movement”
November 21, 2009 – 11:19 pm
A fair amount of scepticism is a good thing. I applaud that people are sceptical about what they see on TV, read in books, magazines and on the Internet. Come to think of it, a lot of people could use some scepticism when it comes to religious literature, but, I digress. We know that the [...]