For a new project I've been working on, I needed to pull the image attachments from all incoming mail, store them separately. I couldn't find any snippets online for this so I had to create my own. Here's what I came up with. As always, it's a bit rough but is a [...]
I've had a lot of requests to turn some of my Twitter apps into mobile services. Most companies, like Twitter itself, use Short Codes (like 40404) to accept and send txt/sms messages. Short codes are very expensive (the cheapest solution I found started at $500 per month for a randomized short code of [...]
Just to keep my blog semi updated (seems I'm just letting this place collect dust), here's what I'm working on for today. This design won't be used. I liked where it was going, the client didn't. Figured I'd share it before I toss it. Also, I'm working on something new for this blog. It [...]
After a week or so of very hard work, we decided trying to clean everything up and restore the house was a futile attempt. Everything we really wanted to save/couldn't afford to replace immediately was cleaned up, boxed, and stored at my brother's house. After a couple weeks of cleaning and boxing, the [...]
A friend needed to push/send items from an RSS feed to his Twitter account. Here's the code in a nice .zip file. Very simple and rough, but it gets the job done nicely. Feel free to add to/modify. http://kevinsmithdesigns.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/KSDtwitter.zip
My latest project, SecretTweet.com, has been getting noticed by a few major names in the world of news.
LA Times:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/02/like-postsecret.html
New York Times:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/anonymous-confessions-go-online-with-secrettweet/
And it was on Fox News, too:
