[The iPad is great for entertaining one person, but sometimes you want a TV because you want to entertain more than one person. Apple TV lets your TV be entertaining, as Steve Jobs demoed yesterday. It's $99, which is cheaper than an iPad. Also, you can bore people with slideshows of your last fishing trip if you have both. Compared to the old price of $299, it's priced like an accessory, like my fuschia Fendi iPad carrier fanny pack.]
Absolutely, and I mostly write ruby. I actually love that about python. But it feels optimized for writing code with a pen, not with a keyboard. Come to think of it, I don't prefer either for the reading of other's code. But ruby and perl seem to flow from my keys much more naturally than python.
Maybe if I switch from vi to emacs I'll change my tune? ;)
Seems like this author just doesn't realize how painful migrating to OAuth is for a service provider. Of course xAuth isn't a real security improvement to HTTP Basic. But it forces everyone to support auth that isn't inherently broken. So once Twitter stops receiving many xAuth requests, they can just turn it off.
The migration to OAuth 2 will be interesting though. All the existing clients will have the right kind of structure to plug in drop in a replacement flow, but I bet there will still be a bunch of complaints. "OMG I don't want to use HTTPS! This is so hard! Who cares that I can use curl to debug now, I want programming to be drag and drop." Haters gonna hate.
joseph, you have a good point about how large of a task migrating all service providers from Basic to OAuth is. And I have to give Twitter Support credit for their work helping developers along the migration.
But your argument still doesn't explain why Twitter's supported service still uses xAuth. Or Twitterrific (and they have a significant market share). What is blocking them from migrating from Basic to non-xAuth OAuth?
Kinda strange that they don't lump android and linux. What exactly is this 'platform' they speak of? It's not the browser used I guess. But it's not like they're calling KDE and Gnome separate platforms either.
[The iPad is great for entertaining one person, but sometimes you want a TV because you want to entertain more than one person. Apple TV lets your TV be entertaining, as Steve Jobs demoed yesterday. It's $99, which is cheaper than an iPad. Also, you can bore people with slideshows of your last fishing trip if you have both. Compared to the old price of $299, it's priced like an accessory, like my fuschia Fendi iPad carrier fanny pack.]