statuses

From the SitePoint PHP blog today there's a new tutorial from Craig Buckler (part one of a series) on how to create your own Twitter widget you can drop in anywhere on your site (main content or sidebar).

It uses cURL to make the requests to the Twitter servers, so you'll need that installed on your PHP instance.

Ruh roh — what to do when the tubes are clogged and Gmail is down?

First: breathe.

In this second part of their "dynamic twitter signature" series DevShed expands on the previous part and adds in code to work with the GD libraries to make the image.

Tech Source From Bohol: "Do you want to display your friends' Twitter statuses/updates on your conky desktop system monitor?

If you want to then I'll show the way to easily do it without having to install additional modules. Here's how:"

Lorna Mitchell has posted the last article in her look at web services - a focus on status codes.