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Getting the Number of Twitter Followers Without Using the Twitter API

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Since Twitter upgraded the Twitter REST API to version 1.1 earlier this year, a simple HTTP query against the API no longer works. You now have to include authentication information which would require redevelopment of many programs that perform this previously simple action. I wanted to include the number of Twitter followers on this blog … Read more

Creating an ASP.NET MVC 4 RESTful API for a SQL Stored Procedure

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In order to use the information from the SQL stored proc I implemented that would create a JSON Object from a SQL table, I needed to build an RESTful API web service that would retrieve the JSON for use elsewhere. Finding information on building an ASP.NET-based API that used a stored proc to pull the … Read more