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| bio | website | BillTheLizard.com |
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| location | Charlotte, NC | |
| age | 39 | |
| visits | member for | 3 years |
| seen | Apr 16 at 16:47 | |
| stats | profile views | 117 |
Big Ball of Mud maintainer (mostly Java, C++, and SQL - Perl, Python, and JavaScript as necessary) currently living in Charlotte, NC. I also tutor Java, Python, and JavaScript part-time at Franklin University.
I blog about programming, math, learning, and technology at BillTheLizard.com.
You can follow me on Twitter, @lizardbill. (If I recognize you from SO or meta, I'll probably follow you back.) You can also find me on Google+.
I also wrote @BountyBot, a Twitter bot that posts new and interesting bounty questions from Stack Overflow.
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Apr 25 |
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StackWrap4J Java wrapper @Jack If I can find the time I'll update it, but I don't have any immediate plans to, so I don't know when that will be. |
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May 20 |
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StackWrap4J Java wrapper @Mat: Yeah, I've tested it with all the Trilogy sites, including Meta. It should work with any of the sites that have an active API route. |
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Feb 23 |
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Stacky - A .NET client library (Full support for API v2.0) Is there any way to get a user's badges (the /user/badges route)? See this SO question: stackoverflow.com/questions/5091513/… |
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Feb 6 |
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StackWrap4J Java wrapper @rascher: Those will be in the MetadataList returned by the methods in StackWrapper. It looks like we made a mistake and didn't expose that data, because those methods return List, which you'll have to cast. |
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Oct 19 |
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Truly unanswered questions @user3652: In other words... stackoverflow.com/search?q= |
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Sep 19 |
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Stack.PHP - Powerful and Extensive Library for Accessing the Stack Exchange API - Including Full Support for v2.0. Thanks for the notification, I'll check it out and let you know when I have some free time. Right now I'm only using the StackAuth part, but that could change as my little side project grows. |
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Aug 24 |
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Rep Compare - Utility for Comparing Reputation - Version 0.8 @jjnguy: I'll be cutting it off before that, so I can bask in my August 2008 glory. :) |
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Aug 13 |
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How to format time since xxx e.g. “4 minutes ago” similar to Stack Exchange sites @Juha: Yeah, I'm not crazy about that either. It's an artifact of the way that "an hour ago" is defined as 45 - 90 minutes ago and anything more than that (within the last 24 hours) is displayed as an integer number of hours. I wanted to stay true to the original implementation though. |
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Aug 3 |
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Post questions using API It seems like this question gets asked every week, but I can't find the original or any duplicates (they're probably being deleted). Perhaps it should be added to the FAQ or even the Getting Started sidebar? |
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Jul 29 |
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Intermittent bug in the /search route when providing both tagged and nottagged parameters. I had a feeling this one would be nasty when the test output started changing on its own. Thanks for killing it. |
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Jul 28 |
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List of example questions Yes, answers can be locked. |
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Jul 26 |
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StackWrap4J Java wrapper @Catchwa: It does look there was a fix that we could apply on our end. Can you try version 1.0.1 and let us know how that works for you? We appreciate the feedback. |
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Jul 25 |
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StackWrap4J Java wrapper Is it GWT or Google App Engine that's throwing the exception? I've not used either, but it looks like the security permission error is coming from GAE. Is there somewhere that you can configure permissions? |
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Jul 20 |
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Announcing Apps to the Public Oh... I certainly hope so, since I already mentioned it on Twitter and my blog. Also, pics of the tattoos, please. ;) |
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Jul 19 |
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Intermittent bug in the /search route when providing both tagged and nottagged parameters. @code: Thanks. You'd think I would know how this system works by now. :) |
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Jul 19 |
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Intermittent bug in the /search route when providing both tagged and nottagged parameters. @code, @system, @Kevin: I'm now getting 30 on the 1st and 3rd links, but still only 29 on the second. The pagesize value is correct (30), but only 29 questions are in the result. |
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Jul 9 |
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Stack Exchange site layout question @Matt: It looks like it could range quite a bit. "1 month, possibly many more" according to Jeff. See: What is the minimum length of time a proposed site will be in its beta phase? |
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Jul 7 |
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How to format time since xxx e.g. “4 minutes ago” similar to Stack Exchange sites Follow-up question: There are some slight errors on the elapsed times displayed on the site due to treating all months uniformly as 30 days and ignoring leap years. Do you think it's a good idea to keep these errors to match the site (see my answer) or should we try to fix them? |
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Jul 1 |
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Are there any restrictions on using icons/look-and-feel from the site(s)? "@" comments/replies/mentions were already popular on Twitter before SO picked it up, and probably came from somewhere else before that. I'm sure that feature is free to imitate. |
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Jun 29 |
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A Stack of Twits - Tweeting all over your stack At least that domain name doesn't need a hyphen to disambiguate it from a site for gender reassignment specialists. |
