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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.


Jun
23
comment What real world application does the Stack API have?
Clippy: "I noticed you're trying to parse HTML with regular expressions. Are you sure that's a good idea?" ;)
Jun
21
comment stackoverflow-java-sdk: a Java wrapper for the Stack Exchange API
@Christian: If you'd like, you can test out StackWrap4J. I tested it out on the Android emulator, but I don't have a physical device to test it on yet. I'd appreciate any feedback you can give us if you decide to use it. Thanks.
Jun
20
comment The /questions/{id}/timeline route isn't working.
Confirmed, this is working again. Thanks!
Jun
18
comment Problem getting a users questions within a date range
I think I was the one reading the doc wrong. It's min and max that take sort into account, not fromdate and todate. Please disregard my comment above.
Jun
17
comment Problem getting a users questions within a date range
I know I'm splitting hairs, but with sort=activity you should be looking at the last_activity_date. It's out of range too, so this is a real bug. I just wasn't sure if you were aware of this and you simply copy/pasted the wrong field from the results.
Jun
11
comment The /search route is ignoring the answers parameter.
Seems reasonable.
Jun
3
comment Add optional parameter to get only paging information?
@TheHurt: I'm not talking about a magic number. I'm saying if you explicitly specify that the page size should be 0, then it should return nothing but the page info and an empty list. Adding pagesize=0 as a URL parameter currently doesn't return anything at all.
May
30
comment The user and owner objects appear to be optional in the question timeline result.
D'oh! You're right. My eye skipped into the user_id field because I was only looking for one specific attribute. Thanks for the clarification.
May
28
comment The search method is returning an extra result.
Confirmed. Thank you. :)
May
21
comment What are the min and max parameters?
Thanks for the detailed explanation.