We restarted (or I can say started…) the development work from this Monday and things are in good progress. In the meantime, I would like to share what we’ve experienced during development and I hope this can help you if you are thinking to develop your own client on Windows Phone 7 or Silverlight for Sina Weibo. So this first entry is about getting OAuth access token for Sina Weibo via Hammock. Hammock is a great lib for you to consume and wrap RESTful services and it supports OAuth and XAuth.

Step 1 register your app.
Sure, you need to apply/register an application on http://open.t.sina.com.cn/. You will then get your app key and secret (which is actually consumer key and secret).

Step 2 authentication.
OAuth is quite simple and straightforward. In summary, you need to pass your consumer key and secret to get the request token, like this,

void OAuthTest()
{
    RestClient c = new RestClient()
    {
        Authority = "http://api.t.sina.com.cn/",
        HasElevatedPermissions = true,
        Credentials = new OAuthCredentials()
        {
            ConsumerKey = "your appkey",
            ConsumerSecret = "your appsecret",
            SignatureMethod = OAuthSignatureMethod.HmacSha1,
            ParameterHandling = 
OAuthParameterHandling.HttpAuthorizationHeader,
            Version = "1.0"
        }
    };

    RestRequest r = new RestRequest()
    {
        Path = "oauth/request_token",

    };

    c.BeginRequest(r, new RestCallback(Callback));

}

void Callback(RestRequest request, RestResponse response, 
object userState)
{
    Regex r = 
new Regex("oauth_token=([^&.]*)&oauth_token_secret=([^&.]*)");
    var match = r.Match(response.Content);
    token = match.Groups[1].Value;
    tokensecret = match.Groups[2].Value;
}

RestClient c = new RestClient()
{
    Authority = "http://api.t.sina.com.cn/",
};

RestRequest req = new RestRequest()
{
    Path = string.Format("oauth/authorize?{0}&oauth_callback=xml
&userId={1}&passwd={2}", response.Content, "user", "password")
};

c.BeginRequest(req, new RestCallback(Callback2));        

void Callback2(RestRequest request, RestResponse response,
 object userState)
{
    Regex r = new Regex("<oauth_token>(.*?)</oauth_token>
<oauth_verifier>(.*?)</oauth_verifier>");
    var match = r.Match(response.Content);
}

RestClient c = new RestClient()
{
    Authority = "http://api.t.sina.com.cn/",
    HasElevatedPermissions = true,
    Credentials = new OAuthCredentials()
    {
        ConsumerKey = "your appkey",
        ConsumerSecret = "your appsecret",
        Token = "request token",
        TokenSecret = "request tokensecret",
        Verifier = "your oauth verifier from last step",
        SignatureMethod = OAuthSignatureMethod.HmacSha1,
        ParameterHandling = OAuthParameterHandling.HttpAuthorizationHeader,
        Type = OAuthType.AccessToken,
        Version = "1.0"
    }
};

RestRequest r2 = new RestRequest()
{
    Path = "oauth/access_token",

};

c.BeginRequest(r2, new RestCallback(Callback3));

public void Callback3(RestRequest request, RestResponse response, 
object userState)
{
    // you will get format like this and that's your access
 token: oauth_token=token&oauth_token_secret=secret&user_id=id
    var s = response.Content;
}

        private void Test()
        {
            RestClient c = new RestClient()
            {
                Authority = "http://api.t.sina.com.cn/",
                HasElevatedPermissions = true,
                Credentials = new OAuthCredentials()
                {
                    ConsumerKey = "your appkey",
                    ConsumerSecret = "your appsecret",
                    Token = "your access token",
                    TokenSecret = "your access tokensecret",
                    SignatureMethod = OAuthSignatureMethod.HmacSha1,
                    ParameterHandling = OAuthParameterHandling.HttpAuthorizationHeader,
                    Type = OAuthType.ProtectedResource,
                    Version = "1.0"
                }
            };

            RestRequest r2 = new RestRequest()
            {
                Path = "statuses/update.xml"
            };

            r2.AddParameter("status", "hello world");
            r2.Method = WebMethod.Post;
            c.BeginRequest(r2, new RestCallback(Callback));

        }

        void Callback(RestRequest request, RestResponse response,
 object userState)
        {
            // check wheather post is successful
        }

references:
OAuth: http://oauth.net
Sina Weibo API: http://open.t.sina.com.cn/
Hammock: http://hammock.codeplex.com

So how about contact info? I tried to add my twitter link to the app, and it just works. From some internal discussion, I would think following information will be OK (not guaranteed…) since in basic, it just requires you to provide a contact approach for end user to contact/feedback to you.

• twitter link
• a webpage/website
• embedded contact form page
• email
• anything else can find you…

Hope this helps…

原书的第三版从目录来看，更新了一些有些过时的内容，比如版本管理从CVS改为SVN，针对PHP5.3的一些新特性添加了一些内容，并且加入了持续集成这样的重要敏捷元素章节。

不得不说，翻译比我想象的要累得多。不仅要考虑到原作的表达，也要符合中文的习惯。希望我的翻译不是太糟糕。
更多关于本书，可前往douban等网站，也希望大家多批评指正。

2. I’m living in China within the famous GFW, and I’m using a twitter proxy site to tweet when I’m at home or using mobile phone.   So there is a problem to me, the http://bit.ly is almost the most popular short url service on twitter which is also blocked by GFW…

3. There are some short url expanding service sites, like http://longurl.org, but they were blocked sometime…

I decided to create a simple function with google app engine after dinner. So that I can continue to learn some of python and also know a little of google’s cloud stuff.

Then here you go the app: http://yatlongurl.appspot.com/ and the source code here. Really quite fun to write code with python. But it looks the app will be intermittently unavailable. And apparently, I did not use any of real functionalities of google’s app engine. Possibly I will add support to automatically retweet or delicious the useful link while expanding it .

1. Download nginx and php and install

• http://nginx.net/
• http://windows.php.net/download/ (I don’t like the installer)

2. Configure nginx and php

• PHP, no specific configuration, just do what you like to php.ini.
• Nginx
  Fast-CGI of php
  You can find sample from wiki.nginx.org, http://wiki.nginx.org/PHPFastCGIOnWindows, below works for me.
  

  location ~ \.php$ {
              fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9999;
              fastcgi_index  index.php;
              fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  D:/www/public/$fastcgi_script_name;
              include        fastcgi_params;
          }

  
  Configure for Zend Framework
  -f and !-f are used for checking whether file exists.
  

          error_page 404 /index.php;
  
          if (!-f $request_filename) {
              rewrite ^.*$ /index.php last;
              break;
          }

3. batch script to start and stop nginx + php-cgi

I’m using RunHiddenConsole to hide the prompt window and actually you also can use vbs to run nginx.

start-nginx.bat

@ECHO OFF
ECHO Starting PHP FastCGI...
C:\nginx\RunHiddenConsole.exe C:\PHP5\php-cgi.exe -b 127.0.0.1:9999
ECHO Starting nginx...
C:\nginx\RunHiddenConsole.exe c:\nginx\nginx.exe

@ECHO OFF
ECHO Stopping nginx...
taskkill /F /IM nginx.exe
ECHO Stopping php-cgi...
taskkill /F /IM php-cgi.exe

resources.view.helperPath.Zend_View_Helper = APPLICATION_PATH "/views/helpers"
resources.view.helperPath.My_Custom_Helper = "/path to helpers"

while using linux, I thought subversion client should natively support http schema,  but actually it doesn’t. By reading installation instruction, it says I need Neon… Then I download Neon and configure with –with-neon=<neonpath>, doesn’t work! try copy neon to subversion source code, reconfigure it… without –with-neon option… still doesn’t work! Shit… via looking into configure log, it says…

checking neon library version… 0.29.0
You have a neon/ subdir containing version 0.29.0,
but Subversion needs neon 0.28.4.

An appropriate version of neon could not be found, so libsvn_ra_neon
will not be built.  If you want to build libsvn_ra_neon, please either
install neon 0.28.4 on this system

or

get neon 0.28.4 from:
    http://www.webdav.org/neon/neon-0.28.4.tar.gz
unpack the archive using tar/gunzip and rename the resulting
directory from ./neon-0.28.4/ to ./neon/

no suitable neon found

… download 0.28.4, copy to sub folder, configure… yeah… works, finally. You can check whether it supports http via “svn –version”, there should be a ra_neon module.

Developed by Microsoft P&P.

Spring.Net, http://www.springframework.net/, Apache 2.0 License

Port from the famous Spring framework.

Castle, http://www.castleproject.org/, Apache 2.0 License

The first .Net IoC Container?

StructureMap, http://structuremap.sourceforge.net/, Apache 2.0 License

Looks good.

The fifth?

[updated on Sep 14th]

Yes, just know the fifth,

Ninject: http://code.google.com/p/ninject/ Apache 2.0 License. No comment yet…