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Switching to Oauth 2.0 on facebook

Curtis Rutledge — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:15:37 +0000

So yeah maybe this post is a little late. Facebook deprecated fbml ages ago. I finally had to get around to
switching over to Oauth 2.0 since the application I wrote broke down once again.
However switching to Oauth 2.0 on facebook isn’t all that obvious. The examples often don’t work.
Here’s one of the bigger issues.

Dealing with redirects for Oauth.

		$app_id = "133713371337";
		$app_secret = "iamsecretsoicanttellyou";   

		$cfg_array = array(
		    'appId' => $app_id,
		    'secret' => $this->appsecret,
		);

		$facebook = new Facebook($cfg_array);
		$user_id = $facebook->getUser();

		if( $user_id == 0 || !isset( $user_id ) )
		{
			$login_url = $facebook->getLoginUrl(array( 'canvas' => 1,
			                                           'fbconnect' => 0,
			                                           'scope' => 'email,user_birthday,publish_actions,publish_stream',
			                                           'redirect_uri' => $config->app_url ));

			echo"";
			echo "";
			exit;
		}

This is as clean and simple as I could make the code. Originally I was doing the redirect_uri myself based on certain $_REQUEST params that facebook sends your app such as “code” “ref”.

Next up is going to be the facebook dialogs.
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/fbjs/

We are deprecating FBJS. On Jan 1, 2012: FBJS will no longer be supported on Platform. June 1, 2012: FBJS apps will no longer work. All FBJS endpoints are removed. If you are building a new app on Facebook.com, please implement your app using HTML, JavaScript and CSS.

PHP base_convert

Curtis Rutledge — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:25:25 +0000

I wrote a simple tool to visualize numbers in different bases to help solve a math problem I was thinking about
the other day. It uses PHP.
click here to use

Convert numbers

Use this form to convert numbers between different bases.

This can be useful for visualizating numbers in different bases.

if( isset( $_REQUEST["input_data"] ) )
{
$base_in = $_REQUEST["base_in"];
$base_out = $_REQUEST["base_out"];
$input_data = $_REQUEST["input_data"];
$lines = preg_split(“/(\r?\n)/”, $input_data);
$lines_count = count( $lines );

echo “ output in base $base_out
”;
foreach( $lines as $line)
{
// do stuff with $line
echo base_convert( $line, $base_in, $base_out).”\n
”;
}
}
?>

Visual Basic Datagrid Sort + Filter

Curtis Rutledge — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:42:43 +0000

How to: Group, Sort, and Filter Data in the DataGrid Control

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd833072(v=vs.95).aspx

I couldn’t set a filter function in my case but I could use a customfilter which worked pretty good.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.data.bindinglistcollectionview.customfilter.aspx

For some reason this link is the 3rd or 4th page or worse when searching on google.
It should be higher up then most of the useless posts out there in blog land.

Downloading files from putlocker.

Curtis Rutledge — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:53:21 +0000

Steps for manually downloading files from putlocker.

1. View source.

2. Go to http://www.putlocker.com/get_file.php?stream=BA0A099EFEE12E42

3. View Source

I wanted to download some media off of putlocker. Seems they don’t protect their data very well.
This is probably why this company never got that big. At least youtube tries to protect the users data.

Download Image Map Reduce Hadoop Jar

Curtis Rutledge — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:50:44 +0000

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Download Filestream Custom Map Reduce Hadoop Jar

Curtis Rutledge — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:45:32 +0000

Download Filestreammapreduce.jar

Womens FIFA World Cup Soccer Calculating RPI

Curtis Rutledge — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:07:02 +0000

Hello,
I’ve written a small PHP program last night to generate FIFA womens team stats.
I decided to post the stats here. I really like calculating RPI statistics as it gives you a very good meter to measure team strength with.

2002-2010 Womens World Cup FIFA RPI.

Here’s a compilation of all the team stats since 2002-2010.
It should be accurate but I might be missing some games (150 games total).
It’s probably not the most useful data as teams change, same with players, coaches, playing styles etc.

id	team	team win %	Opponents%	Opponentsx2 %	RPI	goals total	games	avg pts/game
1	MEX	0.208	0.536	0.505	0.446	18	13	1.385
2	GER	0.736	0.503	0.503	0.561	80	28	2.857
3	FIN	0	0.586	0.476	0.412	1	3	0.333
4	NGA	0.514	0.447	0.499	0.477	33	21	1.571
5	CAN	0.6	0.46	0.51	0.508	38	16	2.375
6	BRA	0.614	0.52	0.499	0.538	48	25	1.92
7	ENG	0.278	0.437	0.46	0.403	13	11	1.182
8	AUS	0.35	0.474	0.492	0.448	18	11	1.636
9	CHI	0	0.347	0.45	0.286	3	3	1
10	NZL	0.25	0.466	0.475	0.414	12	9	1.333
11	THA	0	0.562	0.479	0.401	0	3	0
12	RUS	0.357	0.53	0.505	0.481	11	8	1.375
13	GHA	0.6	0.48	0.521	0.52	5	3	1.667
14	JPN	0.6	0.471	0.504	0.512	19	11	1.727
15	KOR	0.556	0.485	0.52	0.512	16	9	1.778
16	SUI	0	0.622	0.494	0.435	2	6	0.333
17	DEN	0.25	0.65	0.458	0.502	5	4	1.25
18	USA	0.885	0.455	0.516	0.578	71	28	2.536
19	TPE	0	0.504	0.455	0.366	1	3	0.333
20	PRK	0.75	0.508	0.515	0.57	38	16	2.375
21	FRA	0.484	0.523	0.513	0.511	25	16	1.563
23	NOR	0.333	0.524	0.521	0.476	4	3	1.333
24	COD	0	0.596	0.496	0.422	2	6	0.333
25	ARG	0.273	0.563	0.512	0.478	6	6	1
26	ESP	0.333	0.599	0.49	0.505	3	3	1
27	CHN	0.643	0.522	0.504	0.548	21	15	1.4
29	COL	0.364	0.501	0.497	0.466	7	6	1.167
30	CRC	0	0.528	0.509	0.391	2	3	0.667
32	ITA	0	0.59	0.496	0.419	3	3	1
80	SWE	0.714	0.494	0.499	0.55	6	4	1.5

Over/Under Table
This table gives you the % of games that are over or under the various point totals.

id	pts over	pts under
0	0.95302013422819	0.046979865771812
0.5	0.95302013422819	0.046979865771812
1	0.85906040268456	0.14093959731544
1.5	0.85906040268456	0.14093959731544
2	0.63758389261745	0.36241610738255
2.5	0.63758389261745	0.36241610738255
3	0.42953020134228	0.57046979865772
3.5	0.42953020134228	0.57046979865772

2010 Womens World Cup FIFA RPI.

This might be more useful as it only uses 2010 match data. It’s the recent relative team strengths.
RPI is usually a very good indicator of how a team will do. You can can compare two teams often by looking
at their RPI, whatever team has the higher RPI will most of the time come out the winner.

id	team	team win %	Opponents%	Opponentsx2 %	RPI	goals total	games	avg pts/game
1	MEX	0.5	0.483	0.505	0.493	6	4	1.5
2	GER	1	0.466	0.548	0.62	20	6	3.333
4	NGA	0.667	0.522	0.503	0.554	6	6	1
6	BRA	0.4	0.405	0.461	0.418	5	3	1.667
7	ENG	0	0.589	0.465	0.411	2	3	0.667
10	NZL	0	0.538	0.416	0.373	3	3	1
13	GHA	0.6	0.444	0.55	0.51	5	3	1.667
14	JPN	0.6	0.389	0.531	0.477	7	3	2.333
15	KOR	0.667	0.522	0.522	0.558	13	6	2.167
16	SUI	0	0.644	0.483	0.443	0	3	0
18	USA	0.667	0.483	0.533	0.542	8	4	2
20	PRK	0.5	0.529	0.431	0.497	5	4	1.25
21	FRA	0.6	0.455	0.576	0.522	4	3	1.333
29	COL	0.364	0.608	0.489	0.517	7	6	1.167
30	CRC	0	0.655	0.51	0.455	2	3	0.667
80	SWE	0.714	0.316	0.52	0.467	6	4	1.5

Over/Under Table
This table gives you the % of games that are over or under the various point totals.

id	pts over	pts under
0	0.96969696969697	0.03030303030303
0.5	0.96969696969697	0.03030303030303
1	0.81818181818182	0.18181818181818
1.5	0.81818181818182	0.18181818181818
2	0.48484848484848	0.51515151515152
2.5	0.48484848484848	0.51515151515152
3	0.36363636363636	0.63636363636364
3.5	0.36363636363636	0.63636363636364

RPI

Definition: In its current formulation,
the index comprises a team’s winning percentage (25%),
its opponents’ winning percentage (50%),
and the winning percentage of those opponents’ opponents (25%).

Verotel WordPress Plugin

Curtis Rutledge — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:54:56 +0000

Welcome,

This plugin gives you all of the features of the Verotel perl script for remote user management without requiring you to use basic http authentication.

You can easily upgrade your website to stop using .htaccess/.htpasswd files.
You will also being making it more secure when you upgrade the length of the passcodes from 13 characters to 34 after users login for the first time.

How to setup:

Copy and unzip contents to the wordpress plugin folder \wp-content\plugins\btg_verotel
Signup for a Verotel sellers account.
Import existing users in wordpress admin panel. Users => BTG Import Users
Follow steps and setup account on verotel website.
Setup the secured URL on the Verotel website so users can automatically be added to your wordpress database:
Follow the same instructions found for script.pl or verotelrum.pl but instead use the script btg_verotel.php (You can rename the file to anything.php)
Secured URL: http://www.domain.com/wp-login.php (This is the first page users see who have signed up make it the login page, normally this is the portal to your secure data.)
RUM URL: http://www.domain.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/btg_verotel/btg_verotel.php?
When complete make sure to get a Test Request

FAQ:

Is there an evaluation option or trial offer for the plugin?
Sorry, there is no evaluation for the plugin. You may purchase the plugin for $25 now and then cancel the subscription if you no longer wish to use it for your website or buy the plugin outright for $125.

Does the plugin solely work together with the user-management part of wordpress or will it protect my files?
No it does not protect files. It only adds and removes users from wordpress. You will have to use a separate tool/plugin
to protect files such as pay plugins like wishlist members or free
plugins like this member access plugin .

Files will have to be protected separately by a wordpress user-management system (It has been tested/developed with wishlist member in mind).

or you can simply put an .htaccess file in /protected_files/.htaccess (or wordpress/uploads if that is where you start uploading your files) that would look like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^.*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*wordpress_logged_in.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule . – [R=403,L]
What kind of support do you offer?
The plugin will be updated to work with the latest offerings from Verotel.
Any questions in the comment section will be answered immediately.
New features will be added from feature requests made by customers.

Buy Now $125

Single site subscription and evaluation $25/month:

Multisite subscription $45/mth.

How you can test if everything is ok your side.

To create a user go to your sites url (in my case it’s localhost/wordpressplugin)
usercode=testaccount
passcode=testpass (It needs to be encrypted with md5 because that’s what verotel does with passwords)
amount=0.0 (how much it costs to purchase the membership, usually used for membership levels, duration)

Test add a user

http://localhost/wordpressplugin/wp-content/plugins/btg_verotel/btg_verotel.php?trn=add&usercode=testaccount&passcode=179ad45c6ce2cb97cf1029e212046e81&amount=0.0

APPROVED

Then Login on wordpress

http://localhost/wordpressplugin/wp-login.php

Then test delete the user

http://localhost/wordpressplugin/wp-content/plugins/btg_verotel/btg_verotel.php?trn=delete&usercode=testaccount

APPROVED

If it says anything other then approved in response then there’s a problem on your side that would cause verotel to reject the response.

If everything is still not working then comment/delete this line as it could be blocking off their test server:
if( !remote_ip_address_allowed( $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] ) )
{
die( “connection from $_SERVER[REMOTE_ADDR] denied” );
}

Finally double check your RUM url on verotel, it could be wrong?
RUM URL: http://www.domain.com/wp-content/plugins/btg_verotel/btg_verotel.php?