Open Source Projects

Marc Worrell maintains a couple of Open Source projects. Most notably are:

OAuth-PHP
OAuth-PHP is a PHP library implementing both the consumer and server side of OAuth. You can easily integrate it in your web software to either accept or make OAuth authenticated requests.
Verso Wiki
A wiki library that translates Wiki to XHTML and XHTML back [...]

OAuth and URL encoding

Differences in URL encoding functions will make implementation of OAuth harder. There is an immediate need for correct parameter encoding implementations.
I maintain an implementation of OAuth. Whilst checking existing code and implementing my own version I wondered how some implementations will differ.
OAuth uses RFC3986 for the encoding of URI parameters. Another often used encoding scheme is RFC1738 or RFC2396 (updated in RFC2732).
The [...]

Solving Social Network Fatigue

A social network site is a website where we share some common interest with other people. That interest can be your personal life (Facebook), your professional career (LinkedIn), your sport, your hobby, or just a single conference (Picnic Network).
All these networks have one thing in common: they are walled gardens, islands that force their users [...]

Open-CI — The Technology

We are proposing a range of existing technologies to enable the federation of social networks. Some are quite new, some are well established. Here I give a short overview of the technologies and how to work together in creating a personal network.
We are not the only ones interested in integrating our content. So far, we’ve [...]