sMash, Twitter and OAuth

Here’s a little example sMash app showing how to authenticate with Twitter using OAuth. If you’re not familiar with OAuth, here’s a good introduction (part II is especially useful).

This example uses the signpost OAuth library. The code is based on this simple signpost example.

Accessing DB2 from sMash

I couldn’t find a simple example that explicitly shows how to connect to DB2 from sMash, so I put one together. You can grab the resulting example sMash application using the zero command line like this:

 zero modulegroup addurl http://soal.org/sMash/repo/
 zero create db2App from soal:db2App

(On a side note, notice how I’m hosting a zero repository containing my app right here on soal.org!