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Using Bit.ly in CodeIgniter

I love Bit.ly.  You can make any URL you want short, you can your own URL it keeps it forever and you can even track hits.  Happily, they even make this available to API calls so you can automatically use it on your own site.  I’ve written a simple library that allows CodeIgniter to access the API and then caches it locally.

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Twitter for CodeIgniter

Recently, I’ve been working on an OAuth API (server and client both written in CodeIgniter).  After finishing it, it occured to me that I could just as easily use it for my API as I could for Twitter with a few modifications.

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