Reading Time: 3 minutes To post an Update on LinkedIn via your application, that is being built with Play 2.3.x, follow these steps ( this post summarizes the work done step by step). 1) Create a LinkedIn app (if you do not have one already) Click here – LinkedIn’s Developer Quick Start Guide and create an app. Enter all the details including Site URL. The Site URL could be something like Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes To integrate a Sign in with LinkedIn functionality in your social project that is being built with Play 2.2.1, follow these steps ( this post summarizes the work done step by step). 1) Create a LinkedIn app (if you do not have one already) Follow the link https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/quick-start-guide and create an app. Enter all the details including Site URL . The Site URL could be something Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes Continuing our series on providing authentication via third party OAuth/Open ID providers, in this post we look at Google. We have already covered sign in with Facebook and Sign in with Twitter in the past. We walk through a step by step scenario to make it work for a Lift based application. Most of the steps would be the same for Play as well. 1) Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Recently in one of our social projects that we are building with Lift 2.4, we had a requirement to sign in with Twitter amongst others like Facebook and Google. This post summarizes the work done step by step. 1) Create a Twitter App (if you do not have one already) Follow the link https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new and create an app. Remember to enter a Callback URL (we Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes All right, I am the hottest twitter application called TweetDekk (replace it with any hypothetical name) and I want you to give me your twitter username and password so that you can send tweets using me. Sounds scary? May be it was not that scary a year back when Twitter had not moved to OAuth. However, now many of us would not dare to share Continue Reading
