Hi, I'm Pete Karl. I love semicolons, bulleted lists, lines, boxes, and arrows — I make recipes for the Web.

Connect to the Foursquare API via OAuth, Python

Everyone's talking about Foursquare, and everyone at my office is flipping obsessed. I chose to participate in the nerdiest way possible I guess. The following post will break down (and even explain, kinda) a connection to Foursquare's API using OAuth (and Python).

Updating a LinkedIn Status with a PUT request (using LinkedIn Profile API, Django, Python)

As part of a recent project, we were asked to set up a system that allowed folks to authenticate using their LinkedIn credentials. We used LinkedIn's Oauth Authentication API, and plugged it into Django's built-in user admin using django-socialauth. I'm writing this short guide because the Internet seems woefully disorganized & underinformed on this topic.

Prevent content copying nicely with a friendly 'no copy' script

It's miserable. There isn't any way to slice it. Hobbling browsers to keep people from copying your precious content is lame. During my tenure at GateHouse Media (newspaper company), I was asked to create & implement a script that would stop people from copying the content from our articles. "It's ludicrous", I said. If they're driven enough, people will find a way. Why mock them further?

Custom tabbed navigation with coda-slider 2.0

Believe it or not, this was kind of a pain in the butt. Just enough so that I'm going to belt out a quick blog post about it. It comes down to changing a single line of code in the end, but there are some gotchas I'll share w/you along the way.

Generate Date & Time picking HTML with PHP

Here's some PHP that generates date & time-picking drop-down menus.

Besides providing someone with a quick HTML-only solution to date/time picking, you can see how I generated the dates using PHP's mktime() and date() methods.