OpenID, OAuth and webservices

Posted by Myles Eftos Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:48:00 GMT

Many on you would know that 88 Miles has had OpenID, OAuth and webservices for a while, and I'm quite a proponent of all three.

I'm lucky enough to be presenting a talk at Web directions in Sydney at the end of September. If you are lucky enough to be going to WDS08, please drop me a line!

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88 Miles adds OAuth - share your password no more!

Posted by Myles Eftos Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:37:00 GMT

Last month, 88 Miles added OpenID, allowing you to use a single sign in with out having to give us your password details. That is great unless you wanted to use our webservice API, which required a username and password.

This is no longer the case!

I have just pushed out an OAuth implementation, which allows 88 Miles user to grant access to 3rd party applications without providing a password! There are a number of pre-built libraries for a number of popular languages, which will make interfacing with 88 Miles easy.

If you are a developer, check out the development page for details

Finer grain user access

As part of this roll out, I also pushed a change which will allow you to select what users have access to particular projects and companies, so rather than an all-in (public) or all-out (private) company or project, you can select a subset of your staff members that will have access.

To do this, select the "Let me choose..." option for visibility when adding a Company or Project (You will need to select "More Details" first if you are on the projects page) and you will see all of you staff appear.

Happy time tracking!

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