Output clean JSON data from Twitter API v1.1 using PHP

I was making a mobile app with Tersus (WYSIWYG RAD) as a school project, and I noticed Twitter no longer has an open XML feed. I looked around and most of the Twitter apps I saw were outdated or simply used the Twitter widget (JS only). For that reason, I took a few hours out of my day to develop a workflow for interacting with Twitter in PHP using the TwitterOAuth library, which is a very nice object-oriented abstraction layer for the generic OAuth library (included with previously mentioned library).

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Unity Shaders and Effects Cookbook

I had a chance to read Unity Shaders and Effects Cookbook by Kenneth Lammers.

It is a really nice book and could very well be my shaders bible. Check out my review.

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Programming Language Name Origins

C++ was made originally to be a preprocessor for the C language. It was coined CPP, PP standing for preprocessor, and used that as one of the acceptable source file name extensions. Later, when CPP was beginning to look like its own language, it was re-coined C++, changing the P's to plus signs to signify it was no longer just a C preprocessor.
What is a preprocessor? In the case of CPP, it was an extension of the C language's features that allowed for more features, like header files and conditionally compiled code. It did this by processing the syntax of CPP into C code before compiling with a C compiler. Interestingly enough, the Haxe language works in a similar way.

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