Posterous was a simple blogging platform started in May 2008, funded by Y Combinator. In February 2013, Posterous announced that they would be shutting down the service on 30 April 2013.
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smtp e-mail headers: return-path vs. sender vs. from
Please help me make some order with email headers.
What does each of the following mean: return-path, sender, from.
The question is being asked in the context of an email receiving app (let's say a posterous clone).
What can be easily faked?
What…
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Unescaping Characters in a JSON response string
I made a JSON request that gives me a string that uses Unicode character codes that looks like:
s = "\u003Cp\u003E"
And I want to convert it to:
s = "
" What's the best way to do this in Python? Note, this is the same question as this one, only…
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What does "Liquid error: private method `gsub' called for nil:NilClass" mean on a posterous blog?
I have faced an issue with this message on the right side of my blog. Could you please help me out?
William Richards
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Accepting Command-Line Arguments into a Ruby Script
I'm trying to use the following code to accept in a file as an argument in Terminal which will then be read and update the body variable with its contents. If the file is not passed in then I want to have the prompt where the user can enter their…
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div height 100%
I know this has been asked a million times, but I haven't had much luck making it work.I'm working on a Posterous layout, and I'm trying to get my may content to flow to the bottom.
Here is a link to the layout so far
You can see that the content is…
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Unescaping characters in a string with Ruby
Given a string in the following format (the Posterous API returns posts in this format):
s="\\u003Cp\\u003E"
How can I convert it to the actual ascii characters such that s="
"? On OSX, I successfully used Iconv.iconv('ascii', 'java', s) but once…
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How to use Posterous API to 'scrape' my own site for contributor info, date info, and response info
As a college teacher in STEM, I like it when I can use technology to enhance the learning experience of my students, and I doubly like it when it allows me to introduce them to cool tech, too.
During the last year, I've had a couple classes make…
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Generate Subdomain From PHP form
I would like to create a registration page which takes user information and generates a user profile subdomain. Example www.UserName.Domain.com similar to posterous. I don't even know where to start, I'm guessing PHP forms with some server side…
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posterous api request with jquery only
I am trying to use jquery to interact with posterous api , however I am unable to make sense of url and how parameters will be passed . I am using this :
$.ajax({
type: 'GET',
url :…
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Bookmarklet for github gist paste service?
I would like something like in posterous, for example (see here). Just a link on my browser that allows me to grab the code or pre blocks inside a web page, and choose the one to add to my gists.
Anybody knows if something similar exists? How can I…
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How do I get Facebook to use a thumbnail picture from my Posterous post?
When I share a link on Facebook from Posterous, I would like it to use a thumbnail image from that post or even the YouTube video.
Is it possible to do this?
At the minute if I share a link e.g. http://www.dan.ag/the-brick-thief-a-lego-short-film it…
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How can I store customizable themes for different clients like posterous.com?
What is the best way to store themes + css for different clients like posterous.com does?
Do they store entire css for each client? Is this sustainable for large number if clients?
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Posterous API to post to posterous?
I am looking for a (PHP) tutorial that shows how I can programattically post contents of a blog on my site, to my posterous blog.
In case there are no online resources, I will be grateful if someone could post a little snippet in here that shows how…
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How to access and extract emails from a SMTP server using APIs
How can I extract extract emails and attachments using an API from a SMTP (Mail) server?
I was trying to figure out how Posterous worked. I found this open source project but it had no source code.
https://code.google.com/p/os-posterous/
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Import wordpress blog to joomla
how to import my wordpress blog to my new joomla3.0 website. Any option to insert posterous backup into joomla3.0 directly ?
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