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Rodolfo Giometti
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Rodolfo Giometti

Rodolfo Giometti is an engineer, IT specialist, GNU/Linux expert and software libre evangelist. He is the author of the books BeagleBone Essentials, BeagleBone Home Automation Blueprints and GNU/Linux Rapid Embedded Programming by Packt Publishing and maintainer of the LinuxPPS projects. He still actively contributes to the Linux source code with several patches and new device drivers for industrial applications devices. During his 20+ years of experience, he has worked on the x86, ARM, MIPS, and PowerPC-based platforms. Now, he is the co-chief at HCE Engineering S.r.l., where he designs new hardware and software systems for the quick prototyping in industry environment, control automation, and remote monitoring.
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Setting up the software


After the hardware has been set up, most of the job is done; to finish our job, we need to first install a tool to get access to our Twitter account, and then we have to add a mechanism to call it each time a successful identification process is accomplished. So, in the following sections I'm going to show how to install and correctly set up a command line tool to communicate with Twitter and then how to call it in three different programming languages for three different identification systems.

To simplify the project a bit, we can use a static list of known IDs stored in each program, but you can understand that this list can be easily managed by an external database. So, I leave this implementation as an exercise for you.

Setting up the Twitter utility

The utility I'm going to use to get access to a Twitter account is named with the single character t. The t program, as reported on its home page, derives from the Twitter SMS commands:

The CLI takes syntactic cues from...

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Rodolfo Giometti

Rodolfo Giometti is an engineer, IT specialist, GNU/Linux expert and software libre evangelist. He is the author of the books BeagleBone Essentials, BeagleBone Home Automation Blueprints and GNU/Linux Rapid Embedded Programming by Packt Publishing and maintainer of the LinuxPPS projects. He still actively contributes to the Linux source code with several patches and new device drivers for industrial applications devices. During his 20+ years of experience, he has worked on the x86, ARM, MIPS, and PowerPC-based platforms. Now, he is the co-chief at HCE Engineering S.r.l., where he designs new hardware and software systems for the quick prototyping in industry environment, control automation, and remote monitoring.
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