I’ve been playing around with Twitter (mbuckbee) more and more as a sort of generalized IM client and lightweight blogging tool. I wanted to get it setup so that BuzzwordCompliant posts would automatically update on Twitter. I played around with a few of the WordPress Twitter Plugins, but they haven’t been working very well, so Scott Beale of LaughingSquid fame pointed me to how he setup TwitterFeed for this.
Twitterfeed relies upon OpenID for authentication. If you are not familiar with OpenID, it’s a way to help simplify having different usernames and passwords on a bunch of different websites (if you have a username somewhere like mike3041, this is the service for you).
So, because this is likely to be in a very real way MY identity I wanted to run the OpenID server myself rather than using a third party service that might have issues out of my control. Googling around there were a number of different OpenID servers done in PHP and Ruby that were a bit too much for what I needed to do.
Finally, I found phpMyID which is an extremely easy to configure single user OpenID implementation. You modify two files to have your username and password (with some security measures) and upload them to your server. That’s it. Highly recommended.
WHAT TO DO NOW?