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  • Michigan Boy, 9, Fatally Stabbed at Playground

    A 12-year-old boy fatally stabbed a nine-year-old at a Kentwood, Michigan playground on Monday.

    The incident occurred at a play area at the Pinewood Village Mobile Home Park, where 9-year-old Michael Conner Verkerke was stabbed in the back. According to the Kentwood police department, the boy died of his injuries at an area hospital.

    Kentwood Police Chief Tom Hillen said the 12-year-old attacker, who lives in the area, approached three other boys, then pulled out the kitchen knife and started stabbing Verkerke repeatedly. An autopsy will reveal how many times Verkerke was stabbed.

    After the assault, the attacker walked over to a neighboring house to ask to use a cellphone. Witness Glen Stacey explained, “The young man approached my house wanting to borrow my phone. I assumed he wanted to call his mother. And he said, ‘Hi. I stabbed someone. Please pick me up.’ So I calmly started doing my normal stuff. I didn’t want to agitate him.”

    Stacey said the tween also admitted to taking pills earlier in the day, and when police arrived, he calmly turned himself in and mentioned that he wanted to end his life. He also commented that he didn’t want to be on earth any longer. Chief Hillen said it appears the boys were not previously acquainted, and police are trying to determine if the attack was random.

    Stacey added, “To see a kid this young not to feel loved, I’m really saddened. I hope he gets the help that he needs. This kid is reaching out for help – I can tell -but he’s reaching for it in the wrong ways.”

    Eleven-year-old Tayah Fritch, who said she’s friends with Verkerke, commented, “He didn’t deserve this.”

    The attacker was taken to an area hospital for evaluation, and is presently in custody at the Kent County Juvenile Detention Center, pending formal charges. If the boy is charged with murder, he will be the second youngest in Michigan history. The youngest was Nathaniel Abraham, who was 11 when he was arrested in 1997.

    “We are still investigating and trying to determine a cause for this tragedy,” police said in a statement.

    Image via Wikimedia Commons

  • OAuth 2.0 Playground Hits The Chrome Web Store

    The OAuth 2.0 Playground is one of those tools that makes life easier for developers. Google made it so that they could play around with the OAuth 2.0 protocol and related APIs. There’s a new kid on the figurative block now and his name is Google Drive.

    Google announced that the Google Drive API is now available in the OAuth 2.0 Playground. This will allow developer to test out apps that use the Drive API before pushing it out to market. The Playground is somewhat limited, however, as it only allows developers to access files that their own app has created or files that were opened through the Google Drive interface by their app. There was no way to open a file from the Drive UI through the OAuth 2.0 Playground.

    To help rectify this problem, Google has created a simple and elegant solution – a Chrome Web Store app. You can now grab the OAuth 2.0 Playground app which features Google Drive integration. Once installed, the OAuth 2.0 Playground app will become a part of Google Drive. Once there, it will be able to open any Drive file in the Playground.

    Using the OAuth 2.0 Playground app is super simple. Just go to the file that you want to open with the Playground, right click and go to “Open with.” If you have the Playground app installed, it should give you an option to open the file with the app. It gives the Playground access to the file and then you’re redirected to the OAuth flow to start poking around.

    The new app should help developers in their creation of Drive-enabled apps. Google Drive apps have the potential to change how we collaborate on projects. Use this new functionality to your advantage to show people the power of real-time collaboration over the cloud.

    You can grab the OAuth 2.0 Playground app at the Chrome Web Store. Have fun experimenting and playing around with the APIs.

  • Google: OAuth 2.0 Playground Gets New Features

    Google launched the super handy OAuth 2.0 Playground last december which lets developers play around with the OAuth 2.0 protocol and APIs that use it. Never the one to let good enough stay good, Google has added new features that turn the good into great.

    The list of new features added to OAuth 2.0 playground is extensive and includes many helpful tools for the developers who use it. The first change is adding support for client-side flow in OAuth 2.0. You can do this by changing the configuration from “server-side” to “client-side.”

    There is now support for newer OAuth 2.0 drafts. The support is extended to an authorization header with a Bearer prefix and the access_token URL parameter locations. This change makes playground compatible with most APIs that support OAuth 2.0.

    Using your current access token, you can now display all available API operations. To do this, click on the “Find available Request URIs” button. This should be bring all operations with their associated HTTP methods and URIs.

    Whenever you request an access token in OAuth 2.0 Playground, you are given a finite number of seconds until that access token expires. You can now check a box that will automatically refresh your access token before it expires.

    The responses are fielded to you in an HTTP response. You can click on the links inside it, however, to repopulate the “Request URI” field to set up the next operation.

    All the changes brought to OAuth 2.0 Playground are here to make your time with it easier and quicker. It’s all about optimizing your time and code. These new additions should do that swimmingly.