Archive for the ‘twitter’ Category
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
I put a small service together on 32Hours to "ping" Twitter services. The services available to check Twitter were not helping me much, so I decided to write a little app that actually checks a few extra things:
1) Is Twitter is up (they all do this, but it's not enough ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
I've gotten linked into a bit of a mess related to Twitter. It appears that a Twitter user named Tocaya posted a message, which then appeared as coming from another Twitter user, Louis Gray. Very bad news. The part where I come into the picture? BeTwittered was the source of ...
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
PreBeTwittered has come a long way this weekend. I actually got several hours to update it. I've changed the interface a bit. I also added replies, direct messaging. Everything seems to be working, even in IE, which can be a serious challenge sometimes. Because everything does seem to be working, ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
An interesting issue has begun to take the front seat for BeTwittered, our Twitter client for iGoogle. Load on a server is a simple problem. More load requires more CPU, RAM, bandwidth, etc. Very uncomplicated, yes? Now, ignoring other factors, like web ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
I got a bit of a lesson this morning. I updated BeTwittered, and was very pleased. Well, until I noticed that the formatting was junk. What did I learn? Stylesheets get cached, and pretty liberally. So if you were using BeTwittered this morning, and it suddenly looked a bit clunky, ...
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
I need a bit of help. I'd like to make a couple of improvements to BeTwittered, but I have a couple of questions I need some feedback on. I'm wondering if you (if you use BeTwittered) would like me to add those "posted about 1 hour ago" type ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
I've been hacking about in PHP again. Found that my use of ereg was outdated by pcre's preg while listening to PHP Architects "Pro PHP podcast." Besides these archane regular expression changes internally, I've made some nice changes to BeTwittered, my Twitter gadget for Google homepage. I've made clickable links ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
I spent a bit of time this morning adding to my error handling in BeTwittered. Around 8am there was a bit of a service issue at, I believe, the Twitter server end, but I had no way to confirm it. I was, as my own customer, just getting my ...
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
BeTwittered has been on Google as a homepage gadget for a couple of weeks now. Today I created a mobile version that is more useable on a phone -> http://32hours.com/betwittered. You can follow the link to have a look, even from your computer. This version drops some ...
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
I'm really thinking seriously about getting an iPhone, but only for testing purposes, of course. I would never buy a cool gadget because I'm drawn to cool gadgets like a cat to the other side of the street. OK, so I do want one ...
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