Archive for the ‘web’ Category

Twitter Ping checks Twitter services

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 ...

Twitter identity controversy? Or a Betwittered Bug? Oy!

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 ...

Customized Webapps with Prism

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Here is a link to a LifeHacker story about Prism. Feature: Create Distraction-Free, Customized Webapps with Prism Prism really has my attention and imagination. I REALLY like how I can run BeTwittered as if it were a regular desktop application. There it is, floating about like a normal ...

BeTwittered updates are live.

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, ...

BeTwittered, PHP and file_get_contents

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 ...

Mobile Version of BeTwittered

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 ...

Do you use Twitter and iGoogle?

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

I've gotten a PHP version of a Google (iGoogle) gadget working.  It follows your friends, and allows you to post, so far. Check it out at 32hours.com, or the direct article link. It's working, and I'll be improving it pretty quickly.

Using .htaccess To Redirect Visitors and Search Engines

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

So I learned something new today. I've had this blog at http://robert.arlesnet.com for quite a while, but also had a site I never updated at http://www.arlesnet.com. I had finally decided it made more sense to have all "arlesnet.com" visitors end up at my blog rather than some unmaintained ...

RaBlog — Who’s visiting?

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

RaBlog - I've always assumed nobody ever visited this site. I've started checking out the traffic using Google analytics. Interestingly, to me anyway, I get some guests. That started me wondering how people get here, and what they do after they arrive. Is it just random ...

“Amazon Top 10 (tech)” Google Gadget is published

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Google has published my gadget. You can now find it in their directory by following this link. It was interesting to find this when I searched the google gadget directory. Interesting because I applied for it, but got no response.