Posted Wed, 02/11/2009 - 06:50 by metarobert
Besides looking for work, I've put in a bit of time writing some code over the past week. I added a search tab to
BeTwittered and fixed some bugs, last night a wrote a little app called
BeTrendy that will be a google gadget (waiting approval), and now I'm starting to think about the AIR version of BeTwittered again. That would give me some wanted exposure to writing desktop apps on Adobe's AIR platform. I've already written quite a bit of it, and I was def
Posted Wed, 02/04/2009 - 06:46 by metarobert
So I'm at home today, my second "workday" home after getting cut during layoffs. BeTwittered died just a couple hours after that.
BeTwittered going down actually bothered me more than losing my job! So, today I get to the business of updating my resume and making contacts.
Posted Wed, 01/28/2009 - 06:36 by metarobert
I had such a hard time finding podcasts I liked, and was SO appreciative when I found someone else who had a list I liked, that I thought I'd better return the favor. Below is a list of the podcasts (or netcasts, if you prefer) that I'm currently subscribed to.
Subscribe:
RSS, Podcast - Home Page:
The Naked Scientists Naked Science Radio Show PODCAST - Stripping Down Science
Subscribe:
Posted Sun, 01/25/2009 - 15:07 by metarobert
Cooler looking, to me. Dont ya think?
Posted Sat, 01/03/2009 - 17:23 by metarobert
I just realized that I'd never "leaked" the web addresses for BeTwittered. There are currently four. One each for mobile, Twitter, the TWiT army canteen, and for Identica.
Posted Sat, 01/03/2009 - 06:44 by metarobert
on
32Hours I created a new install badge for BeTwittered, and made another more visible. I already had the iGoogle badge. Creating the Blogger badge and install was a pain. They sure don't help you out with usable instructions on what to do.
Posted Wed, 10/08/2008 - 05:03 by metarobert
I'm far from an expert on the topic of "unobtrusive Javascript," but I've seen some real benefits over the past couple of days. I've spent several hours re-writing BeTwittered, with some design ideas already in my head. One is the need to separate the front end (the web page) from the back end (the server and the data) Another idea was to move heavily to Javascript on the client-side, and to make it unobtrusive. The basic idea is to remove javascript code from the HTML.
Posted Tue, 09/16/2008 - 11:01 by metarobert
I had added the the ability to turn @user references to links in BeTwittered (Twitter client) quite a while back. Today, I reused that code to turn #tags to links in BeTwitted and Identify (Laconica clients). Basically the PHP code below takes plain text, looks for #tag references and replaces them with the required HTML to create a link. This code is not complete as I've not found a specification that defines the characters allowed in a #tag. It does convert the link to lowercase, while leaving the text as was originally typed.
Posted Fri, 09/12/2008 - 09:35 by metarobert
Today I added cookie checking to BeTwittered, BeTWiTted and Identify. It was pretty simple once I jumped in and just started. It was made a bit easier, too, due to the fact that they all start with a logon screen.
Basically what I did was to write a cookie called "today" setting the value to todays date. I specifically set it using this PHP code:
setcookie('today', date('mdy'), time()+7257600);
// 7257600 seconds=12 weeks - dont ask why, just 12 weeks.
Posted Thu, 09/11/2008 - 11:07 by metarobert
Over at
32Hours I posted links to the beta versions of the BeTwittered client that connect to
Identica and to the TWiT Army's
Canteen. Almost immediately after making the Canteen version available, I found that a simple port is OK, but that those darned Laconica servers actually have MORE features, not just a Twitter compatible API. I have a bug in BeTwittered to fix (favoriting has broken. bah) and now I have some features to add to the two new beta clients. A couple of those new features are
