I mentioned a couple of posts ago that I was going to probably be more active in NaNoWriMo updates on Twitter, that coupled with the small edits I did to make the NaNo box less buggy made me want to work on the Twitter box. I mentioned it was broken here. Well, it has been updated a few more times and has much better backwards compatibility (or maybe it was a library dependency that was removed...don't remember), so all the rewriting I was going to have to do turned into a very little about of rewriting. Procrastination FTW!
The Twitter Post - Twitter - Site News
Posted on: 2009-04-17 13:48:12[ More - 4 comments ]
I have been saying for some time now that I would write a post talking about Twitter. It has been kind of difficult narrowing down why people use it, because people use it for varrying reasons and it is hard to sum all those up or figure out why it would be usable for an individual. I have also been debating on just how I should break down how the services works and its strengths and flaws.
A little more versatility - Site News - Design - Twitter
Posted on: 2009-04-09 07:59:33[ More - 5 comments ]I have spent another night going crazy coding. I have finished up my Twitter project, or at least all I want to do with the API until the next version is released. The wife and I now have all our tweets backed up, rantfest is polling twitter.com for all our new ones, and we can choose to display them like I am doing on the left. It trys to update every twenty minutes, and if the REST api is up, it succeeds in its attempt.
Small Victory over Twitter - Twitter - Site News
Posted on: 2009-04-07 04:59:40[ More - 2 comments ]The twitter recap: About five to six months ago I added the first twitter box to rantfest. It was kind of rough, I basically parsed out the info I wanted from the RSS feed and displayed it on the page. It worked most of the time but, it had a library issue. It could use one of a couple of libraries for xml handling, but it would periodically get confused getting the data back out (I think it was sending to one library and then asking another one for the answer). So half the time it would either appear to not do anything or it would error out so bad it would cause the page to die. I eventually got annoyed with it and took it out.
New colors and still no Twitter Happiness - Site News - Twitter
Posted on: 2009-04-06 23:36:33[ More - 2 comments ]Ah, far more open. I knew when I made my last theme that I was going to replace it in short order, I just figured I would polish up what had been there and open it up some. After toying with the images some, I decided I wanted something totally different. I just couldn't open it up enough to make me happy. I also figured that I would make some slight adjustments to the footer while I was at it. The green probably comes from all the comics I have been reading lately...lots of Skrulls.
Bad twitter api - Site News - Twitter
Posted on: 2009-03-27 15:32:04[ More - Add comment ]I updated to the latest version of the Twitter API and now I am getting updates from other people instead of my own...which is what I want. Yay!
Snow Day 2, Electric Boogaloo - Twitter - Site News - Work
Posted on: 2009-01-30 22:04:10[ More - Add comment ]I ended up at work on Wednesday after all. The snow let up, the sun came out, and the plows were able to get around more, so I ran to grab the van and open the store around 3:00pm. Only 4 people walked through the door and only two of them bought anything. But it was six hours I got paid to sit around and surf the web. Of course, I had to use Quiznos' open wifi since our internet was down. I spent most of the time working with the Twitter API. Sadly, it seems the web services are down quite a bit, which makes me wonder if my last Twitter implementation had its random failures because of how it was coded or because Twitter's web services were down all the time. Either way, using the core api will give me more options if I ever want to explore them.
We all carry on. - WoW - Twitter - Books - Games - Computer - Misc
Posted on: 2009-01-27 14:56:29[ More - Add comment ]I am still really enjoying Windows 7. The only problem is that it lives on my laptop which I normally only interact with to play movies. I really want to run it on my desktop, but, at least for the moment, I don't have the space to partition out a new drive for it to live on and I have failed the few attempts I have made into getting it to run in a virtual machine. Oh well, if all goes well at tax time (waiting on one W-2) we might be able to budget a 1TB hard drive (which I am going to call Christmas from Mom and Dad since I spent the money they gave me for Chrsitmas on bills.) If that happens, I shouldn't have any reason to complain about storage for awhile and, after combining all our data on it, should have a spare harddrive or 4 to mess with.
No face for you. - NaNoWriMo - Site News - Twitter
Posted on: 2008-11-10 14:27:36[ More - Add comment ]As is obvious, I made some changes to the layout. Basically, I remembered why I hate using images and got rid of the two biggest ones. Which, since I was getting tired of looking at myself, worked out great. The pics being gone, I pushed everything up and decided to widen the left bar some so the twitter box was more readable. After pixel adjusting it way to much and not being happy with any of the results, I threw in the towel and broke out the golden ratio. Now when I am debating on whether the side bar is too wide or too slim, I can blame centuries of mathematicians. I similarly used the golden ratio as a excuse for a piece I did for one of my Ivy Tech classes after I spent way too much time on different projects.
Twitter and lawn voting. - Twitter - SPAM - Politics - Site News
Posted on: 2008-10-23 20:26:51[ More - 2 comments ]I had been planning on spending the day working on a better comment tracking system (and I still might later), but I got distracted by other stuff on the page. I made a couple of small changes to the site: categories and recent comments are displayed again (categories were in a dropdown thingie that did not work in all browsers). I also added a Twitter box. We will have to see how long it is before I regret that one. It doesn't show every post, but the wife and I agreed on what should show given the limitations twitter already has in place. Twitter gives two easy methods to put these in pages, one flash and one javascript. So, of course, I did neither and hard coded it into rantfest. It took way the fuck longer to do, but I got to explore several perl modules in the process so it is all good. Besides, doing it this way we can make it fit in a little better.
