Re: Advice for a newbie

2009-01-03 Thread Alex Payne
Yes, I'm one of the technical editors for the book, and we're working with the author and editor to keep them abreast of changes to the API. On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 14:32, Stuart wrote: > > 2009/1/2 Alex Payne : >> O'Reilly has the "rough cut" of their book on the Twitter API >> available: http:/

Re: Advice for a newbie

2009-01-02 Thread Nicole Simon
@Twittergator You do not necessary need a programming language to play around with the api. Sure, if you really want to do stuff, you need the api, but simpler stuff is possible with command line tools like wget and Excel (excel does reads rss once you get the idea) The problem is that people

Re: Advice for a newbie

2009-01-02 Thread Stuart
2009/1/2 Alex Payne : > O'Reilly has the "rough cut" of their book on the Twitter API > available: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596157791/. They are aware that you guys are about to change it all right?? -Stuart -- http://stut.net/

Re: Advice for a newbie

2009-01-02 Thread Alex Payne
O'Reilly has the "rough cut" of their book on the Twitter API available: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596157791/. On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 17:46, Ninjamonk wrote: > > I would suggest learning a programming language, how restful > webserices work, then reading the twitter api docs. > > If they al

Re: Advice for a newbie

2009-01-01 Thread Ninjamonk
I would suggest learning a programming language, how restful webserices work, then reading the twitter api docs. If they already know something like php etc then I would suggest grabbing an existing library and reading the twitter api docs On Jan 2, 1:15 am, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > > If a co

Re: Advice for a newbie

2009-01-01 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> If a complete novice to the twitter API with little or no web > developing knowledge was to ask for suggestions on where to start with > learning how to build a twitter app, what would you suggest? > > I am researching for a new blog post and would greatly appreciate you > views on this. If yo

Advice for a newbie

2009-01-01 Thread twittergator
Hi Guys, If a complete novice to the twitter API with little or no web developing knowledge was to ask for suggestions on where to start with learning how to build a twitter app, what would you suggest? I am researching for a new blog post and would greatly appreciate you views on this. Thanks in