Hi, I'm Derek Gathright, Yahoo engineer by day, Twitter hacker by night. I first started with the platform by creating a web client a few years ago (Tweenky.com, currently suffering from a little neglect) and since went on to create a number of other random apps. After Tweenky's launch, TechCrunch picked it up and the traffic slammed the site, just about killing it. Performance was horrible, so I decided to fix the scaling issue by getting rid of a backend. Wha? How do you do that? I rewrote it in 99% JavaScript (the 1% being a cross-domain proxy). I first started with jQuery, and am now working on another rewrite in YUI3. In the past, it was easy to out-innovate the Twitter.com client, but nowdays it is hard to keep up with only a few hours/week. Slow down guys! :P
By doing all this experimentation with Twitter in JS, it's allowed, and inspired me, to learn so much about that language. Knowledge I otherwise probably wouldn't have, and that's what I love about the Twitter platform. It's so flexible and allows me to use it as the basis for tinkering around with any new technology I want. Feel like learning some new language or framework? Create a Twitter app. When the incredibly awesome JSFiddle.net came out, the first thing I did was hack together a YUI3/YQL/Twitter example to play around (http://jsfiddle.net/derek/Vjxt2/). Doing that with Facebook and other platforms would be more difficult than just a few lines of code. Anyways, </rambling> Cheers http://twitter.com/derek http://derekville.net On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Quy <quyten...@gmail.com> wrote: > My name is Quy Le (@quytennis) and I used to be a software engineer > but now I'm product manager at a high-tech company. I've been using > the Twitter API for the past 3 months on a Twitter project that > hopefully will go live in a few weeks. I've been using PHP/mySQL/ > memcached to build my site but it has been a slow process since I have > a day job and I'm relearning some of the new technology since I > haven't touched a piece of code in over 8-9 years. (Designing for IE6 > sucks). > > The feature I would love the most is a conversation API so it's easy > to show conversations based on a tweet. > > Quy > > On Feb 19, 1:20 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We have not had an introductions thread in a long time (or ever that I > could > > find) so I'm starting one. Don't forget to add an answer to the tools > thread > > [1](Gmail link [2]) as well. > > > > I'm Abraham Williams, I've been working with the Twitter API and this > group > > since early 2008. I do mostly freelance Drupal and Twitter API > integration > > and personal projects. I love seeing the creative projects developers > build > > or integrate with the API and look forward to meeting many of you at > Chirp. > > > > TwitterOAuth [3] the first PHP library to support OAuth is built and > > maintained by me, and will hopefully see a new release soon. I also built > a > > fun Chrome extension [4] that integrates common friends and followers > into > > Twitter profiles. > > > > The feature I would most like added to the API is a conversation method > to > > get replies to a specific status. > > > > So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do > > you most want to see added? > > > > @Abraham > > > > [1] > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread... > > [2]https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/12680cd0fa59011e > > [3] > https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/npdjhmblakdjfnnajeomfbogo... > > [4]http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=142 > > > > -- > > Abraham Williams | Community Advocate |http://abrah.am > > Project | Out Loud |http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com > > This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. > > Sent from Seattle, WA, United States > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+ > unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE > ME" as the subject. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
