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Enough with the punk ass Twitter app development

March 7, 2009

It there is one thing you can say about Twitter it is that it has spawned a hellva community of desktop applications except in most cases for varying reasons they suck llama balls.
Seriously.
If any serious developer creating software for any of the operating system, whether it be Windows, OS X or Linux tried pulling some [...]

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Disqus Has A Public API - Now What?

September 26, 2008

As I was having my morning coffee and reading my feeds I came across the post on Louis Gray’s blog where he passed along the info that Disqus announced the availability of a full public API for their commenting system used by many bloggers.

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WTF Is Wrong With Apple?

September 25, 2008

I know that Steve Ballmer gets a lot of flack for his “Developer, developer, developer” ranting and more than one article has been written about the horrors of coding against the Win32 API but for all that the one thing Microsoft has done is promote the developer. Whether it be giving away Express versions of the developer tools to publishing top notch developer books under its Microsoft Press division the company has done a decent job of supporting Windows developers.

On the flip side of the developer world we have the devoted Apple developers creating cool stuff for the Mac and now the iPhone - or at least trying to because Apple appears to being doing everything it can to make that an extremely difficult proposition.

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It’s Apple’s Playground So Quit The Grumbling

September 14, 2008

This past week saw a little bit of an uproar when Apple decided not to let an application for the iPhone be listed in their iPhone App Store. It wasn’t because of questionable content or some other public service reason either. It was because they said that the application competed against one of Apple’s own [...]

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The Agony of Developing on Someone’s Web API

July 3, 2008

For those of you who are new to WinExtra I also at one time developed a Windows desktop client for Twitter. For a while it did very well and I got a few nice comments made about it which made working on it worthwhile. What didn’t though and was partially the reason that I [...]

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I figured out a use for those FriendFeed Rooms

June 18, 2008

I was just reading a post by Hutch Carpenter where he was talking about the process we all go through during meetings or communications which require us to go from a starting point – Point A – to the end product – Point B. Most of the time the road between those two point [...]

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From the Pipeline - 5.30.08

May 30, 2008

I love it - another day with a topic that has gotten a really good conversation going. It doesn’t get any better than that. Right now though here are a few things that I found of interest floating through the FriendFeed pipeline.
Apple Fans With Too Much Time On Their Hands :: SeanPAune.com - Sean suggests [...]

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From the Pipeline - 5.12.08

May 12, 2008

It never fails - get a really good StumbleUpon spike in traffic going and the server goes tits up. Oh well at least I’ve been moved over to the hosting company’s new clustered server setup that is designed for that sorta thing so it shouldn’t <fingers crossed> happen again. In the meantime here’s a few [...]

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Social media and the desktop developer dilemma

April 17, 2008

As the social media, social networks and aggregators of these services continue their relentless onslaught forward developers of desktop applications are doing an incredible job of trying to provide solid desktop interfaces to all these services. A good example of this is the large community of applications that have sprung up around Twitter and [...]

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Fed up with cleaning up after software

October 13, 2007

Like a lot of people I know I am a software junkie. I love trying out software some of which I use and others that either immediately hit the recycle bin or end up there after realizing I don’t use it anymore.
It never fails though that through this process of feeding my habit my [...]

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