It’s been well-over a year since I hacked the the first few lines of code for Trowel, the open source, Perl solution to your Twitter and Growl needs.
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Archive for the ‘open source’ Category
Displaying Twitter messages using Growl
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009Stackoverflow iPhone App — solving non-existant problems
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009This weekend I decided to solve a problem that only existed in my head, namely that of no official (or unofficial) Stackoverflow iPhone App.
There have been some questions raised about the possibilities of an API to allow such an App but, alas no noticeable development effort.
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UK Local News Aggregator – The Skinny
Friday, March 6th, 2009Ever since we set up The Matters Network, we’ve been trying to find new ways to bring local content to out thousands of users. So at the end of 2008 we set up the Matters News Network, the aim was to distill the gigabytes of local data we produce each day and distribute it in the most convenient way (for us and our users).
Future Twitter Syntax
Monday, February 9th, 2009As part of my Prior Art project I am publishing these Twitter syntax ideas I would like to see implemented.
We all know the standard Twitter syntax elements (#, @, d), these are documented below. Please leave comments and your own ideas (and correct my mistakes).
Twitter + Growl = Trowel v1.0
Monday, January 26th, 2009You may have already read my how-to on integrating Twitter and Growl but this is the upgrade! I will go through the code for those interested, please help me improve the code by leaving a comment, good or bad.
2009 the Year of the API
Monday, December 29th, 2008There are going to be a lot of out of work developers in 2009, all these idle man-months could be put to good use if companies opened up a little. Some of these developments could help drive the economy out of the downturn. (more…)
Wedding Technology – Geek-up your special day!
Saturday, December 20th, 2008I originally posted this to Slashdot, but they for some reason refused to approve it, so in desperation I’m opening git up to my loyal band of blog readers, please leave you ideas, suggestions and rants in the comments.
Next summer my sister is getting married. As the geeky single older brother I have been charged with IT for the day. My sister would like all guests to be able to download pictures form there digital cameras quickly and easily to a laptop or similar. She will then have a vast collection of images instantly.
OpenStartUp – the open source start up
Sunday, November 16th, 2008Blank sheet for ideas. Name? Mission? Products? Logo?
Add your suggestions to the comments.