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Posted in Uncategorized, development on Nov 23rd, 2008
After spending quite a few hours on yesterdays post, OAuth and OMB post-sharing, it occurred to me with the first cup of coffee this morning that I had missed one important user interface twist in the use of OAuth that actually makes it quite necessary.
It depends on how the UI for subscribing works. If, as [...]
Posted in development on Oct 17th, 2008
I just got through watching this video of Jason Fried that was recorded earlier this week in Boston. It’s the long-form, illustrated-with-slides version of the extemporaneous talk he did for RI Nexus this past Wednesday in Providence. I highly recommend this to anyone involved in software development.
Listening to his list of specific dos and don’ts [...]
Posted in development on Oct 16th, 2008
Many thanks go out to Jack Templin and RINexus for bringing Jason Fried, founder of 37Signals to Providence last night. Jason spoke on many aspects of his success and what got him there, and answered a lot of questions, even mine!
What really impressed me about Jason’s story was that he became a success doing things [...]
Posted in development on Jun 27th, 2008
This Sunday, June 29, 2008, I will be attending DevHouseBoston. I’ve proposed a project called Distributed Microblogging. My primary goal for the day is to get a UI defined. If we can prototype something, so much the better, but I think the discussions going on in the online community really need to have some attention [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, development on May 6th, 2008
If you don’t read all of this admittedly long post, please do skip to the end and check out the BarCampBoston info. I’ll be holding a session there on the topic of Distributed Microblogging.
Ok, so let’s talk about the hard bits of doing Distributed Microblogging. It’s easy to envision a multitude of servers exchanging microblog [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, development on May 3rd, 2008
I want to quickly set down a high-altitude view of how I see a Distributed Twitter working. This should give you the basic concept, which I’ll then elaborate in more detail in subsequent posts.
First of all, let’s call it something more generic. I like Distributed MicroBlogging or DMB. The “Distributed” part is really the key. [...]
Posted in development on Apr 20th, 2008
One of the things that drives everyone nuts about Twitter is its unreliability. In fact, it’s having a little case of the no-updates this morning (2008.04.20). This is a less frequently discussed but ultimately, I think, more important disadvantage to walled gardens. If you rely on a service and it goes down for maintenance or [...]