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• 3.22.07 Twitter to Blog and Back posted in Web Design, Geekery

  I had been working on a Twitter interface for the blog that would allow me to do a little micro blogging, but was having trouble getting it to play nice with wp-cache and when it did, it didn’t even show up half the time. So, after hours of frustration I discovered a plugin under development by Alex King called Twitter Tools for Wordpress. It’s in beta, but I have no complaints so far.

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• 3.20.07 Ubergeekcoolness posted in Geekery, Circle Six Happenings

  So our landlord has consented to let us put a touchscreen in the wall outside of the main entrance to our newly expanded office, allowing us to have a message board for our clients and visitors who come while our limited staff is out to meetings or working out of the office. I want it to have a snazzy interface that shows, in Twitter style, where each employee is in general terms, what they’re doing and if and when they’ll be back. I want it to be easy to update and accept texts from mobile phones, so I may actually interface with Twitter. I also want it to be able to accept messages from people using an onscreen keyboard. Now I just have to find the time to make the interface…

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• 2.21.07 Twitter.xml posted in Geekery

  I revamped the Twitter sidebar using PHP and XML so that it doesn’t hang when loading. It had been using an external javascript and when Twitter was slow, well, the front page of the blog didn’t even finish loading. So now it’s speedier and I can still pretend that everybody cares what I’m doing every 15 minutes ;-). Addendum: I swear it was working a minute ago. I think WP-Cache is messing with my code.

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• 2.19.07 Quicksilver, Twitter, and Wordcount posted in Geekery

  This is a quick hack of the Tweet script by Coda Hale. It adds a quick call to the Unix command wc (wordcount) that checks to make sure your text is under 140 characters before posting to Twitter. It requires Growl for OSX. This version also uses the Twitterrific icon for visual pleasantry, so I highly recommend installing it (it’s a great little program), otherwise removing the single reference to the program in the script. Download: tweet.scpt.zip

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• 2.18.07 Twitter and TextMate posted in Geekery

  Here’s a quick little command to post selected text from TextMate to twitter. Unzip and double click the command to add it to TextMate, and then edit the email and password at the top of the command in the Bundle Editor, using your Twitter account settings. Then just highlight your text (140 characters or less) and press ⌃-⌘-⌥-7. It will give you tooltip feedback to let you know what happened.

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• 2.17.07 The Twitter Bandwagon posted in Web Design, Geekery, Circle Six Happenings

  You may notice a new addition to the sidebar of the front page of this blog. I’ve jumped on the Twitter bandwagon, however temporarily. It’s all a matter of my attention span, which is notoriously short. I rewrote the default badge to display something a little more in keeping with this blog (and heaven forbid I use the Flash version). It will show the last 3 updates I’ve made to twitter, which I’ve set up to work from my phone, IM, a widget and Twitterpost. That should make it easy enough that I’ll at least do it for a while. If nothing else, it will at least prove that I have no life beyond my work and geekery.

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