32Hours

My journey into the software development world.

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Twitter still appears to be having problems with their API. The API is the interface that programmers use to connect to Twitter. My apologies to everyone being frustrated by the issue. I am looking at possible band-aids, but don’t have high hopes. I think we’ll just be waiting this one out. This appears to have [...]

I’ve released another update and added some more features.  I didn’t get everything done that I would have liked, but decided to let everyone benefit from the progress I’d already made. Some new features: A button to show/hide the dashboard area (the controls and text area) Better handling when the gadget is narrow.  That darned [...]

I’m not sure I want to call it version 2, that seems like a big burden to bear; and visually, BeTwittered may not appear much different.  There are several new features, though, like: Newly configurable refresh rates Configurable font sizes New pop-up dialogs (thanks Stan, for jGrowl!) New timelines: your personal archive and the public [...]

BeTwittered has gotten a few changes today.  Most notable are a larger text area to type in your messages, and the counter to let you know when you’ve talked too much; well, really just a counter so you can tell when you are nearing the 140 character tweet limit.  There are also a few behind [...]

I’ve just posted a version of BeTwittered that you can use from your phone or other mobile device. To have a look, please go to http://32hours.com/betwittered, or go directly to the BeTwittered information page. I’m surprised at how quickly the mobile version came together. Of course, the BeTwittered Google homepage gadget is still improving. I’ve [...]

I’ve added some new error checking to keep from displaying ugly messages when the Twitter servers are not responding correctly, and added a logout button.  There are some other changes, some minor cosmetics, and some cleanup that is invisible.  Please, check it out! -> Add it to your iGoogle page

Interesting. I made it to the Google gadget listings. I didn’t get a notification message from Google. Maybe it’s been there as soon as I saved the program to their hosting server? No matter – here’s a link to add my gadget to your iGoogle home page! Amazon Top 10 (tech) iGoogle gadget