Finally! I have been busy checking out all kinds of things and I finally spent that other hour to finish one mingeling feature in groovytweets: Link tracking and ranking.
It is a notable feature, as the newsworthyness of tweets really lies in the links that people tweet. For groovytweets, of course, these are just the links [...]
groovytweets update 11
groovytweets update 10
It’s more than 2 months ago since I blogged about the groovytweets status, but there have been numerous minor updates and improvements. The friends list (the Twitter users we collect tweets from) has been expanded to ~422 followers (and likely more when you read this), the regular expressions used to decide if a tweet is [...]
groovytweets update 9
Groovytweets v59 just went live and comes with a new feature: the ability to see who actually retweeted a tweet. So far I did a simple count but then did not persiste the ‘retweet tweets’. Since about one day I am adding retweets as child entities to the original tweet. And just a few minutes [...]
groovytweets update 8
Another feature that was blocking me from working on other things is finally out the door on groovytweets: OAuth support. It’s a big one, at least for me. Supporting OAuth in combination with Twitter means that you can now ‘Sign in with Twitter’ and once you have done this, just press the green retweet links [...]
groovytweets update 7
A couple of noteworthy updates just went live as preview of groovytweets. Keep in mind that www.groovytweets.org might still show an older version without these features, click the preview link to see the new stuff.
So what has changed?
The user infoboxes (hover over the twitter user icons) have been refactored and this feature has been expanded [...]
groovytweets update 6
Another feature of groovytweets just went live in version v38. If you move your mouse over the twitter user icon of a twitter message, you will now see a popup with some key user information like follower/friends count, location, web and bio. You can also start following that user by clicking on the large green [...]
groovytweets update 5
It’s again getting really late (early) so I am trying to keep this one short. Just today, two new cool features were added to groovytweets:
retweet from within groovytweets. You will have noticed the funky green retweet buttons below the twitter user screen names. Clicking these buttons will bring you directly to a twitter update status [...]
groovytweets update 4
I quickly wanted to shout out the latest features of groovytweets that were implemented that last couple of days:
RSS/ATOM feeds via Google’s Feedburner (I just realize I am using 100% Google services: Hosting, Feed Hosting, Ads…). There are two feeds available: a feed with all the latest tweets and one only with the important tweets. [...]
groovytweets update 3
Here’s another update from groovytweets.
As you may know, the ‘important view‘ is now done. It works quite nicely (it shows the groovy tweets that were at least retweeted once, based on users groovytweets is following). Unfortunately the technical implementation is a bit crazy. I first wanted to get a list of Tweets where tweet.importance > [...]
groovytweets.org update 2
I just polished the look and feel of the site and created a basic layout for groovytweets.org. Also, there was a bug related to @username replies where the @ would no longer show up which is fixed now. In addition to linking @usernames from tweets, #hashtags are now linked directly to twitter search for that [...]
groovytweets.org update
Since I announced groovytweets.org yesterday on the Groovy and Grails Mailing lists, I have received a lot of great feedback and great ideas to improve the service. I just finished a couple of updates, but let me first explain the idea behind groovytweets.org.
Glen and me run the bi-weekly Grails Podcast. To prepare the podcast, we [...]
The perfect JavaOne(tm) Scripting Schedule v0.1
The perfect JavaOne(tm) Scripting Schedule v0.1, originally uploaded by hansamann.
I finally found time to look closer at this years JavaOne(tm) sessions. Of course I had my special scripting hat on and created a scripting-optimized schedule. Groovy (including our own grailspodcast.com BOF), Scala, Ruby/JRuby are all in.
While there is no dedicated Grails session, there is [...]
YouTube HD
Soon after I discovered vimeo.com, I checked YouTube for the latest news. And as it happens, they activated HD uploads just a few days ago. The annoying 10 minute limit is stil there, but files can be up to 1GB large. Not perfect, but vimeo just gives you 500 MB per week and only one [...]
Vimeo for HD videos
Just discovered vimeo.com and it totally rocks. You get 500MB of upload space a week (!) and one HD upload per week. I created a small screencast in HD format to test the quality and it is truely amazing. I previously experimented with youtube for screencasting, but the quality is way too low. Also the [...]
My first post from Yahoo! Mail
I am just using the new WordPress application from within Yahoo Mail (beta). What is the benefit using WordPress from within Y!Mail, why not go directly to WordPress? Well, looks like I come across my Yahoo! Mail many times a day while I constantly forget to sign in at WordPress. So I might be reminded [...]
The next step: all kids in preschool
Beginning next month, we’ll have 3 kids in a US preschool (or jr. preschool) in the US. It means everybody in our family will soon be +2yrs and we progress to the next step. It also means we have a bit more time whenever the kids are gone, plus we have at least the good [...]
Winter in California
If you do not live in California, you might have noticed it really got cold outside. California was colder, too, the last couple of days, but again today temperatures were in the 20C area and we were able to have lunch outside.
It is still too cold, as winter is a relative thing. If you are [...]
