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Month June 2008

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-12

At Blues On The Green at Zilker park. It certainly is a beautiful night in Austin, TX. # following @statesman to get the inside scoop from the newsroom operations. # @marlaerwin only 3 Supreme Court Chief Justices were Associate Justices first. It’s actually a rarity. # @marlaerwin I remember being upset when Roberts was nominated [...]

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-11

listening to Mark Phillip give a presentation on speeding up your site at the Refresh Austin mtg. Response codes and http headers FTW. # “What’s the timestamp on a PHP file?” “who knows? it’s almost existential!” # @crit congrats on being able to take the bus in to work. Use the extra time to check [...]

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-10

listening to @omarg on NPR’s segment on the iPhone 2.0 – http://tinyurl.com/5px7rk # viewing photos of the fire damage at the Texas Governor’s Mansion. Very sad. http://tinyurl.com/4ncoto # @Baldman: I can’t speak to @bryanrobison’s experience, but I wish very much that I could be a Grande customer again. They’re not in 78704. # looking forward [...]

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-09

Twitter’s strategy to avoid downtime during tomorrow’s wwdc: refresh your browser over at Summize: http://tinyurl.com/5m5b7z # @jowyang she indicated she would throw her full weight behind Obama’s candidacy & asked supporters to do the same http://tinyurl.com/6jbp7w # My puppy betrayed me (http://twitter.com/atxryan/statuses/829323907 ) and left a small surprise in an Account Manager’s cube. :-/ # [...]

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-08

at the office watching Blue Lapis Light rehearse for their aerial dance performance tonight http://bluelapislight.org/constellation2008.html # @alexcc yeah, we can see most of it… but the show doesn’t begin ’til 9pm. :-/ # Signing up for mobile testing http://tinyurl.com/679xwe – crowdsourcing FTW? # settling in at Bouldin Creek Cafe for breakfast and project work w/ [...]

Twitter’s WWDC 2008 uptime strategy

It appears that part of Twitter’s strategy to mitigate downtime during WWDC 2008 this year is to push tracking, and therefore traffic and constant refreshing, of the event over to third-party search service, Summize. I’ve noticed before that Summize will often not return the most recent tweets associated with a search. So, it may be [...]

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-07

had a very invigorating swim this morning at Barton Springs pool. Now going to do some research and prototyping of a mobile app. A good day! # I brought the puppy in to the office today while I work. He’s napping now. Later, he and I are gonna go for beers at the Gingerman. # [...]

Crowdsourced Mobile Application Testing

In the course of researching mobile web application prototyping and testing, I came across Mob4Hire, a new service that aims to help mobile application developer with reliable testers through crowdsourcing. I went ahead and signed up. I look forward to testing out my first mobile application and checking out Mob4Hire at the same time. With [...]

Extreme Sand Sculpting

Ran across this blog post via @juliegomoll: Dark Roasted Blend: Extreme Sand Sculpting. You’ve got to check out these sand sculptures!

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-06

I knew if felt to good to be true… still at the office working to put out fires and get this web application out the door! # @jowyang rtwt: @marlaerwin GOP/Dem VPs since 1980 announced less than 1 wk before convention, except for Edwards in 2004 # Swimming at Barton Springs pool. didn’t know they [...]