Archive for April, 2009

Counting Twitter Followers and Friends

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Expanding on the prior post, below is the simple code to display the number of Followers and Friends of any Twitter User. Just pass the User Name to the php file like so:
http://www.nichetrivia.com/followersfriends.php?u=xearther
The browser will then display something like:
23 Followers
8 Friends
You are welcome to use the above URL. Just replace xearther with any Twitter User [...]

You’d Think I Was Back At The Datacenter With Punchcards Waiting For A Job To Run

Monday, April 13th, 2009

I’ve been exploring the Twitter API these past few weeks and the one thing I come away with is irony.
Here’s an API that is very simple and clear. Yet the code I’ve come across dancing with the API has been anything but… simple and clear, that is.
But I’ll stop with the wine and cheese here [...]

Camtasia? What the hell is that?

Friday, April 10th, 2009

I’ve got about 15 minutes before heading for the shower so I won’t be going into any detail here.
I’m creating a new Category: The Bob Posts.
I thought, I’m connecting with and helping people half-way around the world. Why not focus on helping one individual “one degree removed” in my daily “circle”, e.g. my physical neighborhood?
And [...]