I’m happy to announce the launch of GroupTweet, a service that allows Twitter users to send private messages to specific groups of friends. This is a small project that I threw together to fill a feature-gap in Twitter that always bothered me: why can’t I send status updates to specific groups of followers? GroupTweet allows small groups of people to send updates to each other without those updates appearing on their public time lines. Check it out and let me know if you have any feedback!
Are Web Application Development Frameworks Worthwhile?
March 17, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I just finished writing a blog post for the iNET Interactive blog in which I look at the pros and cons of developing web apps using rapid development programming frameworks such as CakePHP and Ruby on Rails. Check it out and make sure to tell me how wrong I am in the comments!
Amazon Showcase 1.2 – Now With More Template-y Goodness
February 1, 2008 By 5 Comments
UPDATE: I reached a critical number of requests for the ability to create multiple instances of this widget, so I made some quick updates and pushed out version 1.3. Enjoy!
I’ve just wrapped up version 1.2 of the Amazon Showcase WordPress Widget. Besides some minor updates improving performance, this release included a new “Template” option to satisfy a highly requested feature regarding output customization.
User’s now have the ability to define a “templates” for each item displayed. This provides total flexibility over the HTML that is generated and outputted in the widget. There are several pre-defined ‘tags’ that you can use within the templates as placeholders for product information. For example, any instance of the tag ‘[author]‘ in the template will be replaced by the product’s author name when outputted.
Head over to the Amazon Showcase WordPress Widget project page for more information and to download; and of course, feel free to send me any comments or suggestions you have!
