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Updates, announcements, great apps, and more from the @twitterapi team.

Develop Twitter API application in django and deploy on Google App Engine

Twitter’s robust REST API enables building of good applications that leverage its increasingly large and real-time data.

Google’s cloud system App Engine not only provides a scalable platform for deploying applications, but also proves to be economically viable because of its pay per resource usage model and a large free quota.

How to Get Started with the Twitter API

Thanks to some very nice open source libraries for quite a few programming languages, interacting with the Twitter API has become exceedingly simple. In this article we’ll be looking at different ways to pull in data from Twitter.

The libraries page of Twitter’s API wiki is a good place to start. For these examples I’m going to use the php-twitter class, but I’ll include the requests and responses so this doesn’t turn out to be all PHP. After all, the API itself doesn’t care which language I’m using.

The php-twitter zip archive contains some nested folders and finally a file: class.twitter.php. You’ll eventually get to it, so keep opening those folders!

Super simple way to work with Twitter API (PHP + CSS)

In this post I want to illustrate a super simple way to work with Twitter API and PHP. In particular, this tutorial explains how to get public updates from Twitter public timeline and display them in a web page with a custom style using CSS. In order to get Twitter updates I used Twitterlibphp (a PHP implementation of the Twitter API) that allows you to take advantage of it from within your PHP applications.

50 Twitter Tools and Tutorials For Designers and Developers

Twitter appears on innumerable personal and professional websites nowadays, whether it is a simple “Follow me” badge in the header or a display of the author’s latest tweets in the sidebar. No longer a fad, Twitter is now a necessity for every website, not just for sharing your thoughts and keeping in touch with people, but also for marketing, advertising and even searching. But you may be wondering, How can I make Twitter work the way I want on my website?

Below, we present Twitter Web Designer and Developer Toolbox, API and Tutorials, a series of tutorials, links, references, libraries and plug-ins that will help you do everything you’ve always wanted to do with Twitter.

11 Useful Free APIs for Developing Twitter Apps

Use the Twitter and TinyURL APIs to Create a WordPress Plugin

After the success of the release of our first WordPress plugin, Are You Sure?, we've decided to show you how to make a super simple WordPress plugin that uses the TinyURL and Twitter API. The plugin we will create will add a little link to the end of each individual post, this link will allow the users to send the title of the page they are reading, along with a tinyurl link to the page. Lets get coding!

Links for The Day

Rob — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:07:00 +0000

50 Creative and Inspiring 404 Pages

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CometChat is the first integrated inline chat script which works straight from your website. Think Facebook Chat

Speed Up Your Website with Better Image Optimization in Photoshop

Create a Twitter-Like “Load More” Widget

Making a Content Slider with jQuery UI – Me Likey!

ColdFusion Coming Back???

The Importance Of Wireframes In Web Design And 9 Tools To Create Wireframes

Links for the day

Rob — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:54:42 +0000

Don’t Be Stupid - Typographic Poster for Download

25 Must-Read Blogs for Freelance Designers

10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To

[PDF] 25-point Website Usability Checklist

35+ Horizontal Websites for Your Design Inspiration

Website Analytics Toolbox

15 jQuery Plugins To Create A User Friendly Tooltip

35 Absolutely Useful Firefox Plugins For Web Designers And Developers

15 Extremely Useful CSS Grid Layout Generator For Web Designers

27 Must-Have Starter Kits For Web Designers

Reinventing the Color Picker

http://www.1kbgrid.com/

Usability testing userfly.com

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Logo inspiration gallery

WordPress Theme Frameworks – A Comprehensive Overview

Links for the day

Rob — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:31:26 +0000

Firediff is a Firebug extension that tracks changes to a pages DOM and CSS.

Tiny JS is an online directory of small but powerful plugins for popular JavaScript/Ajax libraries

PHP: Display Adobe PSD files on a web page

Learning Advanced JavaScript

Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.

25 Free Must Download Design Programs

45+ Essential WordPress Plugins for Pro Blogging

A jQuery Plugin for Zoomable, Interactive Maps

43 Must Read PHP Articles and Resources

ui-patterns.com - design patterns

Sexy Drop Down Menu w/ jQuery & CSS

50 Inspiring Examples of Minimalism in Web Design

Links for the day

Rob — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:17:43 +0000

jQuery Infinite Carousel

A jQuery inline form validation, because validation is a mess

Smart Columns w/ CSS & jQuery

Real-Life Twitter Business Success Stories

10 Easy ways to fix common WordPress headaches

How important are web standards?

More Stencil Fun For Designers

UI Stencil Kit for iPhone App Designers

The UX Booth is a group that writes about User Experience and offers free Website Usability Reviews that all designers and developers can benefit from.

40+ Helpful Resources On User Interface Design Patterns