Hahlo Blog

Merry Christmas, Hahlo 4.1 is my gift to you

Dean — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:42:13 +0000

I figured now was as good a time as any to push out the 4.1 update, even if I didn’t manage to get everything into it that I had originally hoped. The end of the year snuck up on me – I should have been paying more attention to that. I’ll add in the ‘missing’ [...]

Happy MediaTemple day (for yesterday)

Dean — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:36:55 +0000

Slipped my mind yesterday, was thinking about other things, but yesterday it was one year since the MediaTemple guys jumped in to help me out and help keep Hahlo alive and kicking after the ‘other’ host cut me off. MT were really helpful in getting things setup and moved across and since then its been pretty [...]

Who’s a pretty birdy

Dean — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:21:36 +0000

Just like Hahlo 4.1 he’s not quite finished, but I thought I’d show him off anyway. I’ve managed to go two and half years without creating a bird mascot/icon for Hahlo, and I had one planned for the release of v4, but just couldn’t get it to a point where I was happy with it. [...]

Early 4.1 mockups with lists!

Dean — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:52:30 +0000

Unless you’ve been living under a rock you should now be aware that Twitter has introduced lists, and most people seem to have access to them now. But, I hear you ask, when are they going to be available in Hahlo. Well, in 4.1 they will be, but there are a few other things that [...]

Nominate Hahlo in the 2009 Open Web Awards

Dean — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:16:08 +0000

It would be totally awesome if you could all nominate Hahlo in one (or both) of these two categories for Mashable’s 2009 Open Web Awards. Best Twitter app Best mobile based twitter app

Lists, ReTweets and GeoLocation

Dean — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:47:53 +0000

Just prior to Hahlo4 launching Twitter announced that they would be adding a new ReTweet API, as well as the ability to geo tag tweets. And this week they’ve announced that they’ll be adding “lists”, a concept which other twitter apps have implemented, usually calling the feature ‘groups’. I had started adding something similar to [...]

What happens if you can’t use OAuth?

Dean — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:24:40 +0000

Something I’ll admit didn’t even cross my mind until it was brought up by a beta tester about a month ago is that those who had been using Hahlo because twitter.com was blocked for one reason or another, now can’t really use Hahlo4 because it uses OAuth. And OAuth requires you to login at twitter.com, [...]

The Hahlo4 menu

Dean — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:21:33 +0000

Probably one of the most important parts of Hahlo is the menu, without it you can’t get to many of the great features. For Hahlo4 the menu has changed a little from that in the previous version, but I’ve tried to keep the concept behind it the same. I had a great comment from Dan [...]

August comes to an end

Dean — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:10:59 +0000

Not long to go now until Hahlo4 goes live, mostly thanks to a super productive August. In the past month I’ve managed to get a mountain of work done towards ‘completing’ 4.0. Some stats: 3 weeks leave. (inc. 1 week spent bed ridden with vertigo) 24 commits. Approx 300 code changes. (see graph below) 10 tickets closed… doesn’t accurately [...]

Good progress despite ‘issues’

Dean — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:32:21 +0000

On Wednesday night I wrote down a list of 5 key things that I wanted to add/fix/change before launch. They were: “Fix” the friend/follower lists – allow you to follow/unfollow directly from the list, and to block a user if desired. Blocking users – I’ve had the code written for weeks, it just wasn’t hooked up to [...]