Programming

Twitter API Limiting will Lead to Revenue Model

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The twitterati and some Twitter App Makers have been up in arms regarding twitters recent API changes that will mean a 20,000 limit will be placed on whitelisted apps.
I think the 20,000 number is irrelevant, because of the [...]

21Jan2009 | Nick Halstead | 11 comments | Continued

Make It Scale

Last week I was invited along to speak at the Make IT Scale conference. It covered a wide range of scaling issues mainly very technical. I come from a Games Industry background and I wanted to get across how performance is critical and that everything should be done to get speed before you think about [...]

3Dec2008 | admin | 3 comments | Continued

Zend Framework powers fav.or.it

Today we finally launched fav.or.it. For those who have not been following our exploits for long we have been developing using Zend Framework on PHP, in fact we started using it at around version 0.6 and have worked through the problems as it has grown and evolved.
We have had our issues with performance as [...]

17Jun2008 | Nick Halstead | 54 comments | Continued

Future Technical Post

We have decided to build a nice new blog system over at fav.or.it based upon wordpress (of course) that allows for all our employees to start blogging (some already have personal blogs) - and also to better categorize the content that we are writing. This means that I will start writing my technical content over [...]

26May2008 | Nick Halstead | 13 comments | Continued

How to be a better programmer - Part 1

I thought I would re-start my blogging (apologies for the major lapse!) endeavors by covering how to become a better programmer. This will be split into a number of parts as there is a lot to cover! The first part is me feelings about ‘How to be open’ - this covers a range of things [...]

29Apr2008 | Nick Halstead | 20 comments | Continued

Tweetmeme - building stuff fast in PHP

I launched a little project today - tweetmeme it is written in PHP (of course!). What is it? It tracks the public timeline from twitter and picks up any links that get posted. It then follows each link to find final destination and then categorizes the content into blogs / video / images / audio.
This [...]

28Jan2008 | Nick Halstead | 12 comments | Continued
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