Archive for category News
Image for Retweet or Share with Twitter Button
Posted by Tim Hastings in News on July 17, 2009
After adding the “Share with Twitter” feature to TagWalk, I was not happy with the buttons available so I have modified the Twitter OAuth button. Please feel free to use it if you would like:
User Profiles Now Showing
Posted by Tim Hastings in News on July 17, 2009
After some recent work to TagWalk the site now shows user profiles. A local copy of the profiles are kept in the database and cached in memcache so page rendering is as fast as possible. Profiles are refreshed if a user posts or is mentioned in the tweets proceeds by the tweet processors and the [...]
Twitter Statistics Now Showing on TagWalk
Posted by Tim Hastings in News on June 15, 2009
This evening I have mostly been doing front end work on TagWalk, exposing the behind-the-scenes computed numbers. These numbers very useful, but previous attempts to display them had looked ugly. I took some inspiration from the way that Twitter displays their follower count information, and I am very pleased with the result. TagWalk breaks tweets [...]
PHP Problem, Failed to Open Stream – File Too Large
Posted by Tim Hastings in News on May 19, 2009
Tonight I am going to be modifying TagWalk to workaround a 32-bit file handling limitation in PHP. The fopen function creates an internal data structure to keep track of the file and the current read position. On a 32-bit platform, the default PHP build uses a signed integer as the file cursor so this gives [...]
TagWalk first demo
Posted by Tim Hastings in News on April 23, 2009
Hello. My name is Tim Hastings (@timhastings), and welcome to the TagWalk blog. A blog intended to chronicle the developments of http://tagwalk.com/ TagWalk has been a side project of mine which I started around February 2009. On Monday night (20th April), I demonstrated progress-so-far to a small and friendly crowd at Geekup Preston. It was [...]