Little close up! You can buy the Coding4Fun book at Amazon and get the source code at www.c4fbook.com.  Thanks O’Reilly Publishing!

I had the chance of a life time on Tuesday and got to be a speaker at PDC 2008 with the Coding4Fun talk.  The session had some amazing presenters and was extremely time boxed due to 4 demos in 40 minutes.  I start at 29:18 and talk about TwitterVote.  Some of the other topics are: WiiEarthVR – Brian Peek InnerTube – Dan Fernandez BabySmash – Scott Hanselman For the full video, head over to Channel9.

I've been working on an application for an upcoming project that uses Twitter.  I've never seen something that everyone loves fail so regularly.  I'm smashing my head since I can't do proper debugging while people are like "Oh twitter, you're down again." and they slap their knee. I like twitter, the idea is decent despite what some people may say.  It gives me a place to rant that isn't my blog which has a very targeted outline.  I get to make statements like "Why do people think it is OK for google to have applications for 4+ yrs in...

Twitter Vote is pretty much done.  Seeing if I should add in a few features or not.  Time to start typing like I actually know English. I know the UI could use some TLC but I'm a developer, not a designer.  Yeah, that is my excuse.

Now to make the User Experience look less like poo.  Make it pretty then write the chapter. The one thing I'm disappointed Twitter could do but doesn't implement properly is the Reply system.  If I reply to a tweet that is 3 down, it will actually log it in their system as the most recent.  BOO-ERNS twitter, boo-erns.  Do some javascript magic there.

I'm uber behind on a project but will show off some stuff I love.  I really, really love Regular Expressions too. New feature in .net 3.5 Poll poll = new Poll { PollName = breakdown[1], UserId = tweet.User.Id, TweetId = tweet.Id, UserName = tweet.User.Name}; And processing the votes public void ProcessParameterList(string parameterList) { PollParameterList = parameterList; // currently supported // 1-10 \d-\d // a,b,c,d comma delimited. // check for 10-20 if(Regex.IsMatch(PollParameterList,...

I had an entire post on this, but after finding out it was a hardware failure, I'm less pissed but still at the same time, very pissed it took 2 days to get me back up and going. This issue prompted me to get going on my move to Applied Innovations.  I'll be posting videos of my move and how I pulled off things like getting the database off the server when I don't have direct access to that server.

I may have an ego problem.  After seeing Rory Blyth's google action a while back, I decided I had to do it too.  Google Clint and see.  My main issue is there are a ton of towns named Clint along with Clint Black (one of many reasons I hate country music) and one of the baddest ass Americans ever, Clint Eastwood.  It only took getting linked in from Channel 9, Scott Hanselman's blog, putting stuff on CodePlex, and Coding4Fun.

Why did I mount the skateboard axles on a lazy susan?  Hopefully HTML will let me explain this.  Imagine a top down view for the skateboard.   When neutral (not turning) the axles look like this: |----|   When turning in (lets say in is toward the top of the screen), the axles turn inward: /----\   When turning outward, the axles pivot the other way: \----/   And the pivoting wasn't a few millimeters, they rotate a inch so a fixed mount wouldn't work.  There may be a better solution out there but this was easy and could...