[twitter-dev] Re: Better support for Developers
If no programmer can do this with twitter, then the problem is on twitter. But some programmers should can do this. In another hand,it should not twitter's responsibility and goal to teach all programmers all programming skills. So that why there is a page list programmers available to work for companies.
[twitter-dev] Re: Better support for Developers
What I have found is that 99% of the topics on here relate to Oauth... if you have a question about a different aspect of the api it is less likely that you will get a reply. The wiki documentation is fairly good and code examples are given, but if you are trying to do something that is not covered in the wiki there is often limited info available. Similarly if you want to see what api features are planned for the future, and when, it is difficult to find reliable info. I haven't tried contacting twitter tech support, so can't comment on that. On the whole the api is great!!! and the wiki gave me enough info to easily create most features of my app. As Chi-Shun Chen said, it is partly down to your skills as a developer to find solutions to problems and get your app working - on the other hand, better documentation and tutorials and more variety of api features will always make it easier for us...
[twitter-dev] Re: Better support for Developers
Yes I agree. What Twitter has already published is fairly good. However the areas that Twitter won't mention or cover in the documentation is the painful gray area. There are no sufficient of doc to find out how to do certain ways especially on OAuth. On Jul 28, 10:19 am, Sam sammybli...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: What I have found is that 99% of the topics on here relate to Oauth... if you have a question about a different aspect of the api it is less likely that you will get a reply. The wiki documentation is fairly good and code examples are given, but if you are trying to do something that is not covered in the wiki there is often limited info available. Similarly if you want to see what api features are planned for the future, and when, it is difficult to find reliable info. I haven't tried contacting twitter tech support, so can't comment on that. On the whole the api is great!!! and the wiki gave me enough info to easily create most features of my app. As Chi-Shun Chen said, it is partly down to your skills as a developer to find solutions to problems and get your app working - on the other hand, better documentation and tutorials and more variety of api features will always make it easier for us...
[twitter-dev] Re: Better support for Developers
Hi, I have to disagree. I think that the twitter team is doing an awesome job on their support. With the help of the documentation at dev.twitter.com and the people on this mailing list, I was able to write a complete oAuth library for Objective-C in less than 5 hours. Before starting, my oAuth knowledge was Zero. I believe that there are ready-to-use libraries available on dev.twitter.com, and I would consider those example code. Not that you really need them, considering how simple oAuth can be :-) I think that I should also state that I am not a professional programmer - I am a 17 year old kid doing some programming. No insult intended, but if a 17 year old kid can do it, you'd say that it would be easy for a professional. ;-) Tom On Jul 28, 1:04 am, globaljobber gerardn...@exciteinternet.co.uk wrote: Hi, I am not one for rocking the boat.and am sure I'm going to get shot down for this...but I've been working trying to do something what should be simple. Use twitter to upload a photo in C# ASP.NET. However, it's taken me over a week and I'm still not there, and although one of the twitter engineers has been absolutely fantastic in his support, he has said he cannot help me and said I should now go to ask Twitpic for help. My point is this. As a developer, looking to integrate a commercial application into my project (which in fact would be marketing on the commercials behalf), shouldn't the owners of that commercial application (Twiiter/Twitpic) make it as easy as possible for us guys? I can see that this Twitter Development Talk discussion group is packed full of developers having problems integrating Twitter and Twitpic into their apps (especially OAuth). My suggestion is therefore, that these guys (Twitter/Twitpic) spend just a few weeks, and employ a few good people, to provide fully working examples in all major programming languages for us developers to pick up easily and integrate into our own apps. - instead of providing just sub-standard documentation. The benefits would be that their commercial product (Twitter and Twitpic), would grow far quicker and spread much quickly than currently. Just some thoughts. Votes please. Now I'm off to run away and hide :0)
[twitter-dev] Re: Better support for Developers
Just some thoughts. Votes please. That's trivially done with the LinqToTwitter library. Head over to http://linqtotwitter.codeplex.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Better support for Developers
Hi Tom, I do have to agree that the Twitter guy who tried to help me was impressive, I rarely get that level of support and I cannot fault his efforts. I agree OAuth is not difficult, I have implemented Oauth for other apps and have my own libraries also. (Not sure why I'm having problems with Twitpic and Oauth Echo here.) :0) On Jul 27, 7:49 pm, Tom allerleiga...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have to disagree. I think that the twitter team is doing an awesome job on their support. With the help of the documentation at dev.twitter.com and the people on this mailing list, I was able to write a complete oAuth library for Objective-C in less than 5 hours. Before starting, my oAuth knowledge was Zero. I believe that there are ready-to-use libraries available on dev.twitter.com, and I would consider those example code. Not that you really need them, considering how simple oAuth can be :-) I think that I should also state that I am not a professional programmer - I am a 17 year old kid doing some programming. No insult intended, but if a 17 year old kid can do it, you'd say that it would be easy for a professional. ;-) Tom On Jul 28, 1:04 am, globaljobber gerardn...@exciteinternet.co.uk wrote: - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Hi, I am not one for rocking the boat.and am sure I'm going to get shot down for this...but I've been working trying to do something what should be simple. Use twitter to upload a photo in C# ASP.NET. However, it's taken me over a week and I'm still not there, and although one of the twitter engineers has been absolutely fantastic in his support, he has said he cannot help me and said I should now go to ask Twitpic for help. My point is this. As a developer, looking to integrate a commercial application into my project (which in fact would be marketing on the commercials behalf), shouldn't the owners of that commercial application (Twiiter/Twitpic) make it as easy as possible for us guys? I can see that this Twitter Development Talk discussion group is packed full of developers having problems integrating Twitter and Twitpic into their apps (especially OAuth). My suggestion is therefore, that these guys (Twitter/Twitpic) spend just a few weeks, and employ a few good people, to provide fully working examples in all major programming languages for us developers to pick up easily and integrate into our own apps. - instead of providing just sub-standard documentation. The benefits would be that their commercial product (Twitter and Twitpic), would grow far quicker and spread much quickly than currently. Just some thoughts. Votes please. Now I'm off to run away and hide :0)
[twitter-dev] Re: Better support for Developers
Hi IDisposable, I haven't looked at linqtotwitter yet, but will pop over and take a look. Thanks for the link. :0) On Jul 27, 8:20 pm, @IDisposable idisposa...@gmail.com wrote: Just some thoughts. Votes please. That's trivially done with the LinqToTwitter library. Head over tohttp://linqtotwitter.codeplex.com
