<p>If anyone is interested, I have recently posted a couple of articles about creating a desktop Java application for Twitter using the NetBeans open-source IDE. They are tutorial-flavored articles and make heavy use of the new <strong>Twitter RESTful SaaS</strong> gizmo in NetBeans. The project is called "Canary" (too cute I know, tweet tweet). You can find the Canary articles at the following links:</p> <ul> <li><a href='http://hulles.supersized.org/archives/15-The-Canary- Project.html'>The Canary Project</a></li> <li><a href='http://hulles.supersized.org/archives/16-Canary-II- Feather-Straightening-and-Cage-Gilding.html'>Canary II: Feather- Straightening and Cage Gilding</a></li> <li><a href='http://hulles.supersized.org/archives/17-Canary-III-Its- Not-A-Turkey-Yet.html'>Canary III: It's Not A Turkey Yet</a></li> </ul> <p>Links to the Java source code and a runnable jar file are included at the end of each article. I have also recently created a Google Code project for Canary at <a href='http://code.google.com/p/ canary/'>http://code.google.com/p/canary/</a>. If you're interested in participating please let me know. I intend to update the code for NetBeans 6.5 Any Day Now.</p> <p>And speaking of NetBeans 6.5 and the Twitter RESTful SaaS gizmo, I recently posted a <a href='http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi? id=155882'>bug report</a> to NetBeans about their gizmo breaking when it gets "nilclasses" back from Twitter in NetBeans 6.5. The problem doesn't seem to have exactly sunk in for them yet, but you can find an article and a workaround for it in a post called, appropriately, <a href='http://hulles.supersized.org/archives/21-NB-6.5-Twitter-SaaS- Bug.html'>NB 6.5 Twitter SaaS Bug</a></p> <p>Hopefully this message editor supports HTML markup, otherwise there'll be a lot of garbage in this post! - Hulles</p>
