That could be said about a lot of technologies with books being published about them ...
∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 6:26 AM, PJB <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What are you going to do when Twitter makes a huge unannounced change > to their API in, say, 3 months and totally alters everything? It has > happened before; it will happen again! This isn't a particularly > mature platform to be writing about, especially with a publication > date 6+ months away! > > On Oct 9, 2:42 pm, Andrew Mager <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am co-authoring a book about the Twitter API, and I was wondering if >> any of you guys wanted to write a chapter. >> >> The book will be in the SAMS 24 hour series, and it's scheduled to be >> released mid-next year. >> >> Here is our tentative table of contents: >> >> Introduction to Twitter >> An overview of Twitter and Microblogging >> Common Types of Twitter Applications >> Key Issues to Consider when Developing Twitter Apps >> Overview of Twitters's API structure >> The API is HTTP-based >> The API uses Representational State Transfer (REST) >> There are pagination limits >> The Twitter API supports UTF-8 encoding >> Getting Started with the API >> Setting up an environment >> Making your first API call >> Parsing the reply >> Message, date, author, image >> Creating a simple display >> Setting up an application framework >> Creating a twitter Class >> Various twitter libraries are available >> PHP Class used in this book >> Modifing our class >> Twitter Error messages >> What each error code means >> Modifing our twitter Class >> Passing credentials to twitter >> Standard method (HTTP) >> Using cookies (create, retrieve, delete) >> OAuth >> Sending and Receiving messages from Twitter >> Creating a basic twitter client >> Sending messages in twitter >> Twitter search >> Dealing with Twitter downtimes and errors >> Twitter Beyond the API >> Future of Twitter >> Example Applications >> Other Mashup Twitter Services >> Twitter Etiquette >> >> Ping me directly if you are interested! [email protected] >
