Hello Twitter Development Community, My name is Taylor Singletary (@episod on Twitter) and I'm Twitter's first developer advocate. I'm all about making the developer experience here awesome.
I'm still learning and will always be learning. Learning is fun. A little about my history: I worked at LinkedIn for the past two and half years in a few different roles: a software engineer on the Light Engineering team, technical evangelist for LinkedIn's API programs (partnerships, open API program, OpenSocial-based application platform), as well as a product manager for their InApps platform and the two Twitter-based on-site applications Company Buzz and Tweets. A little about my areas of expertise: REST-based APIs. OAuth Ruby Ruby on Rails Perl PHP Javascript OpenSocial Some Java (I read much better than I write!) If you want to get an idea of how I like to teach things, take a look at some of my presentations on SlideShare: http://bit.ly/9K3Ans -- I think learning should be fun! I know a lot of developers have problems wrapping their heads around OAuth, or dealing with the often sorry state of client libraries out there. It's a fact of life that sometimes you need to get your hands dirty and really understand OAuth top to bottom to debug issues. I've come to love OAuth and I think you should too. OAuth libraries are frequently built with single use cases in mind, ignoring parts of the specification that didn't seem relevant at the time. We as a community need to do a better in making the OAuth library ecosystem a better one. ....Hold me closer, OAuth Dancer.... http://bit.ly/oauth-dancer Today I open sourced a Ruby on Rails tool that helps you debug and test OAuth 1.0a-based service providers. It's called the OAuth Dancer and you can get it from github at http://bit.ly/oauth-dancer -- this tool has many uses and I plan to keep it up to date with new features for awhile; it's nowhere near feature complete yet. I hope it helps ease the burden of developing with OAuth, offering you working "golden examples" that you can use in tandem with whatever implementation you're working on. I'm still ramping up here at Twitter, and it'll take some time before you'll see me here on the mailing list frequently. I'm watching and listening. We're in this together. And we're going to make it awesome together. Thanks, Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate Twitter http://www.twitter.com/episod On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Arnaud Meunier < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello folks, > > My name is Arnaud Meunier and I'm a Paris-based Twitter Developer & > Web Entrepreneur. I built http://twitoaster.com a real-time (thanks to > the streaming API) conversation threading service / client helping > people and businesses to improve and optimize the way they communicate > with their Twitter followers. > > I signed up for Chirp, and I hope to meet many of you there! > > All the best, > Arnaud. > > > On Feb 19, 9:20 pm, Abraham Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > > We have not had an introductions thread in a long time (or ever that I > could > > find) so I'm starting one. Don't forget to add an answer to the tools > thread > > [1](Gmail link [2]) as well. > > > > I'm Abraham Williams, I've been working with the Twitter API and this > group > > since early 2008. I do mostly freelance Drupal and Twitter API > integration > > and personal projects. I love seeing the creative projects developers > build > > or integrate with the API and look forward to meeting many of you at > Chirp. > > > > TwitterOAuth [3] the first PHP library to support OAuth is built and > > maintained by me, and will hopefully see a new release soon. I also built > a > > fun Chrome extension [4] that integrates common friends and followers > into > > Twitter profiles. > > > > The feature I would most like added to the API is a conversation method > to > > get replies to a specific status. > > > > So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do > > you most want to see added? > > > > @Abraham > > > > [1] > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread... > > [2]https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/12680cd0fa59011e > > [3] > https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/npdjhmblakdjfnnajeomfbogo... > > [4]http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=142 > > > > -- > > Abraham Williams | Community Advocate |http://abrah.am > > Project | Out Loud |http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com > > This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. > > Sent from Seattle, WA, United States >
