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)
