October 2nd, 2009 by John Girvin
I admit it, I like to Twitter (Tweet). To help me feed this addiction even when I’m away from the computer I’ve been using the 0.9 beta versions of Twibble Mobile, a free J2ME Twitter client that works perfectly well on my Nokia handset so I can Tweet wherever there is a 3G connection.
Just recently Twibble has moved out of beta to a final version 1.0, but in my opinion they’ve handled it badly and risk alienating and losing the users they’ve gained up until now.
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September 10th, 2009 by John Girvin
PRONI, the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland, have launched a searchable archive of Belfast Street Directories dating back as far as 1819.
Street Directories are books containing a listing of the names, addresses and occupations of the inhabitants of Belfast as well as lists of commercial establishments operating in the city, and so are a vital resource for historical and genealogical researchers. Having them easily searchable online is a big step forward.
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September 1st, 2009 by John Girvin
Following a prompt from the man himself, Alex King, I’ve made a small update to my YOURLS plugin for Twitter Tools 2.0 to make the YOURLS API URI configurable from the Wordpress administration interface.
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August 27th, 2009 by John Girvin
The troubles of URL shortening service tr.im continue. First the tr.im service went down, seemingly forever, then it was restored, then just recently it taken offline again due to their network provider thinking they were a spam spreading service. I had been using tr.im up until now to publicise posts from my various blogs on Twitter, but with this latest downtime and the reason for it, I decided it was time I hosted my own URL shortening service.
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August 25th, 2009 by John Girvin
Instil Software are helping to organise a Java DevDays event in Belfast, following the highly successful iPhone DevDays held in April. It’s early days and Instil are currently looking for speakers and topics. If you have any suggestions, be sure to let them know.
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