techZING! 17 – Charge Early, Release Often

By JustinPublished: October 12, 2009 at 11:47 AMTags: LocalBacon, TC50, TweetMiner

Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s TweetMiner project and
Jason’s experience building the local bacon website. They also talk
about Jason’s experience participating in this year’s TechCrunch 50
competition.

6 Comments

Tim says:
Posted October 12, 2009 at 12:14 PM

Which software where you originally using to build TweetMiner? You said something about using PHP to create it.
Justin says:
Posted October 12, 2009 at 12:40 PM

TweetMiner has always been built in PHP & JavaScript (big dollops of jQuery). But in the beginning rather than deploy it via a web-server I was using a tool that allows you to create windows based desktop apps in PHP – ZZEE PHPExe – http://www.zzee.com/phpexe/
Andrew Davey says:
Posted October 12, 2009 at 4:17 PM

Could you use Twitter’s JSONP api calls to offload the twitter calls to the client side?
Something like http://jquery-howto.blogspot.com/2009/04/twitter-jsonjsonp-api-url.html
Justin says:
Posted October 12, 2009 at 6:29 PM

TweetMiner PHP does use those URL’s. There may be some possibility to just use them directly from the .js. Would need to look into how to tie it all together with oAuth etc.
Andrew Davey says:
Posted October 13, 2009 at 5:41 AM

@Justin
The OAuth stuff could be tricky. It does look like there is a JavaScript implementation however http://code.google.com/p/oauth/source/browse/#svn/code/javascript