A quick recap from where I left off in Part I: starting with all of the business ability of a dried plum, I developed an unpopular Twitter tool called TweetingMachine; after nine months, I was ready to scrap in its entirety and mark the whole sorry app as a failed experiment; just before I gave [...]
Archive: April 2011
This is the first part (Part II here) in a series of posts about the first web app I wrote for myself, TweetingMachine. I’ll cover every aspect of its creation and development, starting at how the idea came to me, the many, many mistakes I made, and how eventually I improved the tool so much [...]
I’ve created this blog so that I can share some of the tips I’ve learned about creating web apps. It would be very pleasant to make my living solely from my various web apps, but for the time being, they pay the rent. I’m going to start this blog off by writing about a few [...]
This is something that always terrifies me; what if someone at Twitter or Facebook takes a dislike to one of my applications, and cuts it off? One can try hard to stay within the rules, but it doesn’t take much to be relieved of your income.
