Archive for May, 2009

Tracking php|tek Tweets With Twitterslurp

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

For a client at work a few months ago, I created a Twitter search tool, Twitterslurp, that put all the tweets related to the client’s project on their webpage, updated in (close to) real-time via AJAX.

I’ve since added a lot of features, including a set of graphs, and we’ve set up a version of Twitterslurp for php|tek 2009.
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Pickens Plan Scaling Talk Slides Are Available

Friday, May 15th, 2009

On Wednesday night, I gave a talk at the DC PHP developer’s group regarding how The Bivings Group scaled the Pickens Plan website after it stopped working following a national advertising campaign after the first 2008 presidential debate drew thousands of people to the website.

The slides are now available for download.

Also, I want to thank everyone who showed up. It was great talking to all of you!