While redesigning my blog I chose to add more of a lifestream effect to the home page of the site. I also made a conscious effort use as much AJAX with jQuery as I could and was appropriate, both to improve perceived performance and just for fun…
I’ve been trying to convince myself over the last couple of weeks that I should write a blog post, but I truly feel that I have nothing worth sharing that couldn’t be put down in 140 characters or less (referring to Twitter/Facebook, of course). I’m…
I recently upgraded the look of the TwitterRatio site. The charcoal look was okay for starters but I wanted to make it look more Twitter-like, something that I’d noticed that a lot of other Twitter utility sites had been doing. In the process I…
I needed a simple chart control. I briefly thought about the new ASP.NET Chart control , but that is .NET 3.5 and my current code base is still .NET 2.0. I probably could migrate the code to 3.5 painlessly enough, but “if it ain’t broke…”. I have…
In the past month or so I’ve seen lots of comments from people stating something like, “I’m not getting all the tweets from my friends. I end up getting only part of the conversations.” In addition to the recent poor performance from Twitter, I have…
I noticed over the Memorial Day weekend that traffic for TwitterRatio.com picked up quite a bit. I’ve also seen the TFF Ratio auto-responder sending out replies to a lot of newcomers to the TFF party. I’m excited to see the site and bot getting…
I received some good response from my last Best @TFFRatio Requests post , plus a request to do another one soon. I aim to please so here goes (again in no particular order): evolvingWe @ tffratio How do I compare to Gretchen now? 09:23 AM April…
When I enabled the auto reply bot for TFF Ratio on Twitter, people immediately started having fun with it saying things like “@TFFRatio, how much to you love me” and “@TFFRatio - hit me”. Recently, though, a couple of Tweeps (Dan Rigsby…
A few days ago I blogged about adding some cool updates to the TFF Ratio site that included adding a ReTweeter that would reply with your TFF Ratio stats if you used @tffratio in a tweet. I got some comments from friends and colleagues (@ jfollas…
Last weekend I made some updates to the TFF Ratio site to give it a little more “oomph”. One of the things I noticed was that people would go to the TFF Ratio site, get their ratio and then post it on Twitter with something like “Hey my TFF Ratio…
