My father IM’d me this afternoon because he wanted to comment on my article about Digg vs Mixx. Apparently no one could register and no one could comment on my blog as a result. I had initially turned it all off so that I didn’t have to deal with spammers and the like but I had forgotten to turn it all back on once I had some countermeasures in place. Oops.
I decided to start writing a little series of articles based on the lessons I’ve learned in writing code the uses twitter, using twitter itself, and just generally getting the most out of it. This is the first one, and maybe there will be more depending on how I like it.
The Problem – Why You Should Care
Other sites that you pull content from are not always going to be reliable. They could be down, running slow, or some other possible problem. If you are using something like twitter to display your status on your site but you have a lot of other content you want people to see then it would be wise to use client-side scripting to get the content. You might be saying in your head “Oh but I have this sweet PHP script that does that for me.” but you should tell that voice in your head to shut up and just listen.
