The Elegant Chaos Blog

September 25, 2013

Ambientweet 1.2 is out!

Strictly speaking I’m treating Ambientweet as in “maintenance mode” now, as it’s not really being actively developed.

However, Twitter’s recent turning off of their old 1.0 API broke Ambientweet, and I wanted to at least get it working again, hence the release of 1.2.

By all means report any bugs that you find still lurking within this version, and I’ll endeavour to fix them…

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August 23, 2013

Some interesting coding guidelines from Richard Buckle (@RichardBuckle).

I’ve not read through the whole document yet, but what I’ve read makes a lot of sense.

Like all these things, much of the value comes not with slavish obedience, but with the thought that is provoked. Introspection about what we do as coders, and how we can do it better, is essential.

(oh, and thanks, Richard, for the ECLogging namecheck…)

Update: I’ve read em all now, and I can’t find anything to disagree with.

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As is often the way, a new beta follows swiftly on the heels of 1.1.2b7, which was crashing on startup! I’ll repeat the details of 1.1.2b7 here too, since they are essentially the same:

A few weeks back, Twitter made some changes to their service.

Unfortunately, these changes caught me on the hop slightly, and Ambientweet (which hasn’t been receiving a lot of love recently, I must admit) stopped working.

Happily, I have now released version 1.1.2b8, which fixes these problems, and resumes normal service.

It appears that there may also be a slight problem with the auto-update mechanism at the moment. I’m looking into this, but if for any reason you have trouble getting your existing copy of Ambientweet to update, I would suggest simply downloading it again from our beta software page.

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You wait for ages, then along come three at once…

Another beta, this time to fix a problem with the preferences panels.

There is still a slight problem with the auto-update mechanism at the moment, so another beta will probably follow shortly.

I’m looking into this, but if for any reason you have trouble getting your existing copy of Ambientweet to update, I would suggest simply downloading it again from our beta software page.

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A few weeks back, Twitter made some changes to their service.

Unfortunately, these changes caught me on the hop slightly, and Ambientweet (which hasn’t been receiving a lot of love recently, I must admit) stopped working.

Happily, I have now released version 1.1.2b7, which fixes these problems, and resumes normal service.

It appears that there may also be a slight problem with the auto-update mechanism at the moment. I’m looking into this, but if for any reason you have trouble getting your existing copy of Ambientweet to update, I would suggest simply downloading it again from our beta software page.

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