The Game Changer
Recently I’ve been trying to dive back into software development. My job in IT has stunted that growth a little bit, where I have more of a reactionary role, so when problems arise I act, when there aren’t any problems, the day becomes excrutiatingly slow. Going back to software development is my passion that I hope to be my career one day. What I’ve been doing lately is thinking of ideas of applications that would not be useful to myself, but to others as well. I’m a pretty avid twittering, been apart of the twittering game for about a year now and just love the simplicity of what it is and how many different ways people use twitter to either, communicate their own ideas, post interesting links or just get news (I’m a little of all three). Though it has some issues, my current phone of choice is the BlackBerry Bold, but what has been lacking is a decent twitter application for the BlackBerry platform. Although there are a decent amount of applications out there, twitterberry, socialscope (currently in private beta), blackbird, twittermail, twibble most are lacking in some way. I am setting out to create my own BlackBerry Twitter client which I will aim to complete a working product within two months. I have very little experience in working with external API’s and am not very familar with any REST concepts, hopefully the thoroughly documented twitter API reference will do me some good.
--written by Peter To--
