http://blip.tv Recent Posts - Blip - Blip en-us http://blip.tv Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:06:05 +0000 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:06:05 +0000 97E629C8-FEA7-11DD-AD9C-CDECF6A687FE http://blip.tv/phpnw/phpnw08-track-1-talk-4-stuart-herbert-twittex-from-idea-to-live-in-7-days-1801114 phpcodemonkey 329594 phpcodemonkey phpnw PHPNW http://blip.tv/phpnw http://a.images.blip.tv/Phpcodemonkey-picture357.png 1801114 1791693 file TV-G 0.0 2009-02-19T17:06:05Z English 0 0 0 2652 h75r7fd+Ag http://blip.tv/play/h75r7fd+Ag http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post1801114&skin=rss Phpcodemonkey-PHPNW08Track1Talk3StuartHerbertTwittexFromIdeaToLive116-118.jpg On Thursday 14th August, twitter withdrew its free UK SMS alerts service, citing costs and an inability to negotiate acceptable fees with UK mobile networks. One week later, on Wed 20th August, twittex went live as a replacement service for UK twittex. So how did we do it, and what would we do differently next time? twittex is built on the power of PHP and the LAMP stack, relying on the symfony framework and MySQL 5.1 with the Q4M extension. In this talk, Gradwell dot com Technical Manager Stuart Herbert explains how the company went about designing and building twittex, the problems they faced along the way, and what - with hindsight - sprints like this should do differently next time. http://a.images.blip.tv/Phpcodemonkey-PHPNW08Track1Talk3StuartHerbertTwittexFromIdeaToLive116-118-75.jpg Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/h75r7fd%2BAg.html?p=1" width="550" height="443" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#h75r7fd+Ag" style="display:none"></embed> <br /> On Thursday 14th August, twitter withdrew its free UK SMS alerts service, citing costs and an inability to negotiate acceptable fees with UK mobile networks. One week later, on Wed 20th August, twittex went live as a replacement service for UK twittex. So how did we do it, and what would we do differently next time? twittex is built on the power of PHP and the LAMP stack, relying on the symfony framework and MySQL 5.1 with the Q4M extension. In this talk, Gradwell dot com Technical Manager Stuart Herbert explains how the company went about designing and building twittex, the problems they faced along the way, and what - with hindsight - sprints like this should do differently next time. YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 1801114 http://blip.tv/file/1791693 Technology php. phpnw08 phpnw manchester uk twitter twittex Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:06:05 +0000 php. phpnw08, phpnw, manchester, uk, twitter, twittex http://a.images.blip.tv/Phpcodemonkey-PHPNW08Track1Talk3StuartHerbertTwittexFromIdeaToLive116-118.jpg php. phpnw08, phpnw, manchester, uk, twitter, twittex <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/h75r7fd%2BAg.html?p=1" width="550" height="443" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#h75r7fd+Ag" style="display:none"></embed> PHPNW08 Track 1 Talk 4: Stuart Herbert - Twittex: From Idea to Live in 7 Days http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ 53.72865815499685 -2.695598602294922