Writings
BlogEngine.NET 2.0 Released; Incarnate Plugin Updated9
by Karsten Januszewski on Jan 12, 2011 in Development
It’s very exciting to see the release of BlogEngine.NET 2.0, which continues to shine as a full featured blogging engine written on ASP.NET. I can see why they’ve jumped from version 1.6 to version 2.0 with this release, as it is a major update from their last release. You can read all about the new Read More…
Excel, PowerPivot and Data Mining Twitter7
by Karsten Januszewski on Nov 17, 2010
Out of the box, The Archivist (our Twitter archival and analysis service) provides six visualizations of sliced Twitter data. However, there are some visualizations that The Archivist doesn’t provide. For example, consider an archive on the term soundcloud with 388,000+ tweets. The Archivist will show you the top 25 users who tweeted about soundcloud. I Read More…
The Latest Twitpocolypse0
by Karsten Januszewski on Oct 19, 2010 in Development
There’s another Twitpocolypse on the horizon. If you’ve developed against the Twitter API—and especially if you’re using a JSON parser for deserialization—you’d better read up. In summary, there’s a serialization issue now that Twitter is moving to 64 bit signed integers, since Javascript can’t handle numbers greater than 53 bits. And Twitter passes the tweet Read More…
Architecture Of The Archivist10
by Karsten Januszewski on Aug 16, 2010 in Development
Building The Archivist introduced several architectural difficulties, which were solved over a number of iterations and trials and error. Implementing the core three features of The Archivist (archiving, analyzing and exporting) in a scalable and responsive way proved to be a challenge. While I’m tempted not to write this article as some will anticipate my Read More…
Using jQuery to animate a Hero15
by Tim Aidlin on Aug 12, 2010 in Process
For a long time designers were forced to use Macromedia / Adobe Flash for a lot of animations in their designs. With the rise of JavaScript, however, designer/developers are now empowered to create a vast array of animations and functionality that often used to require plug-ins. Now that the wider community has started to coalesce Read More…
How The Archivist Polls Twitter11
by Karsten Januszewski on Jul 7, 2010 in Development
You may be wondering how frequently The Archivist updates archives. Well, the answer to the question is more complicated that it may first appear. Let’s dig in. The Archivist interacts with Twitter using the Twitter Search API, which it polls at variable intervals based on the frequency with which a particular archive is updated. We Read More…
Introducing The Archivist8
by Karsten Januszewski on Jun 28, 2010 in News
The Archivist is a new lab/website from Mix Online that lets people archive, analyze and export tweets. Here’s a little more about why we built The Archivist and who we built it for. The Transitoriness of Twitter Twitter isn’t going away anytime soon. From Twitter: The tweets keep coming. And coming. Exponentially. Then again, tweets Read More…
Using Flotzam At A Conference4
by Karsten Januszewski on Jun 15, 2010
Flotzam at a conference is fun. It gives the audience the ability to immediately participate in the event—their photos, tweets, etc, show up on the big screen, giving them immediate satisfaction and making them feel like they are part of the event. If you’d like to see Flotzam in action, you can try it out Read More…
How To Skin Flotzam1
by Karsten Januszewski on
Here’s how to skin Flotzam: 1. Download the latest Flotzam source code and open Flotzam.sln in Expression Blend. 2. Hit F5 to see the application working. You should see different "flotzams" appear on the screen. By default, you will see public Twitters and Flickr images as well as videos posted to YouTube. You can change Read More…
How To Add a New Data Source to Flotzam3
by Karsten Januszewski on
Here’s how to add a new data source to Flotzam. 1. Create a new data model class that derives from DataModel in data.cs – look at the other derivations of DataModel to see how the model works 2. Add this class as a new Object Data Provider to datatemplates.xaml storyboards.xaml 3. Add new member variable Read More…
