TalkingPuffin Open Source Scala Twitter Client Dave Briccetti, @dcbriccetti http://TalkingPuffin.org

Audience I assume you are Programmers Probably with Java experience Maybe with some Scala experience Interested in Scala and Twitter

I assume you are

Programmers

Probably with Java experience

Maybe with some Scala experience

Interested in Scala and Twitter

Talk Objectives To educate about Scala and Twitter To solicit suggestions for improvements to TalkingPuffin To recruit contributors to TalkingPuffin

To educate about Scala and Twitter

To solicit suggestions for improvements to TalkingPuffin

To recruit contributors to TalkingPuffin

History See News at http://talkingpuffin.org/ Created To have whatever features I wanted in a Twitter client, and As a project for learning Scala To showcase my Scala abilities and attract clients for my software development consulting services

See News at http://talkingpuffin.org/

Created

To have whatever features I wanted in a Twitter client, and

As a project for learning Scala

To showcase my Scala abilities and attract clients for my software development consulting services

TalkingPuffin Demo

Source Code Repository http://github.com/dcbriccetti/talking-puffin/

http://github.com/dcbriccetti/talking-puffin/

Issue-Tracking System http://talkingpuffin.org:8080/jira/

http://talkingpuffin.org:8080/jira/

My Blog Posts http://briccetti.blogspot.com/search/label/Twitter

http://briccetti.blogspot.com/search/label/Twitter

Discussion Group http://groups.google.com/group/talkingpuffin

http://groups.google.com/group/talkingpuffin

Videos http://talkingpuffin.org/ Overviews Screencast of adding a new feature

http://talkingpuffin.org/

Overviews

Screencast of adding a new feature

Very Brief Twitter API Intro http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-API-Documentation

http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-API-Documentation

Source Code Structure 6000 lines of code, in 96 Scala source files About 13 Scala packages (take a look in the IDE)

6000 lines of code, in 96 Scala source files

About 13 Scala packages (take a look in the IDE)

Source Code Walkthrough Let’s look at some parts that you may find interesting Getting tweets from Twitter Twitter API interface library, contributed by Mark McBride @mccv Translating lat/longs to addreses with Google Geocode Web service Fetching and showing pictures What else?

Let’s look at some parts that you may find interesting

Getting tweets from Twitter

Twitter API interface library, contributed by Mark McBride @mccv

Translating lat/longs to addreses with Google Geocode Web service

Fetching and showing pictures

What else?