September 2009
SwingBuilder and Gwitter (Groovy + Twitter)
This article tackles a topic that strikes fear into most server-side Java developers: Swing. As you'll learn, Groovy's SwingBuilder takes some of the sting out of this powerful yet complex GUI framework. Also see how a Twitter GUI written in Groovy might look like. Doesn't Gwitter (Groovy + Twitter) have a nice ring to it?
June 2009
Knee deep in the Twitter REST API
Twitter provides an API so Web developers can enable their users to access the various features that the Twitter site provides. In this article, learn the basics of using the Twitter REST API. Get started with a simple examples, then build your Twitter API skills. The ability to pull specific information from the Twitter Stream is endless.
Enhancing the Scala Twitter library for Java Clients
Make it substantially easier to access Twitter than just opening an HTTP connection and doing the work by hand as well as making Twitter easily accessible to Java clients and Java developers. With this new Scala Scitter library you wont have too much to do to get started leveraging the Twitter API.
May 2009
Scala and Twitter becomes Scitter
Learn how Scala's functional nature, which aligns well with Twitter's RESTful nature, and its extremely good XML processing features, makes it easy to build a Scala client library to use Twitter API to query its public timeline of tweets. This article shows you by example, how to use Scala to build the basic framework for a client library for accessing Twitter.
February 2009
Socially mixing Groovy, Twitter, Google, and a bit of Ajax
In this article, learn how to build a social network with Google Maps, Twitter, Groovy, and Ajax. By combining a Google Map with location information that Twitter exposes, you can create a mashup that allows people to view Twitter in light of a particular location. The simple application this article builds with open APIs, and a bit of imagination, will open yourself up to a whole new world of social applications development. The possibilities are endless. The rest is up to you.
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