The final thorn in my side when building the TwitterSpitter was something totally out of my hands. Twitter limits how many times you can request data from its services to 150 times per hour. This on its own is manageable but I had a problem where my rate limit was mysteriously diminishing at a very...Read More

When working with Twitter I foolishly got pretty far into my development without testing how my applet would work once it was hosted on a web server. You see Flash is very open to loading data from any domain when you are testing locally. If you have a swf on yoursite.com that needs to load...Read More