22.Nov.2008 at 15:20 by Kathryn Reeve
Very good talk. Intersting beyond what hat i expected. Very well done and good luck with your "new project". As a side note, i had heard of tittex but not of any of the others..
Twittex: From idea to live in 7 days
Stuart Herbert (22.Nov.2008 at 06:00)
Talk at PHP North West 2008 (English - US)
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.
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24.Nov.2008 at 09:27 by David Goodwin
Great talk - perhaps my favourite (with my non-coding hat on).
Your honesty was really useful, as it's often hard to find such insights into project management.
I had heard of twittex - but must have looked when it was 10p a message and thought it was interesting, but perhaps too expensive. I don't use twitter anyway.
The highlight of the conference, Stuart's presentation was informative, witty, and relaxed, for what must have been a stressful project.
I loved that he could talk about what they did wrong. Having good, solid, reliable, reusable systems means that re-use is easy and development of new projects can be achieved quickly.
25.Nov.2008 at 09:29 by Anthony Doherty
Slick, honest, humourous and well-paced presentation. Pleasures, perils and pitfalls of rushing an app to market when time is of the essence.
Good use of timeline software to pace the story of how it had been anticipated, how it was, and how it ought to have been.
22.Nov.2008 at 15:06 by Dave Nattriss
Really interesting insight into what you did, and great to see you honestly analysing what you did right and wrong.
Timeline graphics were very cool too (what software was it? Mac-only?), apart from the way each of the days were spread out far too much.
(the guy that asked about how much you pay for messages, who got logged out of this site within an hour, weirdly)