Twitterfountain » Development http://blog.twitterfountain.com Visually exciting backchannels! Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:44:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 (Dutch) We zoeken een snelle, goede developer http://blog.twitterfountain.com/dutch-we-zoeken-een-snelle-goede-developer/ http://blog.twitterfountain.com/dutch-we-zoeken-een-snelle-goede-developer/#comments Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:04:10 +0000 admin http://blog.twitterfountain.com/?p=247 We zoeken een (back end)-developer die bereid is mee te ondernemen in plaats van uurtje-factuurtje te doen. Voldoe je zelf niet aan het profiel, maar ken je in je omgeving wel geschikte mensen, wijs ze dan op deze mogelijkheid!

Twitterfountain groeit

Sinds het ontstaan van Twitterfountain in 2007 (!) heeft de gratis toepassing zich gestaag ontwikkeld en bekijken meer dan 100.000 mensen iedere maand een Twitterfountain online.

Het wordt tijd om gehoor te geven aan de verzoeken van gebruikers om bepaalde nieuwe functionaliteiten te introduceren. We denken bovendien dat het tijd is om ook een betaalde versie van Twitterfountain te gaan bieden, eentje waar de gebruiker meer mogelijkheden heeft tot moderatie van de inhoud.

Wat we nodig hebben:

Een goede, zelfstandige developer om voor Twitterfountain een nieuw backend te ontwikkelen waarmee:

  • user accounts beheerd kunnen worden
  • users kunnen betalen voor PRO-accounts (iDEAL, Paypal)
  • meerdere nieuwe features geimplementeerd worden
  • Daarnaast moet de developer ook
    • HTML template bouwen met formulieren (front-end werk
    • De bestaande methode voor het genereren van hashcode porteren (dit bestaat grotendeels al, hoeft alleen geintegreerd te worden met de nieuwe onderdelen)

De developer (m/v) is bij voorkeur in of in de buurt van Groningen gevestigd.

Taal/Techniek

Coding kan wat ons betreft in Django, Ruby on Rails of vergelijkbaar. Wat er aan backend aanwezig is, is op basis van PHP en MySQL. Voor de goede orde: Twitterfountain zelf is een Flash-based applicatie.

Twitterfountain krijgt superduper hosting aangeboden door Internet Valley, je zult werken met hun Debian-install, en hun support (die uitstekend is).

Timing

Door het onverwacht afhaken van de ontwikkelaar, die ons de afgelopen twee jaar ondersteunde op het gebied van PHP en MySQL, komt onze planning in gevaar. Eigenlijk zouden we deze klus voor het einde van september geklaard willen hebben.

Vergoeding

Twitterfountain is nu een gratis product. Er is dus geen geld om het werk nu al te betalen. Maar we verwachten dat de PRO-versie zeker een geldstroom op gang gaat brengen. Het aanbod is derhalve volledig in overeenstemming met de doelstellingen van de Tijdbank:

  • we hadden deze activiteiten begroot op 24 uur,
  • we betalen je je uren uit, zodra er geld binnenkomt vanuit de TF PRO en net zolang tot we de uren netjes vergoed hebben,
  • om het de moeite waard te maken, beloven we je 125% te betalen, dus geen uren voor €65/uur, maar €81,25/uur, excl BTW.

Interesse?

Neem dan contact op met Lykle (lykle@deondernemers.nl, @lykle, 06-53766964).

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How does it work? First open the fountain settings menu:

location

Location settings

At the moment, you’ll have to manually enter  latitude and longitude coordinates for your desired location, and then enter the radius in kilometers.

There are several ways to find out the lat/lon coordinates of a place. Using google maps you can:

- Click ‘Link’ in the top right corner. The link will contain the coordinates:

Coordinates in Map Link

- You can also enable a cursor tip in Google maps that will always display the location of your mousecursor:

Enable Cursor Coordinates in Google Maps

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You can now show images from twitpic urls in the background of Twitterfountain. You can also disable other images by setting image source to “no images”. Twitpic images will still show!

This works especially well for seminars where visitors are tweeting images, instead of posting them to Flickr. Recently this has been used at the dutch literary festival “Boek en Bal”:

http://www.twitterfountain.com/benbs

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  • Better support for special characters, like é, ç, ü, etc.
  • Links and @usernames in tweets are clickable. We’re working on refining this feature. For example, it would be better if an animation pauses while you hover the mouse over it.
  • Flickr and Picasa images are less pixelated when enlarging them.

If you experience any issues, please let us know in the comments.

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You already were able to share your Twitterfountain with a basic url that you could copy/past from the Share-tab. This link unfortunately only contained the keywords that you had set in your Twitterfountain.

Now, ALL your custom settings are saved in a new short url: thefounta.in followed by a so called hash-code. You can share the thefounta.in link with all your friends and be sure that they see the Twitterfountain just the way you intended!

We hope you enjoy this new bit of functionality. Let us know how you like it!

]]> http://blog.twitterfountain.com/share-your-customized-twitterfountain-with-a-unique-thefounta-in-short-url/feed/ 6 Do you want to share your thoughts on Twitterfountain PRO with us? http://blog.twitterfountain.com/do-you-want-to-share-your-thoughts-on-twitterfountain-pro-with-us/ http://blog.twitterfountain.com/do-you-want-to-share-your-thoughts-on-twitterfountain-pro-with-us/#comments Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:31:20 +0000 admin http://blog.twitterfountain.com/?p=216 Thank you all for completing the first Twitterfountain Survey we send out recently. We are almost done completing the analysis of the results, and are very happy with the response we have received so far.

A new Twitterfountain PRO?

We are currently working on a new Twitterfountain. The new Twitterfountain will have two versions, one is the Twitterfountain Basic with the features the current Twitterfountain has (minus some remaining bugs). The other one is Twitterfountain Pro, a version in which we will provide more specific features to our users.

In order to get a perfect focus, we have compiled a second survey, this time even shorter than the previous one, and we would really appreciate it if you took the time to answer a few questions with regards to a future PRO version.

Go here to take the survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/twitterfountainpt2

Please forward it to your friends to improve the future Twitterfountain!

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Since we are working on the new Twitterfountain we would like to know a little bit more about our you and what you think about Twitterfountain. That’s why we put our intern on the job to set up a questionnaire.

We think he did a great job and now we need you, the user, to fill out the survey! It will only take a few minutes to complete but it will help us immensely with our next steps.

You can find the Twitterfountain survey here. Please forward it to your friends to improve the future Twitterfountain!

P.S. at the end, you can leave your email address and or Twittername to stay up to date if you want to. No worries if you don’t, we’ll just take your answers then.

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Also, there’s a problem with checking the ‘twitpic’ box in the images tab. We’re looking into it right now, but it may take a while. Please uncheck the ‘twitpic’ box to get the fountain up and running again!

Our apologies for any inconvenience!

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The new animation style uses a 3D effect to display 1 twitter message at a time.

To select the animation, choose ‘swing’ from the message animation settings.

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We’ve finally come up with a solution. When displaying a Twitterfountain, you can open the settings menu and click ‘load kanji’. This will load the Japanese characters (Kanji and Kana).

Loading Japanese characters (also usable to display Chinese) comes with a small price: an additional download of 1MB. By comparison: the regular font is just 16KB.

When embedding a fountain, you can choose to load Japanese characters by default. Just tick ‘load kanji’ before getting the embed code.

Please preview the new font-enabled Twitterfountain and tell us if you find any irregularities! When all goes well, we will replace the old TwitterFountain.

www.twitterfountain.com/kanji

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