Minor update – 0.1.2

MrMDavidson — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:44:02 +0000

It is with much chagrin that I announce 0.1.2 of Twaddle. This minor release includes a greatly optimised code path for retrieving your friends list – this is particularly noticeable when you manually refresh the list. The new version updates my friends list in ~10 seconds (most of which is spent waiting for Twitter.com and parsing the XML response) compared to 0.1.1’s ~60 seconds. These saved 50 seconds represent time your Pocket PC could be going back to sleep – essential for good battery life.

Secondly, this release will not crash when one of your friends’ most recent update is an @reply to someone with protected updates that you do not have access to.

As with last time there’s two available download mechanisms;

Pocket PC installation – Run this file from your phone
Desktop installation – Run this file from your Desktop. Twaddle will be installed next time you sync with that PC

Alternatively, if you have Microsoft Tag Reader (visit gettag.mobi on your phone’s browser) installed on your phone you can scan the tag below.

Pending update

MrMDavidson — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:07:10 +0000

It’s funny, you test an application for several weeks and determine there’s no major bugs and go ahead and release it. Then on the day of release you experience a crashing bug didn’t occur previously resulting in egg on your face. Basically, when Twaddle gets updates from Twitter it looks at the list of tweets for any @replies. If it finds an @reply it checks who the target is and proceeds to download their information (if Twaddle does not already have it). Once this is done it can proceed to download that user’s avatar and create the schmick little overlays that you see in the various Twaddle views. Unfortunately there’s a slight problem… if an @reply is directed at a user who protects their updates, and you do not have access to those updates, Twaddle flails it’s arms in the air and crashes. Not cool, not cool all. Now that I’ve experienced the problem and know what it is I can fix it.

I also noticed that obtaining your friends list took way longer than it should. This will also be rectified in the next point release (0.1.2). As a result of this fix the first time you use 0.1.2 – or newer – you may notice that Twaddle takes a bit longer than usual to start up due to an update to the database used to store information. The upside of this is that Twaddle should update a lot quicker, resulting in better battery life, and generally a better user experience.

Expect the new version today or tomorrow.

Twaddle » 0.1.2

Minor update – 0.1.2

Pending update