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Twitter is rapidly moving up the social networking food chain and is currently outranked by only Facebook and MySpace. It features a programming API that allows you to build Web sites and applications (both desktop and mobile) for reading and posting to Twitter, finding other Twitter users, aggregating Twitter content, and other uses. This book walks you through the process of combining many programming tools in order to build exciting, useful, and profitable applications.
You′ll begin with a look at RESTful services and examine how to structure your queries, handle asynchronous operations, use headers, and post binary data. From there, author and TweetSharp developer Daniel Crenna explains how to authenticate with the OAuth specification for Web and Windows applications.
- Twitter is growing in popularity at a rapid pace and this book shows you how to take advantage of its programming API to build applications
- Explains the various ways to design a Twitter application, including caching, third party application interoperability, real–time data binding, push vs. pull data scenarios, and more
- Takes an in–depth look at TweetSharp, a .NET library for developing Twitter applications–whose creator is also the author of this book
- Walks you through requesting and retrieving responses from Twitter′s API
- Warns you of considerations to take into account regarding authentication and security
Professional Twitter Development shows you how to get the most out of Twitter so that you can build your own applications for this exciting new platform.
From the Back Cover
You′ll begin with a look at RESTful services and examine how to structure your queries, handle asynchronous operations, use headers, and post binary data. The author then explains the use of Twitter in push–based scenarios and shows you how to use WCF Polling Duplex, the gnip.com service, and Twitter′s Streaming API.
You′ll learn how to authenticate with the OAuth specification for web and Windows applications. Plus, you′ll take an in–depth look at TweetSharp, a .NET library for developing Twitter applications. Examples in Windows Forms, ASP.NET, Silverlight, and Windows Azure help you learn to make the most of Twitter and build your own applications for this exciting new platform.
What you will learn from this book
Ways to design a Twitter application, including caching, third–party application interoperability, near real–time data updates, push vs. pull data scenarios, and more
How to request and retrieve responses from Twitter′s API
Various techniques for developing custom applications
Considerations to take into account regarding authentication and security
How TweetSharp can speed up your application development and time to market
Who this book is for
This book is for experienced developers who are interested in building Twitter applications or adding Twitter integration to other applications.
Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real–world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.
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Customer Reviews
I read the book in bite-sized chunks, 10 minutes here, 30 minutes there, as well as dipping for key information as required. While developing my project I made certain decisions, and reading Daniels book help me make those decisions, correct misconceptions and use best practices.
An easy read which any developer should find very helpful for any Twitter project, as well as being in-depth enought to cover all aspects of API development.
Content
The book is packed with a lot of content about the services Twitter offers. It's clear that Daniel has a lot of knowledge on the subject. He packs the book with API references, code he's written to simplify and make requests from Twitter, and other important information.
The book's chapters are laid out relatively well. The chapters do flow in a relative order that works, moving from overview, to API references, to working with the raw data and the various API's, and finally ending up with the advanced topics of performance, functionality, data push/pull, and cross platform applications.
I find a lot of value in the service references in the book. This makes a great reference to refer back to when using the Twitter service. The book also has a wonderful reference of error codes that twitter uses to return to the caller, as it isn't straightforward to typical HTTP requests. The information on OAuth, as it is a pain to get setup correctly, is priceless too.
The book also covers the type of information (the properties within each object) that may be returned from a given object. Some of these properties change depending on the type of data being queried. For instance, date formats change depending on the API you are using, and so you have to be careful and handle this appropriately.
At the end, he also includes information about the custom API he wrote for Twitter (making Twitter more simple to use). His API is pretty fluent and easy to use, and has much online support (google TweetSharp for more information).
I think the book could use a few more .NET examples to reinforce the lessons learned. For instance, after all the API references, it would have been helpful to have another .NET code example of how to use one of the API methods, just to reinforce the chapter's content.
Writing Style
Daniel is very knowledgeable about the subject, and you can tell from his writing. One of his strengths is his ability to lay out a solution to the challenges of Twitter. If you don't like to work with the low-level details in Twitter, you may have a hard time following the book; that is the kind of book this is, after all, because that is simply how Twitter works.
I feel that some times, the book tells you how to solve a problem, and not properly explain what the problem is. This isn't always the case, but certain areas of the book left me wondering why, instead of just getting code to resolve the problem.
Conclusion
Great book, worth the read, but know what you are getting into. This book gets into the detailed aspects you need to be aware of, which is those low-level error code, OAuth authentication, web requests and processing XML/JSON data, etc.
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