Category Archives: twitter

Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that allows you answer the question, “What are you doing?” by sending short text messages 140 characters in length, called “tweets”, to your friends, or “followers.”

How to TWEET from a SQL CLR Stored Procedure

Posted on 03/03/2010 by Eric Fickes

Here’s another SQL Server 2005 geek out moment, a CLR SPROC that tweets to Twitter. Big shoutout to Danny Battison for sharing the C# code to post to Twitter. This is what got me started on the C# side of … Continue reading →

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From joke to AdobeMAX in 6 months

Posted on 10/30/2009 by Eric Fickes

Hey, we should jam! Yeah, we totally should. No seriously, we should jam sometime. We can play bad 80s cover songs and play under the name April Fools. That’s the gist of how my current band formed. A handful of … Continue reading →

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My first DestroyTwitter theme

Posted on 04/23/2009 by Eric Fickes

Currently my favorite Twitter desktop client is DestroyTwitter.  It doesn’t have all of the same features as TweetDeck and Twhirl, but it is light, snappy, and fun to use. One of the killer features is the online Theme Builder. I … Continue reading →

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Update Twitter status from an HTML form

Posted on 04/14/2009 by Eric Fickes

UPDATE 5.28 : As you probably guessed I’ve been slacking on this, but I’d like to think of it more of just being temporarily roadblocked.  I did a little work on the HTML client and added the nice character count … Continue reading →

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