I’ve spent a lot of time reading Google Analytics documentation both official and unofficial this week, so much so that I joked I should put “ninja” or “guru” on my resume as that is so much more professional than my middle name…

On Tuesday of last week Twitter shut down version 1.0 of their API. This change had been a long time coming, there was ample warning. I fixed all the code I wrote in PHP months ago, but what never got fixed was my favourite Twitter client. I’ve been a loyal user of Twitbird Pro for years. I paid for this client and stuck with it even though updates had become non-existant. On Tuesday I learned why, the company that makes Twitbird Pro has basically abandoned all their paying customers without even informing them that the software would ceased to be maintained anymore…

Twitter is removing support for RSS feeds in a few days. If you actually used the RSS feed feature of the original Twitter API this is disappointing. Twitter wants to know who is making every single request to their API whereas RSS is fairly anonymous…

My mashup codebase has not been updated in years but even without that APIs change their policies and the technique documented below probably no longer works. Sorry if you were counting on this code to solve all your problems, you may have to hire a developer to fix this or try another API…

Although it hasn’t helped me find a job, I’ve continued to build stuff with PHP. I’ve also been brushing up on my Objective-C. After upgrading to use Version 2 of the GData (YouTube) API I had to upgrade to Version 1.1 of the Twitter API. This took a lot more work especially trying to meet the display requirements. I’m not sure it is perfect, it is close and I’m still not a PHP guy…