The blog of Abraham Williams

The last two days have been filled with awesome talks of developer communities, code philosophies, merriment, and food consumption. @ GitHub pulled off an excellent first @ CodeConf and I'm already anticipating the next one. I've laid out my thoughts on a few presentations below plus an embed of some choice tweets from attendees. Metrics, Metrics Everywhere by @ coda Unfortunately I missed this presentation but I hear it was really good and I'm looking to implement some of the ideas for my upcoming @ unicornmetrics project. Hacking Space Exploration by @ arielwaldman Space is awesome! Documentation isn’t optional by @ jacobian Excellent documentation is key and it should be readable. Networks with Node.js by @ ryah Windows has a lot of issues but it is still the dominant OS platform. OSS on GitHub: Your Community is Your Best Feature by @ ginatrapani Make it super easy for your community to contribute. Especially in none code related ways. The ...

On this nice sunny day I'm happy to announce that I will be joining the Twitter Platform team as a Developer Advocate. This is especially exciting for me as I have been thinking about developer communities a lot recently and can now officially start implementing some of my Unicorn Theories . I will also be acting as a voice representing the third-party community within the company and will be looking into pushing a few projects out the door. High on my priority list are: open sourcing Twitter for Android , increasing rate limits to 1500 requests/hour , launching a cleaner, simpler version 2 of the API , and opening Annotations to a wider audience. As I start implementing Unicorn Metrics I will be keeping a birds eye out for potential additions to the advocate team. If you are interested solving hard problems be sure to check out #jointheflock . All new employees get an awesome Twitter shirt! Stay tuned for news on Chirp 2 (Trust me! You are going to love it!), and be ...