Author : Daniel Creanna
Release : 2009-01-01
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Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 627/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis PROFESSIONAL TWITTER DEVELOPMENT: WITH EXAMPLES IN .NET 3.5 by : Daniel Creanna
Download or read book PROFESSIONAL TWITTER DEVELOPMENT: WITH EXAMPLES IN .NET 3.5 written by Daniel Creanna. This book was released on 2009-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Market_Desc: .NET programmers looking to build new Twitter-centric applications or add Twitter integration to web or line of business applications Special Features: " Twitter's millions of users are an attractive target for developers looking to make a splash with new applications" Twitter's staggering 1,382% year over year growth rate in Feb 2009 (according to Nielsen Online) has developers racing to catch up" Developers can also integrate Twitter features into other applications" The author Daniel Crenna is known in the Twitter development community for his TweetSharp developer library for the C# language" Targeted for the large community of professional .NET developers" The Twitter user base, growth pattern, and user devotion are similar to the early iPhone adopters, making Twitter development look like the next potential big target for the same developers now flocking to build iPhone applications. Top iPhone developer books actually sell better than their consumer counterpart books About The Book: The book is broken down into two major conceptual areas, core topics and extended topics. In core topics, RESTful services, the backbone of Twitter and many social data APIs are covered in sufficient depth for the developer to know how to structure their queries, handle asynchronous operations, utilize headers and post binary data. Continuing from an understanding of RESTful web communication, the developer learns how to request and retrieve responses from Twitter's API, with forays into data processing with XML and JSON (for REST API data), and RSS and Atom (for Search API data).In extended topics, the developer is introduced to a variety of important topics for developing their own custom applications. Caching, third party application interoperability, real time data binding, push vs. pull data scenarios, and Twitter's anatomy and constraints, are explored in detail to paint a bigger picture of how a Twitter application is designed. Following from performance and feature considerations are authentication and security, with coverage of Twitter's upcoming OAuth security model at the forefront. The reader will learn how to authenticate with the OAuth specification for web and Windows applications. Finally, readers will get an in-depth look of TweetSharp, a .NET library for developing Twitter applications that will speed up their development and time to market for their own application ideas.