Saturday, June 30, 2012

Almost have the daemon...

Project Update


Was able to lock down most of the code to consume the Streaming API and put the tweets into Redis as a JSON string.  For the consumer part the Ruby TweetStream library works like a champ.  I did a quick test of reading tweets from Redis using Python, and it's just as easy as writing them with Ruby.  Things are finally looking good with the whole migration to the Streaming API task.

Just need to clean some things up and make the script into a daemon, which the TweetStream library very helpfully has options for...

Chain Update


Weekends with company are fun.  Have time to work on the project this evening and things are coming together.  Feels very relaxed...


Party On!

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