Combining Twitter and World of Warcraft
I recently finished a project of incorporating Twitter into my World of Warcraft guilds website. The ultimate goal of this feature was to have an additional way of communicating with those outside of the game who do not have regular access to the guild forums.
For those who don't know: Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? -Twitter.
Twitters limit of 140 characters gives the perfect amount of space to get the important details across while not giving too much room to stray off topic. One of the highlights of this project is that a Twitter account is NOT required to utilize this feature. The messages can be viewed by RSS feed, Sidebar on the guilds website, and of course on Twitter.
All "tweets" posted on the guild forums are under the account @WKto - The format of all posts are in the format of [Username] - Message. This seems to be working out great so far. Usernames are pulled the current Session the user is logged into on the forums. I chose to do it that way because usually forum names tend to match up with in game names.
The feature has been released less then 36 hours ago, but already seems to be catching on. I believe in the coming weeks it will become a great addition to the website!
Wassup 2008
This is a followup to a commercial done eight years ago, for the original, view the video below:
Patch Day – Both Ups and Downs.
The day started off very good, waking up at 6am and launching the Downloader to finish up the finial bit of the monstrous 1.2GB patch. The patching was taking awhile so I left it going and went to class. Everything was all ready to go about 5 hours before the servers were suppose to go live.
Stuff started to go down hill from there starting with Eitrigg not coming up until over an hour after the first servers coming up. This isn't a big surprise though, Eitrigg is always at the tail end of servers being brought back up. The next bit of bad news comes shortly after when I tried updating my addons. Everyone of my addons with the exception of Auctioneer are Ace addons. All needed updating. My WowAce Updater wasn't showing that I had any updates available. Interesting right? On a patch day you would expect there to be multiple updates for Addons. I decided to go over to WowAce and see if maybe there was an updated version of the updater needing downloading. I got quite a shocking surprise. WowAce is now part of the curse network. WAU is no longer supported! Quite a shock.
Thanks to the suggestion of guildies, I was able to find WoWMatrix. It is nothing compared to the speed or simplicity of WAU, but it will do for now. One thing I noticed about WoWMatrix is its speed, it is stupidly slow, now that could just be because a few million WoW geeks are trying to update their addons at the same time. It looks like time will tell on that one.
And finally, to top it all off, the hamsters who power the auth server for Blizzard seemed to have died. :\
Deja Vu of Patch 2.0 eh?
Back again.
With one month until the expansion is released, I decided it is time to blow the dust off my WoW account. It is nice getting reacquainted with old friends and the alternative world. I am getting back into the familiar groove of dailies, farming, and questing. There are some new dailies from after I left which are exciting along with new quests. Possibly the best time of all is reworking my lovely UI. Yes, I am one of those guys who redo their UI weekly in attempt to make it perfect, which never quite happens.
Turns out Patch 3.0 is dropping tomorrow, so it looks like I came back right in time for the good stuff. Before WoLK drops, I want to get my Druid to 70 and get her her epic flight form. Still debating weather or not to buy another account and move my Druid over to it and dual box my way to 80. I think it would be worth it in the long run due to lack of time with college.
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