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Diego Buthay. Hacker by nature. follow me on twitter, @dbuthay

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Pipe Viewer 14 years ago

It's amazingly useful to have realtime throughput rates

tail -f query.log | pv -tri 1 > /dev/null

I think both are OK. Personally, I like whiteboards to outline solutions. A sheet of paper may serve the same purpose.

Once I decided how to solve the problem, vim comes in handy :)

[dead] 15 years ago

I'd go for ROR, or maybe Sinatra + your favorite ORM.

If you don't want to host your own servers, you can grab an ec2 free micro instance, or just go with heroku or cloudfoundry.

What you see on your timeline at the time you sign up is indexed right away. After that, the app gets all your tweets and those from who you follow. As twitter has an hourly limit for API calls, it may take some time to index your friends history.

It depends on how many friends you have and how much they tweet

I'm fetching your timeline, you friends timelines, and indexing them with IndexTank.

It's incremental, so it may take a while. There's a limited number of allowed twitter API calls per hour, so in case you have lots of friends it'll take some time to have them all indexed.

About the status, there's a status bar on the upper right corner.