Last week marked the third TweetDeck hackday. It's where we all take a day away from the usual daily project work of keeping your favourite Twitter clients updated with the latest and greatest, too dig deep try an idea that has been easting away inside or just an excuse to try and develop away from your comfort zone.
A day of solid heads down coding by the dev team with a quick break for lunch and a few coffee's resulted in another array of outstanding demoable work.
My concept
Taking a few cues from @Aral's feathers app I wanted to expand the compose box inside @ChromeDeck so that you could create UniCode art and of course add in a plane character for that all important travel tweet.
Thanks to some upcoming work on scheduled tweets in ChromeDeck I was able to quickly adapt the UI and get something working. So thanks to the filming skills of Mr Dodsworth here is a quick video of my hackday project:
Previous hackdays
I wanted to build a UI in @ChromeDeck that could be used at conferences or on TV (TweetDeck is used by a number of new organisations). The focus would be on cycling through tweets in a selected column updating as new tweets came in. The key difference would be on only displaying a single update on screen.
A leader board system was also implemented, to count how many times a user had tweeted since the display system was activated. This could be used for running competitions at conferences or events.
No video this time but some stella shots from Iain:
Read the TweetDeck blog posts to see the other team members hack day projects in full glory.
