Long Polling vs Pushes
Everyone knows what a "For" loop is. Nested "For" loops are the reason why many kids stopped being interested in programming after Java 101. Today, I switched methods completely for WishPanda. Before, I was reaching out to Twitter every 5 minutes. I was a begging bitch pestering Twitter "Did you have any new updates about #FloofyDoug?!".... and for most of the time, Twitter would shake their heads growing 12x more annoyed each hour. With TwitterStream developed by the good folks over at Intridea, they've managed to talk to the Twitter people and made a way so that Twitter can now tell me when there is an update and send it my way so that i don't have to ask every 5 minutes. So... basically whenever I get a notification, they'll push it along my way from their end, and I don't have be an incessant nagging brat. Pretty neat stuff! Hop aboard the Wish Train because WishPanda is chugging along!
