That Twitterriffic editor

They say imitation is the best form of flattery. Well, here’s another attempt at doing that, after my “attack” on the Facebook iPhone app (decidedly I’m on a somewhat copying mood lately).

I use Twitterriffic a lot, both on the iPhone and on my Mac, and particularly in the iPhone version, I’ve always liked the little editor for tweets. It grows and shrinks as you type, it appears and disappears following the keyboard, and it provides a standard toolbar with many useful buttons (Actually, I wish the Mac version would have a similar text entry box, which would grow bigger as I type; it’s probably the only complaint I have about it!)

Well, here’s my own attempt at doing something similar, and after 1 hour of work, the result is published, ready for you to enjoy at Github. As usual, no strings attached, pure public domain stuff, so use it and play with it as you wish.

That Facebook strip

No, not a comic strip nor anything else that uses the “strip” word. But rather this component which lately has appeared in many different iPhone applications (see below some screenshots from the Facebook, the LinkedIn and the TSRinfo ones), and which I simply reimplemented, and then posted the code to Github for everyone to enjoy and use.

Update, 2009-02-24: I have just been told via Twitter by enormego that two weeks ago they have released another “Facebook strip” in Github! You might want to check it out. Mine is much simpler as far as I’ve seen, in particular I don’t have a custom class for buttons… :)

Going Github

This is something I’ve been looking forward to do for some time. After praising git back in 2007, now I’m moving many of my personal projects to Github, which has an absolutely brilliant service! For the moment I’m using the free account, but I will most probably switch to a paid account soon. The only thing it lacks, in my opinion, is a bug & issue tracker as you have in Google Code repositories, but other than that, it’s simply perfect.

So feel free to check out the projects I’ve moved there, and of course, to fork them and enjoy the code as you see fit.