• @shoodybaw Flying via Dubai does seem to be a somewhat round-about way of getting to Beijing..?! in reply to shoodybaw #
• @mikerhodes You should be up here in Chester. We’ve got absolutely divine weather today. in reply to mikerhodes #
• @Puckrin I like the positive thinking! It does at least *look* the part. in reply to Puckrin #
• @jonty A good thing we got in there early. in reply to jonty #
• Aboard the Heathrow Express heading off to the first of many destinations. Stockholm this time. #
• Looking forward to a glorious – albeit hung-over – day in Stockholm. #
• @agenticarus Good skills. I look forward to seeing a shiny new computer when I return! in reply to agenticarus #
• Is anyone else having a problem convincing iGoogle and Twitter OAuth to work nicely? #
• Another absolutely stunning day here in Stockholm. Looking forward to a slow day looking around the city. #

• @davejones79 Looks like fun. How are you enjoying yourself so far? in reply to davejones79 #
• My datastore APIs don’t like me this morning. #
• @mas90 What did you do to the poor thing? in reply to mas90 #
• @digitalreality Ah. Such a hardship! in reply to digitalreality #
• @davejones79 It’s just a little bonkers isn’t it. Tokyo oh how I miss you! in reply to davejones79 #
• @dan_mcneil Dare I ask what it’s for? in reply to dan_mcneil #
• Up bright and early this morning. Hoping productivity this way lies. #
• Finally noticed the upgrade to SubEthaEdit 3. Took long enough but at least I now have tabs. #
• Oh how I only hope they don’t: http://bit.ly/DuRRA #
• @eartle Oh?! in reply to eartle #
• Life seems to have become inexplicably busy of late. Wondering how I ever managed to hold down a job as well! #
• @eartle That does sound like a big of a bugger. I guess you’re a shoe-in for multimedia mind! in reply to eartle #
• @digitalreality As frustrating as it might be, I gave Things another shot and found I really quite like it! #
• Remembering back when Amazon was a brand new concept. Oh how things change. #
• @kerrent I’d love to have a look but I don’t know what your Flickr account is. Could I request a URL :). in reply to kerrent #
• Just found a key card for the Park Hotel Tokyo. A reminder of times past. #
• @digitalreality So long as you come up clever way of describing it I’m sure it’s fine. Alas, you cannot have a project wash-up every day. in reply to digitalreality #
• @eartle @jonty Oh what a twisted web. If only he’d say something nice about my software! in reply to eartle #
• Flights to Uganda booked. Next-up: Sweden. #
• @rosechild No. But I’m sure you can dress it up a little. in reply to rosechild #
• @davejones79 Welcome back to Blighty. Congratulations on surviving your first Japanese adventure. in reply to davejones79 #
• Back in Chester for a few days. Enjoying the slightly less robust power. #
• @agenticarus Glad to see you’re finally seeing the light. in reply to agenticarus #
• Playing around with iGooge’s OAuth support. Hopefully one of the final steps to encouraging Flutter into release. #
• Finally found a use for Evernote. Business card digitization here I come. #

• Having a very quiet slow and quiet evening. Trying to work out the next steps along the path to releasing software. #
• @jonty Awesome dude! #
• Flutter now seems to behave better in Safari thanks to @iLeafy. #
• @tav It seems that that might be slightly excessive? in reply to tav #
• Dev-Phone 1 now allows me to do Latitude updates. We make progress! #
• Picked up a wealth of reading from my discussions with @digitalreality yesterday. #
• Planning on allowing beta testing of Flutter today. #
• @tomwhitson How are the game sales coming along? #
• @dan_mcneil A solution to? #
• Starting to feel quite relaxed. Beginning to want to sit down and read some of my novels. Always a good sign. #
• @iLeafy Two graze boxes await consumption. One somewhat fresher than the other I should imagine. #
• Wondering if two URLs cause problems for Flutter. My old website, http://www.in7.co.uk and my new one http://www.in7.co.uk #
• That was meant to be http://www.jbmorley.co.uk and http://www.in7.co.uk. Oops. #
• Sorry for inadvertently spamming everyone’s Twitter feeds with random letters. A bit of a bug in Flutter. #
• @digitalreality You’ve just reminded me that I need to look out my passport! #
• More time spent using my Mac allows me to discover great pieces of software like CoverSutra (http://bit.ly/4E4Mb
  . #
• Just finished reading Promethea Book 1. All-in-all thoroughly enjoyable. #
• Promethea books two and three on order. #
• @makiwi Is that just a non-sensical collection of kana and kanji or have they made up characters? #
• @rosechild One has to wonder what they were thinking! #
• @tomwhitson Well 30 has to be better than none. It’s beer money and it’s enough to mean it’s not just your friends buying copies! #
• Flutter beta finally available. Please give it a shot: http://bit.ly/bngup
  . #
• Amazed that no-one un-friended me on Facebook last night. Normal service is now resumed. Many many apologies. #
• @mikerhodes That’s very strange! in reply to mikerhodes #
• @eartle What’s this about Mobbler? And did you try Flutter yet? #
• @makiwi Oh dear! That really does sound shocking. But then I imagine my efforts at Japanese are not dissimilar. in reply to makiwi #
• @eartle There’s nothing to stop you using Last.fm, Facebook etc as sources. Threading already uses timestamps. How would you do searches? in reply to eartle #
• @eartle There’s a bug right there. I’ve not been correctly setting the reply-to field so threading doesn’t work. *sigh* #
• SFTP up and running! #
• @iLeafy Too many video games that ;). in reply to iLeafy #
• Should I be getting upset about the recent Twitter reply changes? While it seems in bad taste I doubt it really affects me significantly. #
• @mikerhodes Did you ever take a look at CoverSutra? It’s the first iTunes ‘extension’ I’ve ever found myself liking. #
• Listening to Madeleine on the wireless. #
• When is someone going to produce a language without excessive boiler plate code?! #
• @digitalreality Ah. An emacs user I presume. in reply to digitalreality #
• @digitalreality Gosh golly! That does sound rather keen. Still, knowing it makes me feel slightly better as I debug my sync engine. in reply to digitalreality #
• @tomwhitson Looks like it might be worth a shot though. I’m starting to look at things in anger now. We should do lunch ;). in reply to tomwhitson #
• @rosechild It seems unlike you to complain at cats, however deranged =). in reply to rosechild #
• @balanon I’m afraid I have no resources to offer just yet, but I’m certainly looking forward to reading the article! in reply to balanon #
• An entire day spent writing software with no external influences of any kind can leave one buzzing. #
• Hoping I’ve rewritten my ShowTidy script for the last time. #
• Up bright and early this morning. Heading off to Cambridge for more vaccinations. #
• Sitting in perhaps on of the worst service cafes in Cambridge. They don’t even seem to be capeable of noticing I want to pay! #
• @jonty I read that as engaged! in reply to jonty #
• Yesterday’s vaccinations don’t seem to have had anywhere near the effects of last week’s. #
• Todoist.com seems to be out-of-sorts this morning. #
• Vaccinations enjoyed yesterday. Hepatitis B, Japanese B-Type Encephalitis and Rabies. #
• Looking forward to the end of the football season. #
• @jonty Damnit. You told me you were busy you liar ;). in reply to jonty #
• Heading into town for Japanese. Looking forward to the osake, sushi and natto. #
• @jonty Oh dear! JavaScript. That can only mean you are getting disturbingly close to the user. Run! in reply to jonty #
• Sitting in a cafe in central London. Realising that I already miss the city life. #
• In Britain a burning bin warrants police and fire service attention. In China a flaming car is ignored. In Japan what would we expect? #
• @davejones79 Enjoy yourself sir. It will undoubtedly be an experience! in reply to davejones79 #
• If only it were easier to keep installations of Mint up-to-date. #
• The Dollhouse just got very good. #
• Prototyping OO code in Perl is a bad idea. Java/Python here I come. #

Returning to the UK, one inevitably flys into Heathrow and then takes the Heathrow Express onwards into Paddington. Despite the all-too-common feeling of sadness brought about by the conclusion of a journey, I still find the fantastic Victorian architecture at Paddington a reminder that there is something special about Britain.

On Friday last week, I tried to capture just a little of that grandeur:

Flutter is a light-weight iGoogle Twitter client and is the first of a number of small personal development projects I intend to release in the coming weeks and months.

It is offered as an alternative to the fairly heavy-weight user experiences offered by many of the existing iGoogle-based solutions. All tweets, including replies and direct messages are re-threaded into a single feed to avoid switching between multiple tabs:

As the post title suggests, Flutter is currently in beta and, while I encourage everyone to give it a try, do expect to find a few pesky little bugs. I look forward to hearing about all such occurrences and will endeavour to fix them as soon as humanly possible. (Contact details can be found on the about page.)

Give it a shot: Add Flutter to iGoogle

Not an iGoogle user? Check out the standalone version.

On Authentication

Currently authentication is performed by passing users’ credentials directly through a POST request to Twitter via the server hosting jbmorley.co.uk. I am well aware this is exceptionally in-elegant; it merely serves as an interim solution until OAuth support has been implemented so please bear with me.

The Future

Suggestions and recommendations are always gratefully received. I am personally considering providing TweetDeck-like behaviour in the Canvas view, but this will require some internal rearchitecting so it’s some ways off right now…