In the lab: Torunnify.com

I set myself a little project to produce a ‘web-app’ as a 30th birthday present, using my Twitter-authentication code for user logins.

I’m pretty pleased with it.

Since it was rapidly developed, it doesn’t have niceties like proper error reporting but it seems stable so that’s no big problem.

The one major thing I overlooked was that a ‘web-app’ intended for the user’s home screen on iPhone should make all content updates by JavaScript / AJAX. If you click on any real page links the app minimises then launches a Safari browser window, which is decidedly unslick. Sadly, that would take a fairly major architectural overhaul to fix.

Experience of problems like this on non-critical projects is one major benefit of the laboratory.

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