August 16, 2009

Deployed Twitcaps v1.1 (Search RSS & Usability Enhancements)

This deployment marks the first non-beta release of Twitcaps. Very much a non-event from a user perspective, though stability and performance have been significantly improved.

  • Added the ability to subscribe to RSS Feeds for a particular search. Hackable URLs for the feeds at http://twitcaps.com/rss/%QUERY_STRING%
  • Many little usability improvements: Twitcaps remembers your auto-refresh preference, live image stream auto-pauses upon mouse-over, retweet-count works on searches again, other enhancements.
  • Back-end stability enhancements related to Twitter API timeouts (and lack thereof)
  • Performance tuning related to JVM options and use of Hibernate Second-Level Cache