twitulater’s posterous

The long awaited Twitulater 0.11 has arrived and I have to admit I was quite taken aback when I realised it's been more than a whole month since version 0.9 was released. Hopefully none of you were holding your breaths waiting for this thing to arrive and if you have, I feel very sory for losing such wonderful prospects. Do hope you're all alright.

Let me explain a bit of what was going on this past month and why the jump from 0.9 straight to 0.11. The thing is, Twitulater is, for now, my hobby and sometimes silly things I would rather abandon in favour of Twitulater, like exams, come up and request to be tended to. During this time development grinds to a halt and before you can say "fat cheeseburgers eat kitties for dinner" two weeks fly by and that's half a month. Then you start developing like a madman, but realise implementing Growl is a tad more difficult than it looks and ... you get the picture right?

The reason behind jumping a version is simple - I wanted to produce something stable. A small community is forming around Twitulater, or at least some interest has started brewing and it's time to step it up a notch and become more careful when releasing. That's why when version 0.10 was ready I simply did not want to release it because things were laggy, stuff looked out of whack and it was all in all a Vista experience, which is something I don't want to put my users through. So while I was at it I also implemented some of the features planned for 0.11, why not eh?

Since a lot of things happened under the hood you might not notice them all. BUT I am fairly convinced you will notice the clean new interface that has had most of its buttons removed and replaced with automatisation. So for instance you no longer have to shorten URL's, just paste them in your tweet and Twitulater shortens them automatically. Uploading files a drag? Just drop them in the tweet and Twitulater uploads images to twitPic, everything else to shrani.si (later there will be fine grained control over this)

Mac users will also be happy to note that Growl is now used to notify you of certain events, which is something I personally have been missing for a while now ... so what else is new, oh right, you can now read Direct Messages and when the app starts it no longer pulls so many tweets out of the stream, but limits itself to 200 and rather pulls as many replies as possible. This is a much more useful combination, @robertbasic was right.

Perhaps there are some other things I neglected to highlight, so here's the full public version of the changelog. Of course don't forget to download at http://twitulater.com and give Twitulater a spin.