You can follow me at @annievang if you are on Twitter. I’m just testing out some functionality. Hover over my name @annievang !!

1. You need to have a Twitter account. http://twitter.com
2. Sign up your developer application at http://dev.twitter.com/anywhere and complete the form.
3. Add the javascript to your page.
4. Preview & test.  If something goes wrong, repeat step 3.
5. Done!

The instructions, tutorial, and documentation at dev.twitter.com were not intuitive.  Hovercards worked seamlessly since it requires only “read” access.  However, the follow badge widget was not working since it requires “read & write” access.  As of today Saturday, April 17, @anywhere applications are set to “read only”.

Here’s a link to the Google groups post stating that Twitter is working on a fix:

http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/5c96366e2362fe85?pli=1

—- What I had to do to get around that was go to http://twitter.com/oauth and change my application settings to be “read & write”.

I wish Twitter would have updated their dev.twitter.com documentation page with that notice rather than just sending out a tweet.  I missed the tweet in my streams of other tweets and just read it now.  If it was noted on the documentation page, it would have saved me so much time troubleshooting.

I am really excited that I’m leaving to California tomorrow!  San Francisco to be exact!  I’m going to the Twitter Developer’s Conference aka “Chirp”.  I’ve always missed California since I moved away in 1994.  California is full of happy, warm memories for me.  It was the happiest place.

I’m looking forward to the developer’s sessions and hack day.  I’m a programmer at heart, so anything techie … I’m all for it!

I’ll be missing LOST on Tuesday night and my advanced iPhone class on Wednesday night! Oh man, I’m gonna miss an important class.  Luckily, my teacher said if I bring my external hard drive, I can transfer his video on lecture to my drive next week when I return.  SWEET! Can’t hardly wait for that class too!  And for LOST, thank goodness for my iPad ABC app, I can watch the episode from my iPad when I have time. Yay!!!!!

Okay, I better start packing cos I leave early tomorrow morning.  Got a transfer point in Denver.

I woke up at 7 am on Saturday, April 3rd, 2010 to get ready for the big opening event!  By the time I got myself together, eat a quick breakfast and jet out the door, it was already 8:45 a.m.  I told my husband to drive as fast as he could cos I had to be at the store by 9 a.m.!  When I got there, there was a long line.  Click on the pictures below!

I saw my teacher Brad Larson standing in the other line marked “Pre-orders.”  He had pre-ordered his iPad in advanced and was able to get his quicker than the rest of the folks who didn’t… those like me!   I snapped a quick picture of the store before I entered!

Sorry, the pic is kind of dark.  It was in my bedroom and I didn’t have good lighting.  Look at how small my iPhone is compared to my iPad!

I’ve been a proud owner of my iPad for about a good week now and I’m still loving it.  I’m in process of making a video review of my favorite apps.  That will come soon!

I really liked this girl’s (she goes by applegirl002) video she made of her singing “Irreplaceable” by Beyonce using some iPhones as her instruments!  It’s pretty amazing what you can do with Apple products~!

I think this is what she said,  “Kick”, “snare plus clap”, “snare 2″, “High hat” then the chords to the song: ” A sharp, F, C minor, D sharp, D sharp minor, D Minor.”

The iphone apps she used in her video are:

• Beatmaker by Intua
• Guitar: Play and Share by the Frontier Design Group

She also made another video singing Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face.”  The iphone apps she used in that video are:

• I am T-Pain
• Beat Maker
• Nlog Synthesizer
• Guitar by Frontier Design Group

Enjoy and happy making music!