livetweeting

Tarek Ziade & Daniel Greenfeld blogged this first. I just stole the idea.

1. What's the coolest Python application, framework, or library you have discovered in 2009?

Well, I can't really say Django, but I really got into it in 2009, learned a lot of cool/new stuff and applied them in different projects.

I met the awesome power of ftplib and smtplib (which is kinda typical python style, it's just that I didn't know about them before). I was also introduced to Pip, Virtualenv and Tarek Zaide's Distribute.

2. What new programming technique did you learn in 2009?

I learned that I hate ASP.Net! I haven't really done anything nifty with it, but some gigs involved it. I'm not saying it's bad of ...

It is true that the best idea comes when you’re not aware of it (or anything related to it) and that’s what happened with LiveTweeting.com. Here’s the whole story: Samer Karam, a web consultant from Lebanon was looking for a way to implement the best twitter coverage for Le Web 09, he came up with the concept of live tweeting with croudsourced translations. At that time, my brother (who’s a friend of Samer) suggested me to develop it. Samer also contacted the awesome Maya Zankoul who did the design and illustrations.

So, Live Tweeting is an interactive real-time web app for multi-language live ...