Warm Fuzzy Twitter/EE Moment
Earlier this morning a friend of mine shouted from their Facebook status:
“HELP AND ADVICE! I need recommendations for stand alone chat and possibly appointment thingy….for use in EE…I need simple easy to implement solutions….any ideas ppl?” (emphasis mine)
I’d read this from my Tweetdeck app. The column beside “Facebook” is a search column, which searches for “#ee OR #expressionengine OR #ellislab”. Randomly, sitting right there beside was this tweet:
“brettdewoody: @litzinger I’m looking for a chat system that integrates with EE. Saw your work on the EE blog and sounds like you might have a lead?” (emphasis mine)
So, I jumped online to read tweets between @litzinger and @brettdewoody, and found this reply from @litzinger:
“The chat system does not integrate with EE (it’s not EE code). It’s completely stand-a-lone but included with an EE plugin.” (emphasis mine)
Since that sounded pretty much exactly what my friend was looking for, I replied to @litzinger, asking him again if he was interested in sharing the chat work.
Just to be clear, he doesn’t know me from a hole in the wall.
Within an hour or so I got a DM saying he would “soon”, which in my book usually means days weeks months or years. Especially because, like I said, who am I to him?
Nonetheless I was very appreciative and got back to him with thanks. An hour later, he tweets:
Releasing the Chat app made for the District202.org site. Was coded in about 5 hours from scratch by Brian Hanson. http://bit.ly/HQBJ0
WOW. I mean wow. I’m not sure if this is touting the power of Twitter, or the devotion of the ExpressionEngine community, but this is the kind of magic I’m encountering more and more, and it really has me speechless.
And infinitely grateful.
