Now I build my own Twitter client, with Black Jack and Hookers. In fact, forget about the Twitter client. Anyways, there are a few things I have in mind when building this:

1. I have a 7″ Tablet with Android, guess which OS it will support? Yeah, I mostly use it for Tweeting anyways, so this app must be the killer app.
2. Keep it simple, sunny. I often read, I often write/RT, I often mark as spam. Using my client must be a cakewalk for the most frequent activities.
3. It will be FREE for everyone with the same pain that I feel, but not to be commercialized. not even from 3rd parties.

So here is the current feature list.  I AM aware it is quite a lot, so I will proceed in several steps.

If you think you have something I am missing, or the ultimate killer feature. Contact me! at twitter for instance: @pxlphile

Reading

• No promoted tweets
• simple UI, good UX but no space wasting
• read later service
• big finger solution
• little interactive areas in message area
  • for everything else: context menu
• mention area or no-friend mentions into Timeline instead?
• mentions -> color scheme
• own tweets -> color scheme
• conversation showing
• tweet cache for quicker conversation display
  • cache size?
  • technically possible?
• DMs
• grouped by user
• sorted by time descending
• own are shown too
• no hidden replies (oh the annoyance)
• missed tweets counter
• no sound necessary, twitter is watched all the time
  • counter in taskbar, too
• configurable refresh settings
• time diff Tweet<->current DateTime
• No Hashtag listing until it is manageable (or immense user demand)
• negative filter
• zoom in feature
• concatenatable positive/negative filter (regexp?)?
• Regexp’able (or simple replace(foo, bar)’able) timeline (woot killer feature) -> the herp-derp-ifier
  • like “replace(“cyber”, “inet”)
• no ads/spyware/adware evar
• timeline sorted by time (whatever it takes!)
• export selected tweets/conversations to PNG/GIF/JPG
• (optional) Geolocation services for tweets/RTs/linked pics
  • Link to GMaps
• save images to local hdd: imgur, twitpic, yfrog, etc.
• view images (imgur, twitpic, flickr, yfrog, anyone else got ideas?)
• open images/URLs in browser (one-time configurable solution in settings, all this clickety goes on my nerves)
• (optional) save youtube video to local hdd
• TweetDistance counter until newest Tweet
• RT’d/Replied marker for easy recognition of earlier actions
  • Color scheme
  • Icons?
  • Warning for re-RT/re-reply?
• Snooze User – mute users for a selectable time period
• Tweetlonger support R/O

Tweeting

• attachments
• image attachments
• video attachments
• Optional camera image)
• (Optional camera video)
• configurable url shortener
  • in DMs too
• send later service
• drafts
• DMs
• optional “bitch, please!”/phrase button (h/t @wimremes)
• RT by ref, RT by append
  • < lol appender
• RT of protected accounts (configurable if desired or not)
• Hashtag list support
• mention support: friends/latest user occurrences in timeline (configurable)
• save own tweets in compressed db
• configurable amount:
  • only the latest n tweets
  • max size m MByte
• searchable tweets within compressed db and twitter API
• Take title from shared URL
• no facebook/linkedIn support
• tweet marker but working Per Account

Contacts

• proper profile view
• view userspammer heuristic? (-2..2: nah, probably not, not sure, probably yes, oh yes)
  • build external service from my twitter friends
  • simple heuristics first, awesome comes later: 66% spammer? -> spammer score: 2
• quick block
  • removes instantly mentions from TL, user from followed-list
• quick spam mark
• Follower view
• Followee view
• action count (omg what was this all about?)
• edit own profile

replace locally Users avatar with own image (h/t @wimremes)

View (general)

• self adjustable color scheme
• multiple accounts

Miscellaneous

• Migration plan to the obvious 1M migrations for every single feature… :/
• exit menu entry
• settings menu entry
• activity stats
• configurable text sizes: read/tweet/rest
• Platforms: Android and Desktop (w/ Java)
• separation of concerns for core/display architecture
• API for Desktop (for your pleasure)
• encrypt DM (in/out) on HDD
• ban message (maybe randomly chosen msgs from a shout list)
• App.net compatible (that would rock)
• (optional) configurable gestures
  • at least fixed gestures for usual actions

A few of you know, I became active in the infosec community by setting up graphics and/or slogans for three Security BSides events. I asked nothing much in return – just the kudos or my reputation. To the regrets of my spouse I do this for free and with my heart blood, because I like the idea of sharing knowledge for free, especially in terms of infosec.

A couple of months now, I was asked not only to sponsor the BSidesLondon logo but also help out with the posters. Of cause I felt flattered and anticipated the making of another GFX goody. But the workload to that time plus family business made me say, that I couldn’t make it for free. If I have to involve work time, it’s not free; maybe i’ll-make-it-buddy-cheap but not free. Sorry. Perhaps I chose the wrong words to say so, as a non-native English speaker please accept my apologies, but I am sure there’s no harm done.

If you watch closely my twitter stream you do already know I created this year’s party poster for BruCON. This was a totally different game for me, mainly because I had two wisdom teeth removed surgically. So I had enough time to do some eye-candy because I couldn’t go to work or take care of our child. Furthermore I felt pretty appealed because both of the style of BruCON and the party location theme.

But please don’t misunderstand me, I like to create stuff for free for the right reasons. I was sure the BSides people would give me the proper appreciation. But if there is too much time involved, I put family always first, my daytime job second, and then comes everything else.

cheers, PPxL

Note to Maltego Users: there you go.

1. Write code in C++
2. Use Horde3D
3. Submit proper documentation

Earlier I had little experience using Microsoft Visual Studio and totally no experience in GCC. So my path was made up in that part. I checked out the latest Horde3D trunk and installed GLFW after some google’d instruction for Windows. At that point the first problems arrived just in time, namely: configuring a running MSVC project. Of course the projects delivered with Horde3D did run pretty good, but once I tried to modify it I failed entirely.

Basically, it took all good luck with the project properties like library paths and-whatnot. You can checkout my project file but for a Pro it would certainly suck.

The second thing I needed to develop for The Game is a clear structure. I needed flexibility because I did not know what code I need to write in the first place. I started with the code given from Horde3D. But I was not very happy with the structure because it lacked a bit of transparency. So I started to think, and this was a kind of first result:

initial class structure of the game

Start.cpp and Start.h code could not be written as a Class file as it adheres some C coding way which I could not avoid.

But the rest of the code was designed as proper C++ classes. As you can see Horde3D is used in the lower four classes. The class Game was thought to be the controller of the game play, while World, Player, and Enemy just interact on defined ways.

The other day then I decided to put up a 3D games marathon, consisting of nothing less than:

1. Half-Life² [done]
2. HL² Episode 1 [done]
3. HL² Episode 2 [done]
4. Team Fortress
5. Bioshock [done]
6. Lego Racers 2
7. Mirror’s Edge [done]
8. Mass Effect [canceled] (oh god why)
9. Mass Effect 2 [canceled due shittyness of Mass Effect 1]
10. Saboteur
11. Borderlands [done]
12.  Borderlands [added, to be bought]
13. Just Cause 2
14. Fall Out 3 [done]
15. Tony Hawk Underground 2 [done]

Now that’s not bad, but I figure it will take until next year’s end to finish the list. Not that I am such a bad gamer but I have to take into account that

1. I have a live,
2. I have a job,
3. babies do also need their share of time

My only problem is that computer gaming is such time wasting. So I also start to release some new comics at either at schaacomics.de or (usually translated in english) at deviantart. Stay tuned!

For command line subversion clients you enter (10 MB with some graphics):
svn checkout http://philipppixel.unfuddle.com/svn/philipppixel_thegame/ your_local_directory_goes_here

If you are only interested in the code (100 KB) you go here
svn checkout http://philipppixel.unfuddle.com/svn/philipppixel_thegame/TheGame/The%20Game your_local_directory_goes_here

The username/password is “guest” of course without quotation marks. Please note that all resources are free for educational purposes. But if you make money of it, I wanna see a fair share of it (not that the code is that excellent, but you’ve heard it)

For a quick overview I also provied an API and the (former) SVN statistics.

By the way, this blog is used a bit to set up my Horde3D lessons.