Ralph Spandl pulls apart the inner workings of Tweet Me - a custom Kentico web part allowing for the sharing of blog posts via Twitter - sharing the thought processes behind the development.

The idea of developing a Kentico web part that would automatically append a Twitter update link came one raining morning. Until that point I had not planned to write a web part and I was not a big fan of Twitter.

I’d had one of my colleagues Alice O’Brien telling me that I should be using Twitter, for weeks, but I could not imagine spending any time tweeting, and I had no idea what to tweet about.

In fact, the only thing I could think of using Twitter for was to maybe spread the word about my blog posts. An idea was born. I needed a simple, easy-to-use button that would create tweets of my blog posts, usable by my readers as well - a simple one click web part.

Until fairly recently the blogosphere has been relatively quiet with regard to Kentico, but as the Kentico story begins to gain traction, there is one voice that is becoming increasingly recognised, that of Ralph Spandl, Interactive Architect and founder of r42.

Although almost accidentally, Ralph’s series of blog posts on his use of Kentico have become a starting point, a research resource, and in many ways, a bible for other Kentico developers worldwide.