I don’t know whether its purely related to my location when I am calling facebooks’ graph API or what, but all the talk about what timestamps facebooks API returns seems to be wrong. Perhaps they’ve changed something, perhaps they are re-adjusting them just for me. If its the latter I wonder why they are giving me GMT [...]
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Facebook time in php – Facebook uses GMT not PDT/PST?
Posted in Facebook Pages, PHP, Projects, Social Media, Web Development Tagged facebook, facebook apps, facebook pages, facebook time, timezones
Unable to drop JQuery sortable onto empty list? Hack solution
The problem: You have a multi column (or area) JQuery UI Sortable (these are neat) which only needs to show a “drop zone” when the user has started to drag a sortable object. The JQuery documentation for this doesn’t account for the reality of the above, its all very well if you want the empty [...]
Posted in Javascript, Snippets, Web Development Tagged JQuery, Sortable
Hosting facebook Apps/Applications/iFrame Pages on 1and1 (SSL)
For those who run facebook fan pages you will likely know about fan gating and the importance of adding your own content to your facebook fanpage. This used to be done with the facebook static fbml app but that’s really the old way, looking forward the best way is to make its own specific app. [...]
Posted in Facebook Graph API, Facebook Pages, PHP, Social Media, Web Development, Web Technology Tagged 1and1, facebook, facebook apps, fan gating, fan page, ssl
Facebook Fan Page Branding Template – Illustrator
Facebook Fan Page Branding Template – Creating a facebook fanpage branding with Adobe Illustrator As I have been dabbling with facebook fan pages I thought I would share a few of the take-away’s, in this case purely to do with the branding of your facebook page, increasingly an important outward factor in all web developments [...]
Posted in Facebook Pages, Projects, Social Media, Web Development Tagged adobe, branding, facebook, fan page, illustrator
Why not to use big red arrows in display ads…
A masterful example of Adobe advertising, its almost as if LinkedIn placed it there knowingly!
Remove unwanted eBay strings from A2P [Auction2post] posts with Automated Editor
Free rules file with this post! Do you use Auction2Post [A2P]? If you don’t its a wordpress plugin which automatically implants listings from ebay as wordpress posts, including affiliate links through the ebay partner network from which you earn a commission. Its quite useful. Read my post about it here. Anyhow if you don’t use the [...]
Posted in Affiliate Marketing, PHP, Projects, Search Engine Optimisation, Snippets, Software, Web Development, Wordpress Tagged Auction2Post, Automated Editor
Facebook Like button not working or showing 0 likes
Got a facebook like button not working showing zero? Do you wan’t to add a facebook like button to your page that points to a facebook page (fanpage) rather than the page the likebutton is actually on? It is possible but you may have come across this facebook bug that I did. Scenario’s are either: [...]
Posted in Facebook Pages, Snippets, Social Media, Web Development Tagged facebook, fan page
Automated Editor Released!
A nice small chunk of a project, Automated Editor is a wordpress plugin which allows you to automate some of the post editing process. Written to be lightweight and flexible it can do a lot with a little input. The plugin replaces a previous script/small app I had previously commissioned to offer automatic string replacement/removal [...]
Posted in Affiliate Marketing, Business, PHP, Projects, Social Media, Web Development, Web Technology, Wordpress Tagged Automated Editor, Small Nugget Projects
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