It’s now about a year since I started writing my first book, a novel, a science fiction novel and I am still writing. It’s been an experience which has travelled the world with me and let me travel the world through it. Started on a bit of a whim it has become an all encompassing […]
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Facebook Graph Api – Is user a fan of page id – Using FQL and opengraph to mimic Pages.IsFan
Working with integration of Facebook Connect for authentication is mostly easy at the moment, once you have got your head around FBML etc. However as they are in between switching from the old Restful API and the new graph API there remains the odd little thing that has only a splatter of useful documentation online. […]
Reddit Wallpaper Grabber V0.1
As I said last post if I couldn’t find a reddit wallpaper downloading program I would make one. Well I found upboat (which is good) but with windows 7 (or display fusion) offering cycling desktop backgrounds every x minutes I thought I might write a more brute force downloader. So I did. Reddit Wallpaper Grabber […]
2015 – What will technology be in 2015?
I read a fair bit of technology news and discussion online, its a kind of hobby of mine – around this I make sweeping statements about what I think things will end up like. While a fairly pointless thing to do its interesting to note what you think things will be like in the future […]
xp_fileexist Network Drive – T SQL Based File checking
If you didn’t already know you can check whether files exist, find file sizes and all sorts of other useful things directly from within Transactional SQL Query. In this example I had a table containing a few columns that gave me the network drive location and filename of a few thousand files and I wanted […]
Facebook and Banter_ID
Traditionally you are meant to be as descriptive as possible in your coding of parameters/variables – this is something I have often overlooked in pursuit of quicker prodecural work. Either way Facebook have shown their origins with their latest descriptor for a thread between too friends ( a wall to wall view ) with banter_id. […]