As a side note: facebook shorturls, or at least abreviated urls exist. We all know about fb.me, but fb.com works too…. Random occurance: Was saving down facebook data into a database from the graph api, wanted to save the urls in a mixed url table but didn’t want to bother saving the whole http://www.facebook.com every [...]
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Did you know: Facebook short url’s already kinda exist
Also posted in Facebook Pages, Projects, Web Development, Web Technology Tagged dataspace savings, facebook, facebook shorturl, random occurance, shorturl
Facebook time in php – Facebook uses GMT not PDT/PST?
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 [...]
Also posted in Facebook Pages, PHP, Projects, Web Development Tagged facebook, facebook apps, facebook pages, facebook time, timezones
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. [...]
Also posted in Facebook Graph API, Facebook Pages, PHP, 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 [...]
Also posted in Facebook Pages, Projects, Web Development Tagged adobe, branding, facebook, fan page, illustrator
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: [...]
Also posted in Facebook Pages, Snippets, 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 [...]
Also posted in Affiliate Marketing, Business, PHP, Projects, Web Development, Web Technology, Wordpress Tagged Automated Editor, Small Nugget Projects
Writing a book. Yeah its a novel, Science fiction…1 year later
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 [...]
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. [...]
Also posted in Facebook Graph API, Facebook Pages, PHP, Web Development Tagged facebook, fan gating, fan page, FQL
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