New FBFoundations Features and Updates
You asked for it, you got it. My FBFoundations WordPress plugin for Facebook Connect was built to provide you the basic building blocks to create your own Facebook Connect-compatible blog. The idea being you add the foundations, and then plugin developers can add their own compatible plugins on top of that with little to no […]
Read more...Introducing the FB Share Button WordPress Plugin for Facebook Share
Today Facebook launched a nifty little tool enabling website owners and bloggers to allow their users to better share and track their content on Facebook. The new tool provides a piece of HTML and javascript that renders a little “Share” button. When clicked, the post is tracked by Facebook, the number of shares is shown, […]
Read more...Facebook Launches Application Creation API
One of my biggest frustrations as a Facebook API developer of WordPress plugins has been the need to require my users to go out and create their own application in Facebook for their blog. To do so they had to install a “developer app” on Facebook and know what forms to fill out after they […]
Read more...FBFoundations Facebook Connect Plugin for WordPress
One of my biggest frustrations in adapting Facebook Connect into WordPress blogging has been the fact that most plugins out there either have too much, or too little incorporated into them. When you add more than one, you end up calling the Facebook Javascript Client libraries more than once, and often reinvent the wheel for […]
Read more...My Facebook Connect Wishlist (for WordPress)
Today everyone seems to be wishing me a Happy Birthday – it’s not really, but it is @jessemccartney’s birthday on Twitter, so I get all the “ZOMG Happy Birthday @jesse mccartney” Tweets from uber-excited fans. Some times I throw them a bone and tell them how much I love them as well. It’s fun to […]
Read more...Oh, the Trouble With OAuth
This article has been sitting on my desk for the past week or so, and recent activities around the Twitter/Facebook/LiveJournal/Blogger DDoS attacks have made it even more applicable, so it’s good I waited. The problem centers around the “Open” authentication protocol, OAuth, and how I believe it is keeping companies like Twitter who want to […]
Read more...There’s More Than One Way to Store a Password – PerlMonks Hacked
Hackers are in a state of Nirvana as it would appear they hit the gold mine of programmer passwords in a hack of the popular Perl forums and resource site, PerlMonks.com yesterday. The hack claims to have gained access to the database of more than 50,000 passwords, which insanely were stored in plain text in […]
Read more...Making WWW::Facebook::API Facebook Connect Ready
I’m going to get geeky on you here again. I’ve been working on a few things with SocialToo to enable Facebook Connect on the site – more on that to come. What I’ve been surprised by though is that this long after the launch of Facebook Connect the main Perl libraries for Facebook, WWW::Facebook::API, still […]
Read more...Curing Spam on Twitter With Better Follow Limits
I posted this over on the Twitter developer mailing list to try and get a discussion going. I thought I’d post a copy here for my readers to discuss – maybe you have more ideas than I do. I want to make it clear that I do not condone what some users of SocialToo are […]
Read more...Learn More About Facebook With Upcoming WebCasts
I’ve been invited to do 2 WebCasts in the next 2 weeks that I think you might be interested in. As always I’ll try to post my slides on SlideShare if it makes sense to do so. I really like an interactive presentation so most of the time my slides don’t make sense. The first […]
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