Perl – NOW is the Time to Step Up!!!
Rails has finally done it! They have finally admitted what we as Perl programmers have said since people went all Ga-Ga over it around the launch of BaseCamp. In an unprecedented blog post, Zed Shaw, creator of Mongrel, totally turned his back on the Rails community, saying what I’ve heard in outside circles all along […]
Read more...Next Utah Social Media Developers Garage Meeting: December 11
I mentioned this in the official group, but the next Utah Social Media Developers Garage meeting will be held Tuesday, December 11 at 7pm. Amazon.com’s Jeff Barr will be our featured speaker and will be talking about Social Networking sites that currently use Amazon Web Services and why AWS is beneficial to this medium. I’m […]
Read more...Auto-Follow Those that Follow you on Twitter
On Twitter, it is generally polite to follow those that follow you – they are saying, “you are interesting”, so it is the polite thing to show interest in them as well. I have heard from multiple people, including Scoble and Chris Pirillo that they have requested Twitter do this for them. Well, I’m proud […]
Read more...Jesse Stay is a Utah Facebook Developer and Consultant
Well, I’ve officially made the plunge! As of today I have announced my resignation at UnitedHealth Group and will very soon be completely self-employed, working on your business’s projects full time under my consulting business, Stay N’ Alive Productions. If you have a project of any caliber, I am giving short-term (that could become long-term) […]
Read more...Am I Still One of the Only Utah Facebook Developers?
I mentioned this earlier, and only learned about one other Utah Facebook Developer. Today the question was raised again as someone contacted me, looking for Facebook developers in Utah. I only had one person to refer them to. Are you a Facebook developer? If so, please comment below and I’ll send you referrals! As for […]
Read more...Presenting at Utah Facebook Developers Garage Tomorrow
Just a reminder to everybody that I’ll be presenting at the Utah Facebook Developers Garage tomorrow (August 9th) evening at 6pm. The details are all on phil801’s blog (link above). I plan on doing a “Hello World” walk-through, where we’ll start with adding the application, work on setting it up, and actually write things for […]
Read more...Google Analytics for Facebook Apps
Today, Facebook announced they were releasing a new FBML tag for developers that would allow developers of Facebook Apps to track their applications via Google Analytics. Before this, because the code you put on your page is javascript, there was no way to track your apps. I tried to install this, but ran into issues, […]
Read more...GrandCentral Facebook App
Well, I took advantage of a low-hanging fruit, and wrote my first public Facebook app yesterday. My Picasaweb app is still in the works, but this appeared to be a bit more simple, as I would only have to deal with the Facebook API on this one, rather than the Google API as well. The […]
Read more...There’s More Than One Way to Sign a Perl Book
While at YAPC::NA, being the Fanboy that I am, I asked Larry Wall to sign my Perl Book. He, very timidly (Larry Wall is a very shy person), started pulling out an entire stamp set, and a pen. For those that haven’t had their Perl book signed by Larry Wall, it’s not just a signing, […]
Read more...Larry Wall YAPC::NA Keynote
Here’s my summary of the Larry Wall YAPC::NA Keynote. I came late, so I missed some of the beginning. I’ll update as I go… Scripting Languages – Larry Wall started with BASIC, which he considers to be the first scripting language Tcl is a purer scripting language than Tcl. Perl got its extension mechanism because […]
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