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Facebook app statistics
One of the things I really like about having an app on Facebook is that I can easily see how many people are using it. This may sound trivial, but for my Firefox and IE extensions, I’m stuck trying to...
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Security hole in Facebook Footprints example
As I was working on Funhouse Photo last night, I ran into a bug where a database insertion operation was failing. I realized that this was because I had copied the Footprints example, and created the...
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Kicked in the nuts by Facebook
I had a really low moment yesterday. I’d just finished the request-sending part of Funhouse Photo, and it was working like a dream. The request contained a picture of the recipient that the sender had...
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GoogleHotKeys version 1.01 released
I’ve just uploaded the latest version of GoogleHotKeys for both IE and Firefox. The main site links to the addons.mozilla.org site for Firefox, and that may take a day or two to be updated. You can...
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Facebook development tips
Here’s some techniques I picked up during Funhouse Photo’s development. Create a dummy user for testing notifications Unless you’ve got a trusting friend willing to give you access to their account,...
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Heart Attack Hill
After all the coding yesterday, me and Liz spent the evening on a bike ride in the Simi hills. We started off at the south end of First Street and went exploring on a different route than usual. We...
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Server overload!
Funhouse Photo appeared on Facebook’s directory a few hours ago, and it’s up to 106 users already. The bad news is that I’m starting to see occasional timeout messages when I’m testing it. Looking at...
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The new server is up and running
I’ve now got the new server up and running at http://funhousepicture.com/. I’m holding off on moving the app from dreamhost until the DNS has had a good chance to propagate, but I’ve got a test version...
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Engagement changes to Facebook stats
Facebook has just introduced some new default statistics for applications. Previously they would just show the total number of users that had installed the application, now they’re trying to measure...
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Queuing up commands in unix
I’m trying to lay down some decent foundations for processing images for a few thousand users from a single server. Because of the thrashing problem, one of the building blocks has to be a single...
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