Yesterday, Facebook’s IPO could be seen as a face plant for the kid full of hubris during his first time in the spotlight. As a developer, I see this as a potentially great set of circumstances for Facebook.
My hope is that yesterday’s anticlimax of an IPO may lead to a more stable platform to build upon. I like the API and the more I work with it that admiration only grows. I just want evolution in the API, not revolution.
Facebook is... + read on
In January I released the first commercial add-on I’d developed for ExpressionEngine. It’s called Pic Puller and it helps an ExpressionEngine developer create and integrate an Instagram application into his or her site.
This post isn’t meant to get you to go buy a copy of the Pic Puller add-on. (Granted, I won’t stop you either.) Rather, it’s a personal journal of my process of making it and what I’ve learned along the way. It may be a bit... + read on
I’ve got a small little Expression Engine add on., but it might be helpful if you use Pixel and Tonic’s WYGWAM to give your client’s text entry into an Expression Engine textfield a little UX love.
WYGWAM’s a good tool that I’ve used several times on sites. Clients find it an easy thing to pick up. For a recent build though, I kept noticing some strange spacing when my client was using it to create copy. There were empty P tag pairs scattered... + read on
I've been working on an Expression Engine site recently where I needed to truncate some HTML to fit within a certain sized space.
I've done similar truncations tasks before, right here on the SuperGeekery home page, with Oliver Heine's handy TruncHTML. I use it in combination with my own SuperGeekery Tagstripper to selectively strip out some of the HTML tags. (On a side note, it looks like Hacksaw has now combined these functions to some extent... + read on
A quick adendum to this post: Facebook has once again changed the API. As of July 12, 2011, you can no longer set the 'message' part of the status message. The lack of a message prompt makes the app we build here a little pointless, but not entirely. You can still set the image, the caption, and other pieces of information that will accompany a user's status message, but the message content itself is no longer able to be prompted by you as the... + read on
I recently worked on a project for a client who wanted to allow a user to view and print a number of recipes directly from a Flash banner. There were all the other ways of interacting with the recipes as well, like emailing, sharing on Facebook, and sharing on Twitter. (I don't go into those other thing in this post, but you can find me talking about how to do things like that elsewhere on SuperGeekery.)
Additionally, the client wanted these... + read on
I recently had to set up an MX record for a client and although I’ve set them up before, it suddenly made sense to me in a way that it hadn’t before. Perhaps my story will help someone else have a similar epiphany.
Basic name server set up.
My client had their site and their mail all handled by the same serving company. This meant their name server records were basic. There were 3 entries and that was it. All traffic to their domain used the... + read on
You may have already checked my post Setting Facebook Status with Flash (The Easy Way). As the name implies, that’s the easy way to prompt a user to update their status. That version basically calls a special Facebook URL from Flash that prompt a user with suggested text in the status window that they can edit before they post. That method is useful for many situations. It's a lightweight and very simple to code.
But why do things the easy... + read on
We recently updated the brick breaker game on the homepage of JMX2.com to use the Facebook API for Flash. Basically, if you want to share your score, the game will let you post your score to your wall on Facebook. It can do this because the game is a register Facebook application.
It was all going well until I tested the game in Google Chrome on the Mac. (At the time I write this, Google Chrome was at 10.0.648.127.) The embedded Flash movie... + read on
I’m working on a simple video recorder with Flash and I was having a strange issue with audio, but I thought I’d post here about it since I didn’t find any other posts online about it.
I have a MacPro and and Logitech QuickCam Vision Pro for Mac and I’m happy with it, although it doesn’t record hi def video like the box claims. (Logictech says this is because it relies on the Mac OSX drivers which don’t current support it, but I digress.) This... + read on
Yesterday, Facebook’s IPO could be seen as a face plant for the kid full of hubris during his first time in the spotlight. As a developer, I see this as a potentially great set of circumstances for Facebook.
My hope is that yesterday’s anticlimax of an IPO may lead to a more stable platform to build upon. I like the API and the more I work with it that admiration only grows. I just want evolution in the API, not revolution.
Facebook is... + read on
In January I released the first commercial add-on I’d developed for ExpressionEngine. It’s called Pic Puller and it helps an ExpressionEngine developer create and integrate an Instagram application into his or her site.
This post isn’t meant to get you to go buy a copy of the Pic Puller add-on. (Granted, I won’t stop you either.) Rather, it’s a personal journal of my process of making it and what I’ve learned along the way. It may be a bit... + read on
I’ve got a small little Expression Engine add on., but it might be helpful if you use Pixel and Tonic’s WYGWAM to give your client’s text entry into an Expression Engine textfield a little UX love.
WYGWAM’s a good tool that I’ve used several times on sites. Clients find it an easy thing to pick up. For a recent build though, I kept noticing some strange spacing when my client was using it to create copy. There were empty P tag pairs scattered... + read on
I've been working on an Expression Engine site recently where I needed to truncate some HTML to fit within a certain sized space.
I've done similar truncations tasks before, right here on the SuperGeekery home page, with Oliver Heine's handy TruncHTML. I use it in combination with my own SuperGeekery Tagstripper to selectively strip out some of the HTML tags. (On a side note, it looks like Hacksaw has now combined these functions to some extent... + read on
A quick adendum to this post: Facebook has once again changed the API. As of July 12, 2011, you can no longer set the 'message' part of the status message. The lack of a message prompt makes the app we build here a little pointless, but not entirely. You can still set the image, the caption, and other pieces of information that will accompany a user's status message, but the message content itself is no longer able to be prompted by you as the... + read on
I recently worked on a project for a client who wanted to allow a user to view and print a number of recipes directly from a Flash banner. There were all the other ways of interacting with the recipes as well, like emailing, sharing on Facebook, and sharing on Twitter. (I don't go into those other thing in this post, but you can find me talking about how to do things like that elsewhere on SuperGeekery.)
Additionally, the client wanted these... + read on
I recently had to set up an MX record for a client and although I’ve set them up before, it suddenly made sense to me in a way that it hadn’t before. Perhaps my story will help someone else have a similar epiphany.
Basic name server set up.
My client had their site and their mail all handled by the same serving company. This meant their name server records were basic. There were 3 entries and that was it. All traffic to their domain used the... + read on
You may have already checked my post Setting Facebook Status with Flash (The Easy Way). As the name implies, that’s the easy way to prompt a user to update their status. That version basically calls a special Facebook URL from Flash that prompt a user with suggested text in the status window that they can edit before they post. That method is useful for many situations. It's a lightweight and very simple to code.
But why do things the easy... + read on
We recently updated the brick breaker game on the homepage of JMX2.com to use the Facebook API for Flash. Basically, if you want to share your score, the game will let you post your score to your wall on Facebook. It can do this because the game is a register Facebook application.
It was all going well until I tested the game in Google Chrome on the Mac. (At the time I write this, Google Chrome was at 10.0.648.127.) The embedded Flash movie... + read on