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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Facebook is stretching their limits of their social reach beyond the web, and onto your iphone. Now, custom apps can be facebook aware, and allow for iphone owners to log-in to facebook, leveraging the facebook connect service. For those of you who are not familiar with facebook connect, the original offering was web based only; conceived sometime last year and it allowed any web site to have some user integration with facebook, while allowing access to it's social features via it's API and proprietary markup language. Now with an iPhone offering, it gives the user more reason to stay on the very popular social
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Monday, February 23, 2009
Last week, Facebook released it's new Comment Box social widget which allows a developer to add threaded comment functionality to any site they want. It literally took me less than 5 minutes to slap it all together; and maybe if I didn't read stop to read all the itty bitty details, it probably would of taken me half that time. I must say, I'm pretty impressed -- it integrates well with my own site, and it looks slick. Facebook's widget allows allows for anonymous comments, so you don't necessarily need to be facebook user in order to submit your 2 cents. So wow, I'm
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Friday, December 12, 2008
For those who have never used the TinyMCE WYSIWYG pluggin, it's one of the industry's best kept secret; add this pluggin to your website, and you've got an instant Microsoft Word-like interface that supports pretty much all the different browsers and it's variations. Some of the things I've taken advantage of include creating custom toolbar buttons and leveraging their compressor paradigm to keep the scripts lightweight. Pretty neat indeed. Now with that said, I've come across one issue which wasn't very clear initially on how to solve, because it had long been a bug since it's predecessor versions; I was
