Category Archives: General

Next stop San Francisco

Posted on September 18, 2011 by

In just a few days I’m moving to San Francisco! I’m insanely excited, both about moving to the city and that next month I’ll officially become an employee of Rapportive, Inc. If you’ve never heard of Rapportive, you should check … Continue reading →

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Leveling up in San Francisco

Posted on April 12, 2011 by

During the last few weeks I’ve been ‘levelling up’ in San Francisco and getting to know the city better. With Bex I’ve been eating, drinking and touristing all across the city with serious emphasis on the eating. Here are a … Continue reading →

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Fun with FBJS: “Can’t find variable: a43014453287_slider”

Posted on January 14, 2009 by

I’ve been trying to get a slider bar working recently as part of a facebook application. To get the example on the Facebook wiki working out-of-the-box was no problem. The problems came when I wanted to create the slider bar … Continue reading →

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The social networks of tomorrow

Posted on November 16, 2008 by

Ning is pants. Google groups are pretty pants. Each offer a useful set of limited features, but if you’re trying to create a dynamic community, your creativity will hit the limits of their capabilities fairly quickly. What should a complete … Continue reading →

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Jack and the (subversion controlled) Beanstalk

Posted on February 16, 2008 by

As a developer, have you ever wanted to banish your fears of hard disk failure and stupid mistakes in one easy step? Did you ever consider that using a hosted version control system could do just that? It’s long been … Continue reading →

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7 essential planning tips when developing your application on Facebook Platform

Posted on February 11, 2008 by

Once you have come up with a great idea for a Facebook application, seeing an idea all the way through its implementation can be a tricky business. Once you’ve figured out how the application is supposed to work, your design … Continue reading →

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Be strict with your FBML for Facebook notifications

Posted on February 4, 2008 by

UPDATE: Facebook have completely discontinued support for notifications. The Facebook platform can be a very restrictive mistress at times. The documentation for sending notifications states: “The notification parameter is a very stripped-down set of FBML which allows only tags that … Continue reading →

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