Archive for the ‘Web Development’ Category
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Microsoft Web Developer’s Summit 2009
Posted on December 5, 2009 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL, Web Development
I had the opportunity this week to go out to Redmond, Washington to attend the Microsoft Web Developer’s Summit at the MS headquarters. For this summit, about 25 leaders in the PHP (and PHP project) community were invited out to sit down with members of the MS product development teams and provide critical, honest feedback [...]
Web 2-Point-Owned: Apple.Com’s XSS Exploit
Posted on November 3, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
Earlier today, we got a glimpse of what happens when a big company forgets to cross their t’s and dot their i’s. And in programming, that means failing to validate user-entered data before displaying it on-screen.
Big Changes to the Facebook Platform
Posted on October 29, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
Last night, during a webcast, Facebook announced some upcoming significant changes to the Facebook platform. Most are good, a few may be frustrating, but here they are. These changes will start to be rolled out in November & December and will continue into the first and second quarter of 2010.
Trying Out Disqus
Posted on October 23, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
I’ve decided to move the comment system on Snipe.Net over to Disqus. I like it so far, but I’ve run into a few glitches and challenges that I thought I’d share with you. (Also, it explains why things may look funny here for a few days while I work out the display kinks.)
Extending Facebook Static FBML Tabs with Dynamic Content
Posted on October 17, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
This tutorial walks you through how to use DynamicFBML to do simple content replacement that will allow you to fit more content into your tabs. You can create image or video galleries, or even an entire micro-site inside your Static FBML tab without a lot of complicated scripting.
Funky characters in HTML mail using PHPMailer
Posted on October 10, 2009 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL, Web Development
While working on a client project, I ended up having to send HTML email notifications to users. During testing, I discovered some stray characters at the beginning of the email.
PHP Regex to Make Twitter Links Clickable
Posted on September 10, 2009 by snipe in PHP/mySQL, Web Development
This is just a quicky post, not one of my usual long, rambling diatribes. This week is madness, even by my own absurd standards, but I didn’t want to miss jotting this down in case it might be helpful to others.
Writing Your First Twitter Application with OAuth
Posted on July 23, 2009 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL, Web Development
If you’re interested in writing a web-based Twitter application but aren’t sure where to start, the Twitter OAuth library from Abraham Wiliams makes authenticating with OAuth and Twitter a breeze.
Static FBML: Not Every Facebook Fan Page Needs An Application
Posted on June 26, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
You don’t always need a custom application for your Facebook fan page to look amazing. Save yourself time and money by using the Static FBML application instead.
Changes to Facebook’s Newsfeed/Wall
Posted on April 30, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
With the most recent API changes, specifically the one that changed the way fan pages behave so that they look and behave more like Facebook user profiles, Facebook also made a significant change in how newsfeeds work in applications.
%$#^%$* Facebook Application Tabs
Posted on April 30, 2009 by snipe in Web Development
So this is new. And by new I mean painfully similar to the types of major functionality bugs we see every time there is a large-scale functionality change in Facebook.
