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Desert Code Camp

Here, finally is the post for Desert Code Camp that I promised to make available. First off, thanks to everyone who attended my session on Integrating Facebook Connect. Secondly, please feel free to ask me questions via email, Twitter, or by commenting here.
Please feel free to download the source code. For each file in the [...]

Read the full article → November 6, 2009

Facebook Connect comments as WordPress plugin

My article Integrating Facebook Connect using the Thesis theme has generated a great deal of interest and several requests for a WordPress plugin. I personally haven’t had the time or inclination to create a plugin, but my friend and colleague Aaron Collegeman has. He was interested in the concept for one of his projects and [...]

Read the full article → August 14, 2009

Doing more at once

I’ve been doing a lot of work with curl_multi in PHP lately because it just makes sense to do as much work in parallel as possible (in most cases). I’ll be writing up my experiences with curl_multi later.
So, yesterday’s announcement by the Facebook development team about fql.multiquery couldn’t have come at a better time for [...]

Read the full article → June 17, 2009

Use Twitter, Facebook, OAuth or OpenID for login?

Now that OAuth is officially available for accessing the Twitter API, it’s technically possible to use Twitter’s services as an authentication method for logging into your web site. In fact, when setting up a new Twitter OAuth application, there’s an option suggesting that very use.

This is not a new concept, but with the recent proliferation [...]

Read the full article → April 22, 2009

Publishing to Facebook using Facebook Connect

In order to get a frame of reference for this post, you’ll need to read Integrating Facebook Connect using the Thesis theme. That article briefly describes the method for creating a new Facebook Connect application and the files required to set up the basic framework for a Facebook Connect integrated site.
Assuming your site is ready [...]

Read the full article → April 1, 2009

Geeking out

I’ve enjoyed geeking out the past few days, but the example I wanted to show today is taking longer than I had expected, so I have to delay that one. I’m going to do more mini-tutorials and examples over the next few weeks, so stay tuned.
If you’re new to this site, please take a look [...]

Read the full article → March 26, 2009

Integrating Facebook Connect using the Thesis theme

Propeller-head alert! This is a very technical article.
I’ve received a number of questions about how I integrated Facebook Connect with my blog, so I thought I’d go ahead and explain exactly how I did it. I’m still working on making a very simple open-source Wordpress plugin that does the same thing, but you should be [...]

Read the full article → March 16, 2009

Don’t reinvent the wheel

As a programmer I’ve heard the phrase “don’t reinvent the wheel” dozens (if not hundreds) of times in my career. It’s generally a reference to reusing existing source code to perform routine, well-defined programming tasks — stuff like sorting, searching, parsing and much more.
Within the past few years, however, the scope of what can be [...]

Read the full article → March 4, 2009

No man is an island

No man is an island, but your web site … it might be. Technically your web site is supposed to be a part of the grand interconnectedness of the web. You’ve done the SEO, provided great outgoing links and you’ve even built a few doorway pages to help people find your site. But they’re still [...]

Read the full article → February 23, 2009