Facebook News: Hackathon

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If you like late-night Chinese food, Red Bull, Office Ripstik races and Rock Band Jam sessions, this f8 hackathon is just for you.
You might also contribute to build the facebook platform of tomorrow:
“Hackathon is an all-night-long hack session that gives every Facebook engineer a chance to work on that awesome feature they’ve been meaning to […]

Facebook News: The Improved Profile - Part IV

Facebook development is still in ebullition.
After the previous announcement of Facebook profile improvements in February, some of these improvements where confirmed last week.
These confirmed improvements concern:
1/ New feed stories: feed tab is front-and-center on users’ profiles (feed stories is going to continue to be a primary way users express themselves),  three sizes of stories […]

Facebook Developers news: No More Support For the Official Java Client Library.

Since yesterday, Facebook does not support the official JCL anymore.
James Leszczenski wrote:
“…,there has a great deal of enthusiasm regarding Platform application development in a huge array of programming languages, resulting in the creation of numerous unofficial client libraries.”
and “To this end, we have decided to discontinue support for our official Java client library, and […]

Facebook Tutorial: Python for Facebook or PyFacebook tutorial

In this tutorial provided by the facebook developers website, you will learn to use the pyfacebook interface which is a Python interface to the Facebook API.
 
When uploaded and installed, you just need to the call the new interface in your scripts by adding a line at the top of your script like:
import facebook
And you […]

Facebook News: Adobe Flash Player Updates May Affect Facebook Applications

At the beginning of this month, Adobe informed Facebook that their new security update (planned for April 2008) can potentially break Facebook platform applications that use Flash.
 
You should be concerned if you are in one of the following situations:
- You use sockets or XMLSockets
- You use addRequestHeader or URLRequest.requestHeaders
- You provide access to content on […]

FAcebook Methods: fb.captcha

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You can now secure your application from automated scipting attacks by using fb.captcha.
It
renders a CAPTCHA on your canvas page inside of a form. When that form is submitted to a canvas page, your callback URL will be called with the additional POST parameter fb_sig_captcha_grade=1 to indicate a successfully completed CAPTCHA.
Example:
Just put this code on […]

Facebook Methods description: marketplace.search

Will search the logged in users’s networks for listings matching the category, subcategory, and query provided.

Facebook Methods description: photos.upload

Uploads a photo owned by the current session user and returns the new photo. See photo uploads for a description of the upload workflow. The only storable values returned from this call are pid, aid, and owner.

Facebook Methods description: photos.createAlbum

Creates and returns a new album owned by the current session user. See photo uploads for a description of the upload workflow. The only storable values returned from this call are aid and owner.

Facebook Methods description: photos.addTag

Adds a tag with the given information to a photo. See photo uploads for a description of the upload workflow.