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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
Returns the current allocation limits for your application for the specified integration points. Allocation limits are determined daily. Integration points include:
For some weeks now, users may have noticed that when they receive a private email from a Facebook application they get something like:
“This email was sent by xyz application. You can disable emails here.”
According to a news published by Tom Whitnah from Facebook, the rate at which users disable email from within an email […]
I found on gathadams.com this nice tutorial will help you to develop an application like a guess game in only 10 minutes
Ready to start the chrono ?
So here are the headers:
1. Create your demo page. (it should take 2 minutes)
2. Install the Developer Application. (it should take 1 minute)
3. Create the Application. (it should take […]
Facebook has updated the Facebook JavaScript Client library last Tuesday.
The news features include:
- The delay loading of JavaScript files inf FJSC (Facebook JavaScript Client): this will ensure that your application always loads the most current FJSC. For more information, see the Facebook JavaScript Client Library
- New CanvasUtil: this will allow applications developers to set […]
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On the 6th of March, Facebook decided to give some answer about 16 questions. They plan to release the updated profile to their users in early April, 2008.
Following are the 14 changes or non-changes associated to these questions:
1. Facebook applications won’t appear in the narrow column by default, users will have to do it […]
