For those of you who have embarked on writing a Facebook app, you may have faced the challenge of how to automatically update your profile fbml without forcing a user to take action. The approach I have found most effective is to use the <fbml:ref> tag. Facebook defines this command as a tag which “fetches [...]

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For the recent Facebook platform integration project I was tasked with parsing various forms of Xml returned from the Facebook REST web service. REST or Representational State Transfer, is a term coined by Roy Fielding in his Ph.D. dissertation to describe an architecture style of networked systems. In the Facebook world, to get back some [...]

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Last night I was tasked with extracting some data from an unbootable Windows XP desktop. Now I know there is hardware out there that would have allowed me to pull the hard drive and mount it on another PC, but my goal was to mount the computer from a bootable CD or USB drive. What [...]

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