On November 14th @ the Tempe Center for the Arts Terralever hosted Phoenix’s first Facebook Developer’s Garage. The event was a great success.  I especially enjoyed the presentations by Chris Johnson  of Terralever and Dave Morin of Facebook. I encourage everyone to look at Chris slides on marketing a Facebook application. For those of you who might be interested [...]

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Maybe its just a temporary thing, but lately the Facebook server has had major issues with caching images.  If you are unaware, all images that are placed within a users profile page get scraped by Facebook and served up from their own internal servers.  If for some unforeseen reason there scraper fails your image gets replaced with [...]

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This past week Facebook added a new method on their REST server for sending news and mini feed stories. The method is “feed.publishTemplatizedAction” and the intent of this method is to replace the existing “feed.publishActionOfUser” with a method that is more “templatized”. Here is a sample we created which is a combination of static text [...]

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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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