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How a Facebook app can change its own tab name

The mysterious admin.setAppProperties holds all the secrets.

How to determine who installed your Facebook app in a tab

As any Facebook developer knows, Facebook has some restrictive ideas about permissions and what apps should be allowed to do on your behalf or even know about you. One consequence of this is that Facebook avoids giving you any information about the user who is interacting with your app in ...

The evils of fb:tabs

The and FBML tags are very handy to use in your Facebook apps if you want to maintain the Facebook appearance. Unfortunately, they also have weird target behavior that causes the user to leave your application’s frame - if it’s an FBML canvas tab app, and you want ...

Incoming: Facebook App Developer tips

I’m doing a lot of Facebook App development lately, and I’m finding the internet to be sorely lacking in good resources for a lot of this stuff. So on this blog in the coming weeks I’m going to feature a few tips for the greater good of the web.

The dog that funk built

Editor’s note: This is actually a very old post, from around May of 2005 if I recall. I’m making it live now because it was too painful to make live before, but the attic needs to be swept out from time to time. I’m writing this even though Coco St. ...

Secure browser sessions by proxying through SSH

Download Putty and Puttygen Run Puttygen Create a private key; save it somewhere on your harddrive. Don’t bother with encrypting/passwording it. Copy the public key (shown in the box) with Ctrl-C Login to the server you want to proxy through, as normal, with Putty Edit .ssh/authorized_keys - you may have to create the .ssh folder Paste ...

Birds are smart

The complex intellect of ravens has me rethinking my recent dietary changes to be more morality-compliant. I gave up red meat but kept chicken, and I’m starting to think I may have to axe the fowl entirely. Dohhh.

Goodbye, Digg

I don’t need you selling your users to your sponsors over a few hex digits. Reddit has a better algorithm anyway. Oh, and 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0.

FreeBSD users having trouble with pecl?

For a while I’ve had sporadic problems with pecl (PHP’s binary module building tool, part of PEAR) not working properly. Usually the error was: [root@host ~]# pecl install memcache Fatal error: Call to undefined function preg_match() in /usr/local/share/pear/PEAR/Frontend/CLI.php on line 70 Yet, preg_match() would work from other scripts - it is part of ...

World’s Fastest Hummer H1

Check out this Hummer running the quarter mile in 12.8 seconds: