Monthly Archives November 2007

DiscountASP.NET Removes Community Server Advertisements

I wrote a few weeks ago about how DiscountASP.NET and Community Server don’t mix as a result of some of DiscountASP.NET’s memory management limits and the naturally memory footprint of Community Server 2007.
Eric, a representative from DiscountASP.NET’s marketing department left a comment on my previous entry with the following information:
The older versions of CS used [...]

Facebook.NET Hacks – How to Publish an Item on a User’s Feed

Developing Facebook applications is a trying and frustrating experience for many developers, myself included. My most recent frustration was getting an item to publish to the user’s mini-feed/friend’s newsfeed using Facebook.NET.
Publishing frustrations aren’t isolated to just Facebook.NET; they extend to a lot of Facebook.NET developers out there. Here’s what I’ve learned about how to [...]

A Stroke of StumbleUpon Irony…

I put together a massive resource list encompassing a large spectrum of the StumbleUpon tips and tricks last week. I knew it would take off like hot cakes on StumbleUpon, were it not for one crucial mistake.
I didn’t self-submit my article because I wanted to take the “high road”
I’ve talked about avoiding self-submitting your own [...]

AjaxNinja Mentioned in Monster.com’s Tech Career Advice Column

I was asked a couple of questions by Allan Hoffman, the “tech jobs expert” at Monster.com, regarding Facebook application development for his piece, “So You Wanna Be a Facebook App Development Star?”. It’s a great read if you’re looking for a great introduction to Facebook applications, and towards the end Allan uses a quote by [...]

Facebook.NET Workaround – Debug FBML on the Localhost with Dynamic DNS

Just a quick post for today, but a valuable one nonetheless. I have mentioned before how I prefer developing Facebook.NET applications using the Iframe method of implementation, namely because I didn’t think it was possible to debug FBML implementations on the localhost.
Cameron, an AjaxNinja reader, found the following comment on Nikhil’s blog, which explains how [...]

How to Use Diagramming to Easily Organize and Plan Projects

Software professionals often use diagramming to help explicate their ideas to other technical and non-technical people involved in a project; they’re also often used by the developers themselves to help them inexpensively model their applications on paper before they sit down and spend considerable time developing the actual application.
I’m going to walk through a typical [...]

50+ Resources for Utilizing StumbleUpon Effectively

I’ve written before about how it annoys me that it takes a lot of time and effort to develop powerful social media accounts. However, one of my friends is trying to learn how to use StumbleUpon in order to help promote his humor blog, so I set out to gather some resources to help him [...]

So we wanted a middleware for social networks? Google OpenSocial is just that.

While I’ve been a bit behind on my buzz tapping for the week, I have been paying some attention to Google’s OpenSocial technology, which appears to be an implementation of the web 2.0 middleware concept that I described a couple of a weeks ago.
This technology may solve the “eggs in one basket” problem for web [...]